US DOT Provides $15.6M More for Skagit River Bridge Repairs

Mendez also said the project is the first to use an environmental streamlining provision contained in last year’s Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21^st Century Act (MAP-21). That provision allows an emergency road or bridge project to be categorically excluded from National Environmental Policy Act requirements, thus speeding up the work.

Tom Ichniowski has been writing about the federal government as ENR’s Washington Bureau Chief since the George H.W. Bush administration, and he has covered at least five major highway bills. A recognized expert on government policy on infrastructure and regulation, Tom is also a Baltimore native and Orioles fan who grew up rooting for Brooks and Frank Robinson. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s graduate school of journalism, where he once used “unrelentless” in a headline.