Maine to Get $1B in IIJA Funds for Internet, Other Projects - Government Technology

November 17, 2022 • 

(TNS) — Maine is acceptable to person astir $1 cardinal with much than 80 circumstantial projects identified for backing nether the $1.2 trillion national Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Here's the breakdown of backing announced to day arsenic portion of the $2 cardinal the authorities is expected to get nether the bipartisan measurement passed by Congress past year.

$711 cardinal for roads, bridges and roadway information projects: That includes $494 cardinal for highways and $90 cardinal for bridges this twelvemonth and next. That includes $77 cardinal for the Presque Isle corridor project, which includes completing the 2nd signifier of a commercialized two-lane bypass of Route 1.

$100 cardinal for high-speed Internet crossed the state: So far, astir 59,000 households successful Maine retired of 221,000 eligible for the Affordable Connectivity Program are enrolled. That cuts Internet bills by up to $30 per period oregon $75 connected tribal lands, and has a one-time $100 discount disconnected of a connected device.

$69.5 cardinal to supply cleanable and harmless h2o and amended h2o infrastructure: Almost each of the total, disposable this fiscal year, is done the Environmental Protection Agency, with $28.4 cardinal of that dedicated to pb tube and work enactment replacement and $18 cardinal for harmless drinking h2o investments.

$47.6 cardinal for nationalist transit infrastructure improvements this fiscal year, with $251 cardinal implicit 5 years: Nonwhite households are doubly much apt to commute utilizing nationalist transportation. Some 28 percent of transit vehicles successful Maine are past their utile life.

$37.6 cardinal for cleanable energy, ratio and powerfulness this year: Of that, $31.2 cardinal is for weatherization, $3.7 cardinal is done the authorities vigor programme and $2.7 cardinal is to forestall outages and marque the powerfulness grid much resilient.

$29 cardinal for airports successful 2022 to regenerate oregon modernize infrastructure. That includes $14 cardinal for the Bangor International Airport terminal expansion.

$20 cardinal to repair oregon reimagine ports and waterways infrastructure.

$20 cardinal to cleanable up Superfund and brownfield sites.

$15 cardinal for infrastructure resilience projects successful 2022 to grip the effects of clime alteration and utmost weather: Maine experienced 3 utmost storms successful the past decennary costing the authorities up to $100 cardinal successful damages. The Sabattus River Restoration task volition get $350,000 to trim the interaction of flooding.

$13.3 cardinal for the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Bus Program: The Wells-Ogunquit Community School District was awarded much than $4 cardinal successful rebates to regenerate existing schoolhouse buses with electrical ones.

$7 cardinal this twelvemonth and adjacent to physique a web of electrical conveyance chargers crossed the state, with $19 cardinal successful backing implicit 5 years.

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