TEXAS (KXAN) — Texas will receive more than $5 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law this fiscal year to aid in transportation improvements, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration announced Tuesday.
The Lone Star State received $5.69 billion for fiscal year 2024-25, out of $62 billion distributed across all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Funding allocated to Texas “will provide transportation leaders the flexibility to continue rebuilding roads and bridges and making their transportation system more efficient reflecting the state’s particular needs,” per the release.
Texas’ piece of the funding pie will include financial assistance to the following programs:
National Highway Performance Program: $3.01 billion
The program offers included support for the conditions and performances of roadways within the National Highway System, as well as the construction of new facilities
Surface Transportation Block Grant: $1.47 billion
The program uses include preserving and enhancing conditions of federal-aid highways, bridges and tunnel projects on public roads, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure and transit capital projects like intercity bus terminals
Highway Safety Improvement Program: $320.6 million
The program is centered around data-driven and strategic efforts to minimize traffic fatalities and serious injuries on public roads
Railway-Highway Crossings Program: $21.3 million
The program funding centers around removing hazards and increasing safety at public railway-highway crossings to minimize fatalities and serious injuries
Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Improvement Program: $201.8 million
Funding allocated to states for projects aimed at minimizing traffic congestion and improving air quality
Metropolitan Planning: $36.3 million
Funding provided to metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), which represent “localities in all urbanized areas” with populations surpassing 50,000 people
National Highway Freight Program: $143.6 million
The program centers on infrastructure investments and improvements to freight movement
Carbon Reduction Program: $130.8 million
The program funds projects designed to decrease transportation emissions (i.e. carbon dioxide emissions) from “on-road highway sources”
PROTECT Formula Program: $148.7 million
The program works to make surface transportation “more resilient to natural hazards, including climate change, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters”
National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program: $86.9 million
Funding allocated to states to install and deploy electric vehicle charging stations and infrastructure
Bridge Formula Program: $115.4 million
The program focused around replacing, updating, preserving, protecting and constructing highway bridges
“With over 60,000 projects funded through our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we continue to deliver on the decades-long promise to invest in American infrastructure,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in the announcement. “The $62 billion the Biden-Harris Administration announced today will help communities in Texas continue to rebuild roads and bridges, implement new and innovative transportation solutions, strengthen our supply chains, and create good-paying jobs nationwide.”
President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) in November 2021. That law outlined a $550 billion investment from fiscal years 2022 to 2026 to construct new infrastructure — including roads, bridges, mass transit, water infrastructure and broadband connectivity.
More details on the program are available online.