The Federal Highway Administration has announced $410 million in emergency relief funds for projects to repair bridges and roads damaged by natural events in 33 states and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marian Islands. Funds also will go to several federal land management agencies to cover repair work.
“We stand by communities that have been impacted by natural disaster and other emergencies,” says Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “These funds will allow states to complete projects that are ready to go, and that will allow people to travel and resume their daily lives as soon as possible.”
Colorado receives the most funds for a “single incident” at $115.5 million for repairs after floods near Denver and Boulder in September 2013. Combined, New Jersey and New York collect $92 million for repairs following Hurricane Sandy. California gets $14 million for damage from storms last February and Ohio receives $13 million for repairs after landslides last March. South Carolina gets $10 million for damages after the floods in October, but will receive more after the state finishes assessing all the damage.
“Emergency relief funding is an integral part of the federal-aid program,” says Federal Highway Administrator Gregory Nadeau. “Part of our mission is to help states get back on track by restoring broken transportation links when disaster strikes.”
Totals for this round of emergency relief funds include:
- Alabama: $4.3 million for storms and flooding in 2013 and 2014
- Alaska: $4.7 million for storms and flooding in 2013 and 2015
- Arizona: $658,446 for a washout
- Arkansas: $658,446 for rainfall and flooding in 2015
- California: $29.1 million for storms in 2005 and 2014 and fire in 2015
- Colorado: $119.1 million for flooding in 2013 and 2015
- Delaware: $1.9 million for bridge damage in 2014
- Florida: $487,250 for Tropical Storm Isaac in 2012
- Indiana: $790,136 for flooding in 2011
- Iowa: $1.9 million for flooding in 2014
- Kansas: $790,136 for flooding in 2015
- Kentucky: $3.7 million for storms in 2015
- Michigan: $2.8 million for flooding and bridge collapse in 2014
- Minnesota: $2.4 million for flooding in 2014
- Mississippi: $444,127 for storms in 2015
- Missouri: $1.6 million for flooding in 2013 and 2015
- Montana: $855,980 for flooding in 2014
- Nebraska: $1.3 million for flooding in 2015
- New Jersey: $52 million for Hurricane Sandy in 2012
- New Mexico: $8.6 million for flooding in 2014
- New York: $40.2 million for Hurricane Sandy in 2012
- Ohio: $23.6 million for heavy rainfall in 2011, landslides and a tanker truck crash in 2015
- Oklahoma: $6.8 million for storms and tornadoes in 2013 and storms and flooding in 2015
- Oregon: $4.8 million for severe weather in 2012, a rockslide in 2014 and wildfires in 2015
- South Carolina: $10.4 million for a tanker fire and flooding in 2015
- Texas: $9.9 million for flooding in 2015
- Utah: $4.7 million for flooding in 2014
- Vermont: $1.3 million for Tropical Storm Irene in 2011
- Virginia: $1.3 million for winter storms in 2015
- Washington: $13.9 million for storms, bridge hit and landslides in 2013, heavy rainfall and storms in 2014, extreme rainfall, flooding and overpass and bridge damage in 2015
- West Virginia: $6.6 million for storms and flooding in 2015
- Wisconsin: $237,041 for flooding in 2012
- Wyoming: $2.9 million for flooding in 2015
- N. Mariana: $609,063 for Typhoon Soudelor in 2015
- Federal land management agencies: $44.7 million
