The Federal Highway Administration recently awarded $1.2 billion to 39 state departments of transportation via its Low Carbon Transportation Materials discretionary grant program.
[Above photo by WVDOT]
That program, which received $2 billion in funding via the Inflation Reduction Act, provides states, tribes, metropolitan planning organizations or MPOs, and other agencies with reimbursement and incentive funding to purchase American-made low carbon construction materials and products, including asphalt, glass, steel, and concrete for use in transportation projects.
[Editor’s note: In April the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials sent a comment letter to the Environmental Protection Agency expressing concern regarding the “harmonization” of low-carbon materials standards.]
FHWA also noted in a statement that under the Low Carbon Transportation Materials program, state DOTs can establish “new processes” to use low-carbon materials on construction projects that receive federal aid.
Pete Buttigieg, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, explained his agency’s perspective regarding the “climate benefits” from expanded use of low carbon materials during a panel discussion in January at the Transportation Research Board’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
“Our aim is to make infrastructure materials like pavement more effective, resilient, durable, and longer lasting than ever before,” Buttigieg explained at that session. “It’s about making the right kind of investments not just to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure but to redefine how it is built.”
The state DOTs receiving grants from the FHWA from this round of low-carbon materials program funding are:
- Arizona Department of Transportation: $27 million
- California Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Colorado Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- District of Columbia Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Delaware Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Hawaii Department of Transportation: $28.9 million
- Iowa Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Idaho Transportation Department: $31.9 million
- Illinois Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Indiana Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Kansas Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Kentucky Transportation Cabinet: $31.9 million
- Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development: $31.9 million
- Massachusetts Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Maryland Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Michigan Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Minnesota Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Missouri Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Mississippi Department of Transportation: $26.6 million
- Montana Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- North Carolina Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- North Dakota Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- New Jersey Department of Transportation: $27.8 million
- New Mexico Department of Transportation: $29.8 million
- Nevada Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- New York State Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Ohio Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Oklahoma Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Oregon Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Pennsylvania Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works: $24.7 million
- Rhode Island Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- South Carolina Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Tennessee Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Virginia Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Vermont Agency of Transportation: $14.5 million
- Washington State Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- Wisconsin Department of Transportation: $31.9 million
- West Virginia Department of Transportation: $30.5 million
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