Final measure include new $5.3-billion, five-year airport grant program for rural, nonhub airports.

Lawmakers criticize proposed reduction of $2 billion, or 29%, from 2018 level.

Appropriators zero in on transit capital grants, which got a 10% hike in the 2018 omnibus spending measure.

DOT, EPA, Corps, other agencies sign memo calling for single federal approval for projects.

Specialty trade contractors lost 16,200 positions, heavy-civil sector down by 3,600, BLS reports.

Now that a 2018 spending bill with a $21-billion hike for infrastructure programs is on the books, it looks like further public-works legislating will come in targeted bills, not a wide-ranging one.