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Legislative Update - FAST Act

12/11/2015

 
Early last week, Congress passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, the first long-term transportation bill in 10 years. President Obama signed the bill into law on Friday, December 4.
 
The FAST Act is a five-year legislation to improve the Nation’s surface transportation infrastructure, including our roads, bridges, transit systems, and rail transportation network. The bill reforms and strengthens transportation programs, refocuses on national priorities, provides long-term certainty and more flexibility for states and local governments, streamlines project approval processes, and maintains a strong commitment to safety.
 
This FAST Act provides $305 billion in funding through FY2020 and includes a streamlining of the environmental review and permitting process to expedite project completion, offers additional flexibility for states through block granting of surface transportation funds, and prioritizes spending on nationally significant freight corridors. Specifically in Georgia, the FAST Act includes over $6.8 billion in funding allocated to the state through FY2020
 
Links:
http://transportation.house.gov/uploadedfiles/house_senate_big_4.pdf[transportation.house.gov]
https://woodall.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/providing-certainty-georgians-house-approves-long-term-surface[woodall.house.gov]
To see how senators and representatives voted:
Senate Roll Call Vote[senate.gov]
House Roll Call Vote[clerk.house.gov]
These links below are the state-by-state projections and program funding breakdowns from the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration:
FAST Act Highway Funding Tables[docs.acec.org]
FAST Act Transit Funding Tables[docs.acec.org]
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