USDOT Issues $4.9B in Infrastructure Project Grants

AASHTO January 26, 2024

The Mega program – created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act or IIJA – provides $5 billion in funding through 2026 to support projects that are “uniquely large, complex and difficult to fund” under traditional grant programs, according to USDOT.

For this round of Mega funding awards, the agency issued grants to 11 different projects that seek to generate national and regional economic, mobility, and safety benefits.  

Concurrently, the INFRA program – which garnered a 50 percent increase in funding due to the IIJA – also funds large scale “transformational” infrastructure projects. For this funding round, USDOT issued grants to 28 projects that aim to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas.

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