LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has issued $800 million to Arkansas in Fiscal Year 2025 funding for 12 formula programs.
Transportation heads in the Natural State will soon have more flexibility to proceed with ongoing efforts in rebuilding roads and bridges in a more efficient manner.
“With over 60,000 projects funded through our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we continue to deliver on the decades-long promise to invest in American infrastructure,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “The $62 billion the Biden-Harris Administration announced today will help communities in Arkansas continue to rebuild roads and bridges, implement new and innovative transportation solutions, strengthen our supply chains, and create good-paying jobs nationwide.”
Since the construction of the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s and 1960s, this is the single largest investment in American transportation infrastructure, according to the United States Department of Transportation.
For Fiscal Year 2025, an $18.8 billion increase has been reported in formula programs, compared to Fiscal Year 2021 which was the last fiscal year before the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was enacted.
“The Biden Harris Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was signed into law less than three years ago, and yet we are in the midst of an infrastructure decade celebrating historic funding investments to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico,” said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Kristin White. “These investments keep Americans safer, promote efficiency, advance our climate goals, and spur technological innovation. This funding also creates good-paying, high-skilled jobs and helps to reconnect communities, improving the lives of every American.”
The Federal Highway Administration administers the distribution of funding annually, based on formulas mandated by Congress.
Through multi-year laws, Congress authorizes the Federal-aid Highway Program to aid the states in construction projects and refine highways and bridges on eligible Federal-aid.
Within the Federal-aid Highway Program, new programs and recently expanded existing programs were created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The notable programs that will receive funding are listed below:
- National Highway Performance Program – $408,954,688
- Surface Transportation Block Grant – $198,950,929
- Highway Safety Improvement Program – $42,265,139
- Railway-Highway Crossings Program – $4,109,318
- Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Program – $14,238,373
- Metropolitan Planning – $2,405,273
- National Highway Freight Program – $19,054,544
- Carbon Reduction Program – $17,739,791
- PROTECT Formula Program – $20,171,414
- National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program – $11,527,793
- Bridge Formula Program – $60,161,625
For more information about grants, other discretionary funding opportunities, and also information on new existing FHWA programs, clickhere.