State Secretary Of Transportation Aims For Flexible Highway Bill

News 9

By Alex Cameron

March 3, 2022

WASHINGTON - Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation Tim Gatz is upbeat about the impact of the new highway bill, which is part of President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure law, as long as it gives the state some flexibility in how and where the funds are used.

Gatz returned from meetings in Washington D.C. where he and other state transportation officials were briefed on the much-celebrated bill.

“This is my seventh highway bill,” Gatz said in an interview Tuesday, “so not the first time around, but this one’s a little bit unusual because it got rolled up into that bigger infrastructure package.”

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as the law is formally known, includes approximately $550 billion in new funding.

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