GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— The U.S. Division of Transportation’s Federal Freeway Administration (FHWA) right this moment introduced $130.5 million in federal grants for seven initiatives underneath FHWA’s Nationally Important Federal Lands and Tribal Transportation Tasks Program. The grants, introduced at an occasion on the Grand Canyon Nationwide Park, acknowledge transportation initiatives of nationwide significance that serve Federal and Tribal lands. FHWA additionally introduced functions are open for the subsequent spherical of funding via this program.

These grants are a part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to develop the American economic system from the underside up and middle-out — from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to creating a producing and innovation growth powered by good-paying jobs that don’t require a four-year diploma, to constructing a clean-energy economic system that can fight local weather change and make our communities extra resilient.

“Below President Biden’s management, we’re delivering infrastructure enhancements on Federal and Tribal lands that communities have wanted for many years,” mentioned U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “With right this moment’s announcement, we’re making it simpler for Individuals to entry a few of our biggest pure wonders, and enhancing street security in Tribal communities, which face a number of the highest charges of visitors deaths within the nation.”

“FHWA is proud to award these grants that can assist make journey safer and supply extra gratifying entry to key locations that assist native residents, enterprise and guests,” mentioned Federal Freeway Administrator Shailen Bhatt. “From the Grand Canyon in Arizona to Chincoteague Nationwide Wildlife Refuge in Virginia, these initiatives will assist tackle the local weather disaster and make an enormous distinction within the security and high quality of life for surrounding communities and a whole lot of hundreds of holiday makers to our nation’s Federal parks and wildlife refuges.”

The grant recipients introduced right this moment are as follows:

• The Nationwide Park Service will obtain $27.5 million for the Grand Canyon Nationwide Park Shuttle Bus Fleet Alternative undertaking in Arizona. The undertaking contains the acquisition of 30 new buses, together with 10 new battery electrical buses and 20 new compressed pure fuel (CNG) buses to interchange the present getting older fleet and set up of charging infrastructure to assist the electrical buses.
• The North Carolina Division of Transportation will obtain $21.4 million to assemble the Ecusta Rail Path between the Metropolis of Hendersonville and the Metropolis of Brevard, which can join the statewide bike route system with Pisgah Nationwide Forest and the Blue Ridge Parkway close to Asheville. The undertaking contains building and completion of your complete Ecusta Rail Path, an 18.8-mile shared-use path on an deserted railroad route that can join the county seats of Henderson and Transylvania Counties in Western North Carolina to Pisgah Nationwide Forest.
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will obtain $17.7 million to start enhancements of Multimodal Seashore Entry at Chincoteague Nationwide Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. The award will provoke the primary part of a bigger undertaking in partnership with the Nationwide Park Service and Assateague Island Nationwide Seashore that can permit for the relocation of the present public leisure seaside to a extra secure a part of the island. Building will embrace a brand new entry street, a multiuse path and parts of recent parking tons and different seaside services which are higher in a position to stand up to excessive climate occasions.
• The County of Tooele, Utah, will obtain $8.3 million for the Ibapah Street Security and Rehabilitation Venture in Utah. The undertaking will present important mobility and security enhancements alongside 35 miles of a rural freeway that’s the principal route connecting the Confederated Tribes of Goshute Reservation with items, companies and faculties in Utah and Nevada.
• The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe in Montana will obtain $30.5 million to fund the primary part of the U.S. 93 roadway enchancment undertaking from Dublin Gulch to Gunlock Street, together with a brand new multi-span bridge over Ninepipes Reservoir. The undertaking will present essential security enhancements to U.S. 93, which offers crucial entry to companies, recreation and financial alternatives for the Flathead Indian Reservation. The undertaking may also embrace a separated, shared-use path.
• The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada will obtain $11.9 million for building of the Wadsworth Bypass Street (Indian Route 35), a brand new street that can assist convey freeway visitors away from residential areas throughout the group of Wadsworth. The undertaking will enhance journey situations and entry to Interstate 80, scale back visitors congestion and enhance security on a route that helps each gold and silver mining pursuits in addition to offers entry to the annual Burning Man competition which attracts hundreds of holiday makers every year.
• The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma will obtain $12.9 million for the Cherokee Nation Mud Valley Street Reconstruction undertaking, which can make enhancements to the street throughout the Cherokee Nation Reservation, together with including shoulders, changing three bridges and enhancing the road of sight at an present intersection by developing security countermeasures.

Extra details about the supply of $88.29 million in FY 2023 funds will be discovered within the Discover of Funding Alternative. Data on how one can apply is accessible at Grants.gov.

Courtesy of U.S. Division of Transportation.

Featured picture courtesy of Proterra.

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