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A Worthy Alphabet Soup
| 题名： | A Worthy Alphabet Soup |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | David Cullen |
| 摘要： | IT'S GREAT TO be flooded with funding for roads and bridges, even if you must risk drowning in acronyms to get it flowing your way. The monumental trillion-dollar Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) act has so many projects to delineate that the U.S. Dept. of Transportation is cooking up some serious alphabet soup to spell them all out. Enter the "Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation" (PROTECT) funding program. That's a mouthful and a good example of the myriad ways that IIJA will deliver high-calorie solutions to improve specific infrastructure shortcomings. PROTECT earmarks $7.3 billion in formula and competitive grant funding over five years to help states and communities better prepare for and respond to extreme weather events, such as wildfires, flooding, and extreme heat. According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), this program aims to make surface transportation "more resilient to natural hazards, including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters through support of planning activities, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk costal infrastructure." FHWA will allocate this funding as a lump sum for each state, and then divide that total among apportioned programs. The contract authority is from the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund and subject to the overall federal-aid obligation limitation. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Roads & bridges |
| 卷： | 61 |
| 期： | 3 |
| 页码： | 6-6 |
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