Road Funding Boosted in Appropriations Bill
A House appropriations subcommittee granted the Department of Transportation another $605 million for 2001, boosting DOT’s overall spending plan to $55.2 billion, or about $5.2 billion over 2000.
The 1998 TEA authorized federal programs for highways, highway safety, and transit through 2003. It earmarked $27.87 billion for highway projects in 2001.
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For highways, the House proposal increases spending by 7% from the current level, from $28.8 billion in to $30.7 billion.
“As far as what the numbers look like they seem to fulfill all the [spending] requirements as laid out in the Transportation Equity Act and the Aviation Improvement Reform Act,” a spokesman for the House Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee said in reference to goals of the current highway spending authorization. The committee was concerned that some projects might not get funded, the spokesman said May 10.
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