Preface

This document includes a number of helpful hints and links to explain various aspects of the projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The document also includes a glossary of terms, bridge market scenarios, and strategies for PCI members to utilize when working with public officials. To fully utilize these links, one should capture the subtle differences in the documents found on these various sites. These general terms are provided to help focus your marketing team’s efforts. After reading this document and looking at a sample of the links provided, please read the follow-up challenge to our industry found on this website. (See “Follow-Up Challenge”)

Project lists may appear in one or more of the following groupings:

Eligible Projects (Listing by all units): This is the step of gathering a catalogue of all projects meeting the initial screening criteria.

Candidate Projects (State agency long listing in initial rank order): The list of all needs is sorted and ranked based on an evaluation scale. Most states have adopted a risk-based assessment, cost/user-benefit model, or combination of both.

Selected Projects (Shortlist based on equity distribution approach): Equity distribution approaches may be based on geographical regions of a state or by asset type. A state will have preservation projects that are focused on pavement management, bridge management, and safety. Department programs will also include capacity improvement projects and enhancement projects. Management projects may include repair, rehabilitation, or full replacement projects.

Bridge repair projects generally include crack sealing, painting, and patching. Occasionally, there may be a few component replacements.

Bridge rehabilitation generally is a more comprehensive effort and may offer the opportunity to precast major replacement sections of substructures or superstructures. Rehabilitation projects may include bridge deck replacements that could be redesigned using full- or partial-depth systems to speed construction. The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Highways for Life has placed a major emphasis on minimizing motorist delays and increasing working safety. The slogan “Get In, Get Out, and Stay Out” has been coined, and PCI-prefabricated products provide the added value of high-quality elements and systems that can be assembled quickly and last a long time with little or no maintenance.

Consider this: A time-consuming rehabilitation project of replacing the deck and painting the old steel girders on an overpass structure may be redesigned with a NEXT Beam system developed by PCI Northeast if the existing spread footing foundation is founded on rock. This would not have worked less than 10 years ago, but with 10,000 psi concrete and 0.60 in. low-relaxation strands, it is now a possibility.

Authorized projects are those projects to which FHWA has committed funds. These funds may pay all or part of the cost of the project. They may include local projects for which the state will act for FHWA, or they may be projects for which FHWA has full oversight.

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) (top)

Copied and paraphrased from the FHWA website, the following programs come off the top:

• First, the amount appropriated for highway infrastructure investment for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, is $27.5 billion.
  
• Second, set aside $105 million for the Puerto Rico Highway Program.
  
• Third, set aside $45 million for the Territorial Highway Program.
  
• Fourth, set aside $310 million for the Indian Reservation Roads Program.
  
• Fifth, set aside $170 million for the Park Roads and Parkways Program.
  
• Sixth, set aside $60 million for the Forest Highway Program.
  
• Seventh, set aside $10 million for the Refuge Roads Program.
  
• Eighth, set aside $20 million for On-the-Job Training/Supportive Services under Section 140(b) of Title 23, United States Code.
  
• Ninth, set aside $20 million for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Bonding Assistance under Section 332(e) of Title 49, United States Code.
  
• Tenth, set aside $60 million for capital expenditures eligible under Section 147 of Title 23, United States Code.
  
• Eleventh, set aside $40 million for oversight of projects and activities carried out with funds resulting from this apportionment. The resulting amount after all of the foregoing set-asides is $26,660,000,000.
  
• Twelfth, compute the apportionment to each state and the District of Columbia of the remainder of the amounts.
  
• Thirteenth, subject to the foregoing set aside, the sums that are hereby apportioned to each state and the District of Columbia, effective immediately, are respectively as follows:
  

DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUNDS TO AREAS WITHIN A STATE WITH AN URBANIZED POPULATION GREATER THAN 200,000 PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009:
www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/notices/n4510705t3.htm

DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUNDS FOR ALL STATES, PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009:
www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/notices/n4510705t2.htm

Overall FHWA Website:
www.dot.gov/recovery/

For state breakdown into specific spending areas, see tables 1, 2, 3, and 4 (See below link for these 4 individual tables), which do not include an additional $240M in Coast Guard funding for the replacement of declared substandard bridge openings restricting marine traffic. For detailed information, see the Bridge Act of 1906 and Truman Hobbs Act.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/legsregs/directives/notices/n4510705.htm

