AGC, ARTBA, ACEC, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other groups target the 2021 guidance document on how states should prioritize IIJA highway funding.

Veteran Missouri lawmaker Sam Graves takes the transportation and Infrastructure panel gavel

All sectors of the industry posted jobs' increases, led by nonresidential specialty contractors.

Awards are the first of the IIJA bridge program's large project grants to go out.

Largest allocation is $100M for the upgrade and expansion of a border station in Arizona.

The grants went to projects in 12 states. U.S. DOT says it received applications totaling more than $10 billion, far more than the approximately $300 million it had available.

As the 117th Congress headed into its final days, infrastructure advocates scored another legislative victory with bipartisan congressional approval of a new Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA, authorizing $37.8 in federal funds for 30 new or modified U.S. Army Corps of Engineers storm protection, harbor dredging and other civil-works projects.

Dept. of Defense construction is a big winner in the proposed spending package, up 28% to $19B.

Fatal construction accidents were down about 2% overall in 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, but some types of construction accidents saw worrying increases.

The formal challenge takes issue with a December 2021 guidance document from FHWA on how states might use the billions of federal highway formula dollars provided by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.