Transportation (top)

Airport Stimulus Package
The act provides $1.1 billion to FAA with a single project limited to $15 million and a single recipient sponsor limit of $20 million.
http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/airports/aip

Federal Railroad Including High-Speed Rail
http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/2153

Federal Transit
On the transit side, the funding totals $8.4 billion. This is split into three parts:

1. Transit capital assistance: $6.9 billion
2. Fixed guide way modernization: $750 million
3. Capital investment grants (new and small starts): $750 million

The period of availability of the funds for the first two categories is the same. First, 50% of the money needs to be obligated by September 1, 2009, and other 50% obligated by March 5, 2010. After September 1, 2009, any funds unused by the funded entity will be lost and will become available for others. The same thing happens after March 5, 2010. Whatever funds remain after September 30, 2010, will revert back to the U.S. Treasury.

The FTA funding is allocated to cities with population greater than 1 million ($4,299,422,010), population between 200,000 and 999,000 ($1,096,725,713), and population between 50,000 and 200,000 ($571,704,316). How these funds will be used by the cities is still unknown.

On the high-speed rail (HSR) funding, the total allocation is $8 billion. There are no time constraints for this program. From what our members are reporting, about eleven corridors are looking at HSR, including NY–Washington, Tallahassee–Tampa–Miami, San Diego–Sacramento, and Illinois. Some members recall a map indicating the different corridors but cannot locate it.

The one corridor that seems to be making some headway is the San Diego–Sacramento corridor. From some reports, that project has a cost exceeding $45 billion. Public-private partnership is being investigated for the project, which involves many tunnels and bridges. In reality, the $8 billion is only seed money for these type of mega-projects. Very few of these corridors are financially attractive at this time for outside investors.
www.fta.dot.gov/index_9118.html

American Public Transit Association: (top)
www.apta.com

Community Transit Association:
web1.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=23&z=2

The $49.3 billion Transportation Act provides $27.5 billion for highway road and bridge projects, with $850 million set aside for federal lands, American Indian reservation roads, territories, ferry boats/facilities, administration, and other activities.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO):
www.transportation.org

Specific areas within the AASHTO website are:

• Past reports and testimonies concerning funding
• ITS
• Asset preservation

Department executives testified to Congress stating five problem areas, or “headaches,” and included these words:

Headache Number One: Aging and deteriorating roads, bridges, and transit systems. One quarter of major urban roadways are in poor condition, 25% of the nation's bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and roughly half of the nation's transit buses and rail cars have exceeded their service life or will do so within the next six years.

Do not let them overlook these testimonies in which the “bridge safety card” was played to get the funding. They should follow through with execution, and accountability is needed. Click on the AASHTO link below for key information on the economic recovery, including a partial list of the latest state data.
www.transportation.org/?siteid=99&pageid=2965

State Examples (top)
Examples from the states on their specific ready-to-go projects:

Alabama
Funding distribution: www.dot.state.al.us/stimulus2009
Project list: www.dot.state.al.us/stimulus2009/Files/ARRA%20Program%20Project%20Listing%20Highway.pdf

Alaska
Stimulus list: www.dot.state.ak.us/econstim/documents/Stimulus-Final-Bill-0221-1.pdf
FHWA letter reallocations: www.dot.state.ak.us/econstim/documents/AK_Subal.pdf

Arizona
System preservation: 29%, $102 million; rehabilitation/replacement: 16%, $57 million; new construction: 55%, $193 million
www.azdot.gov/board/agendas/PDF_2009/030309_STB_Recovery_Presentation.pdf

Arkansas
Project list: www.arkansashighways.com/ARRA2009/March%202_%202009_List.pdf

California
$1.72 billion total
www.dot.ca.gov/hq/transprog/ctcliaison/2009/0209/MH_Tab13_Handouts_Combined.pdf

Colorado
1/22/09 bill summary for Colorado: www.dot.state.co.us/GovernmentRelations/tracking/Updated%20Stimulus%2001%2022%2009.pdf

Connecticut
Approximately $391,353,000 will be provided to Connecticut for highways and bridges, $68,087,000 for transit capital, and $53,456,000 for fixed guide way modernization.
www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents/dconsultdesign/notification_planning_agencies.pdf
Also visit www.ct.gov/recovery/site

Delaware (top)
Pavement and rehabilitation: $70 million; bridge maintenance: $29.1 million; I-95 toll plaza project: $43 million; and other highway projects.
Spending priorities: www.deldot.gov/information/media_gallery/2009/stimulus/stimulus_release_gov_deldot_combined.pdf

Florida
Estimated transportation funding:
Airport improvements: $70 million; highways and bridges: $1.347 billion; and transit: $315.4 million. The exact project selections will be made after a series of statewide meetings are held. There appear to be several major bridge projects that should make the list. Details are still a month away from coming forward.
Overview: www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/economicstimulus/FastFacts.pdf
FL stimulus website: www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/economicstimulus

Georgia
Per the board’s direction, up to 50% of the funds will be dedicated to maintenance activities (30% for resurfacing; 20% for interstate rehabilitation work) on the state’s highway system, as much as 26% to congestion relief and new capacity projects, up to 10% on bridge replacement and rehabilitation, as much as 10% for various safety projects, and 4% on enhancement projects.
Specific candidate projects were not listed as of March 19, 2009. See a GADOT policy statement at www.dot.state.ga.us/informationcenter/pressroom/Documents/Board/2009/Press%20Releases/2-26-09-2.pdf.
GADOT website: www.dot.state.ga.us

They do have a list of eligible and ineligible projects. GDOT is still evaluating the priority ranking to establish the candidate list to submit to FHWA for federal authorization.
www.dot.ga.gov/informationcenter/programs/transportation/gastimulus/Pages/Eligible.aspx

Hawaii (top)
There is no specific recovery-plan information; however, the current State Transportation Implementation Plan (STIP), which is dated March 2009, shows federal funding per project.
STIP Draft Revision Economic Stimulus: hawaii.gov/dot/highways/STIP/08-13%20STIP%20Draft%20Revision%20%236%20economic%20stimulus%20APPROVED%2003-02-09.pdf/view?searchterm=stimulus

Idaho
The state is receiving more than $200 million in stimulus funds, with plans for at least one bridge, the $36.8 million Dover bridge replacement.
For more information, visit itd.idaho.gov/Transporter/2009/030609_Trans/030609_Stimulus.html.

Illinois
There appear to be approximately 36 eligible bridge projects in the Draft Proposed Projects list posted at
dot.state.il.us/stimulus/April_Letting_List_With_Letter.pdf.

Indiana
Funds distribution by geographical area and will follow standard state policies for eligibility review: www.in.gov/indot/files/ARRA_Funding_Distribution.pdf. See the link below for highlights of the eligibility rules.
Indiana has received $658 million, of which $440 million is for state road and bridge projects, $20 million is for transportation enhancement projects, and $198 million is for local road, bridge, and transportation enhancement projects. Here is Indiana's briefing on project selection:
www.in.gov/indot/files/District_Power_Point.pdf

Iowa
Iowa has developed an entire website devoted to explaining the ARRA and seeking public input. Specific project selection is a feature that will be added at some point. Private sector may help create priority list.
www.iowadot.gov/recovery/index.htm

Kansas (top)
Kansas is receiving $380 million in funds, with $213 million tied to four major projects. See website for details and descriptions.
ARRA press release: www.ksdot.org/PDF_Files/Stimulus%20Release.pdf
Funding overview: www.ksdot.org/PDF_Files/American%20Recovery%20and%20Reinvestment%20Act%20Overview%20Packet.pdf

Kentucky
A general search of the website shows no specific stimulus information as of March 10, 2009.

Louisiana
A general search of the website shows no specific stimulus information as of March 10, 2009.

Maine
Maine is receiving $162 million, with highways and bridges receiving $130.7 million for 71 projects. There appears to be at least one major additional bridge candidate estimated to cost $60 million, the Portland-South Portland Veterans Bridge.
www.maine.gov/mdot/stimulus/pdf/TransEconRecSummary.pdf
Appendix B of detailed smaller projects: www.maine.gov/mdot/stimulus/pdf/appendixb030209.pdf

Also, it may be informative to visit www.mass.gov/recovery.

Maryland
Maryland is receiving $223.4 million. Approximately 65% of the funds will be dedicated to maintenance activities (resurfacing and extending pavement surface life) on the state’s highway system, approximately 0.2% to congestion relief, approximately 1.5% to bridge replacement and rehabilitation, approximately 22% to various safety projects, and approximately 0.3% to environmental projects.
www.mdot.state.md.us/Planning/Economic_Recovery/FactSheet_022309.pdf

Massachusetts (top)
Massachusetts is receiving $437.9 million in funding, with $153 million already geared toward “shovel-ready” projects.
Press release: www.eot.state.ma.us/default.asp?pgid=content/releases/pr030609_firstFederal&sid=release
For more information, visit www.mass.gov/recovery.

Michigan
Michigan is expecting to receive $850 million for roads and bridges.
Direct link to Michigan’s recovery website: www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151--210002--,00.html
Stimulus candidate projects: www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_Stim_Cand_Projects_02-20-09_269166_7.pdf

Minnesota
Minnesota is receiving $502 million. The state has ranked the eligible projects and published a Tier 1 Recovery Project List. It could not be determined whether FHWA has authorized all or part of this list.
www.dot.state.mn.us/federalrecovery/lists/greater-mn-final.pdf
Direct link to Minnesota’s Recovery website: www.dot.state.mn.us/federalrecovery

Mississippi
The 1211 and 1501 letters to FHWA contain the candidate lists to FHWA. These may not be authorized by FHWA; see the link below. The project list contains $72 million in bridge projects, with four grade-and-pavement projects and ten bridge replacements.
www.gomdot.com/Divisions/Highways/Resources/Programming/ARRA/Home.aspx

Missouri
Missouri is expecting $528 mllion for highways and bridges.
Missouri stimulus information site: www.modot.org/firstinnation/ARRAProjectlist.htm
Draft recovery plan and partial project spending, including one bridge rehabilitation project (mostly a resurfacing program in its current form): www.modot.org/firstinnation/documents/RecoveryBillpassed_alldistricts031009_withestimatechangesindescription.pdf

Montana
Candidate project list contains greater than $35 million in bridge replacement projects.
Candidate project List: www.mdt.mt.gov/recovery/docs/stipdraft_stimulus_ref.pdf
Montana’s recovery website: www.mdt.mt.gov/recovery

Nebraska (top)
Listing $387 million in ready-to-go projects, with 26 bridge construction projects: www.dor.state.ne.us/3-3-09-ready-to-go.pdf

Nevada
The state has posted no significant information on its plans or funding as of March 10, 2009.
Main recovery information website: www.nevadadot.com/projects/stimulus

New Hampshire
Stimulus highway and bridge project list is expected to total $129.4 million, with $15 million in bridge projects, and several other large bypass constructions that may include bridge work: www.nh.gov/dot/recovery/documents/EconomicStim.pdf
Main NH stimulus website: www.nh.gov/dot/recovery/index.htm

New Jersey
New Jersey is receiving $650 million for highways and bridges, of which more than $62 million is planned for painting bridges. No bridge construction projects are on the project list.
Project list: www.state.nj.us/transportation/capital/stimulus/pdf/NJDOTARRAprojects.pdf
Main NJ stimulus website: www.state.nj.us/transportation/capital/stimulus

New Mexico
A general search of the website shows no specific stimulus information as of March 10, 2009.

New York
New York is receiving $1.1 billion for highways and bridges, with six bridge replacement/rehab projects on the “First Projects” list, and two additional bridge replacements on the “Additional Shovel Ready Projects” list.
For further NY news, visit www.economicrecovery.ny.gov/News/news.htm.
Main NY stimulus website: www.nysdot.gov/recovery

North Carolina
North Carolina is receiving $735 million for highways and bridges, with $20 million in bridge rehabilitation/replacement projects starting between March and June.
Project list: www.ncdot.gov/_templates/download/external.html?pdf=http%3A//www.ncdot.gov/download/about/finance/fedstimulus/March_June2009.pdf
Main NC stimulus website: www.ncdot.gov/about/finance/federalstimulus

North Dakota (top)
Main ND stimulus website: www.dot.nd.gov/business/federalrecovery.htm

Ohio
Ohio is receiving $774 million in total transportation improvement funds. No specific project lists are available at this time.
www.dot.state.oh.us/news/Pages/GovernorsOfficeAnnouncesFederal.aspx

Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s project list contains approximately $23 million in bridge projects.
Project list: www.okladot.state.ok.us/recovery/pdfs/cert-sect-1511.pdf
Main OK stimulus website: www.okladot.state.ok.us/recovery/index.htm

Oregon
Oregon is planning $122.5 million for roads and highways, with $2.7 million for bridge projects.
Project list: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/docs/StimulusProjects2009.pdf
Main OR stimulus website: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/economic_stimulus.shtml

Pennsylvania
A general search of the website shows no specific stimulus information as of March 10, 2009.
Pennsylvania's 2009 ARRA Planned Highway and Bridge Projects for Letting

Rhode Island
Rhode Island is planning for $138.5 million in road and highway projects, with $13.1 million for bridge rehabilitation and $9.3 million for preventive bridge maintenance.
Project list: www.dot.ri.gov/documents/recovery/ridotarraprojects.pdf
Stimulus information is located on these RI sites:
www.dot.ri.gov
www.dot.state.ri.us

South Carolina
$37.5 million is already approved for 12 bridge projects set to begin by May.
Bridge program project list: www.scdot.org/inside/pdfs/Stimulus-BridgeProgram.pdf
Main SC stimulus link: www.scdot.org/inside/stimulus.shtml

South Dakota (top)
No bridge projects are included in the draft plan.
Project list: www.sddot.com/pe/projdev/docs/EconStim02192009.pdf
Main SD stimulus link: www.sddot.com/pe/projdev/planning_stip.asp

Tennessee
Tennessee is receiving $572 million in road and bridge funds,
Main Tennessee stimulus link: www.tdot.state.tn.us/recovery/default.htm

Texas
Texas is receiving $1.2 billion in stimulus funding for 29 road and bridge construction projects, with approximately $18 million for 2 bridge projects.
Project list: ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/stimulus/project_list_030509.pdf
For more information, visit www.txdot.gov/news/009-2009.htm.

Utah
$26.5 million is planned for major bridge projects.
Main Utah stimulus link: www.dot.state.ut.us/main/f?p=100:pg:0:::1:T,V:2288,

Vermont
Vermont is receiving $125 million in road and bridge funding. Only one project has approval from the legislature as of March 10, 2009, and the work is scheduled to start immediately. This is a major bridge rehablilitation project.
Main Vermont stimulus link: www.aot.state.vt.us/stimulus
For additional information, visit www.recovery.vermont.gov.

Virginia
Virginia is receiving $694.5 million in road and bridge funding, with $118 million going to three major metro areas (D.C., Richmond, Hampton Roads).
Press release from the governor: www.governor.virginia.gov/MediaRelations/NewsReleases/viewRelease.cfm?id=890

Washington (top)
Washington is expecting $492 million in road and bridge funding. None of the first-tier projects published appear to be bridge work.
Main Washington stimulus link: www.wsdot.wa.gov/funding/stimulus
Secondary link being populated with project-specific information: www.wsdot.wa.gov/funding/stimulus/projectlist
From unofficial estimated reports, WSDOT will have 5 projects with a total cost of about $153.3 million that have bridge work. A rough estimate is that these projects contain about $70 million of bridge work.

West Virginia
A general search of the website shows no specific stimulus information as of March 10, 2009.

Wisconsin
Wisconsin is receiving $529 million for state and local road and bridge funding, with up to 30% going to local road and bridge projects. Specific projects are still being submitted for approval as of March 10, 2009.
Main Wisconsin stimulus link: www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/recovery

Wyoming
Stimulus press release: dot.state.wy.us/ReadMore.jsp?sCode=news&sCID=3851
WYDOT has released a STIP Modification for the stimulus program. It appears to be a pavement and safety program.
www.dot.state.wy.us/Default.jsp?sCode=stipn

Some states' departments of transportation listed candidate projects on their websites in November or December 2008. AASHTO has compiled a series of general links to each DOT. In the event that the recovery links listed on this website do not work, visit www.transportation.org/?siteid=37&pageid=332 and then search the main home page of the state DOT; each state has a phone number listed for a senior executive contact person.

This completes the state-by-state observations and links. The notes are only general characterizations and should be verified by the user. PCI as an institute holds no responsibility for the validity of this information, as all programs are dynamic and changing.