Bipartisan Infrastructure BIll Would Spend $17 Billion on Ports
The bipartisan infrastructure bill being debated in the Senate this week invests $17 billion in port infrastructure, according to a White House summary of the more than 2,000-page bill. That money would go to maintenance backlogs, emissions and congestion near ports, and for electrification and other low-carbon technologies at ports of entry. It also invests $25 billion in airports.
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According to a more detailed summary shared in the Senate, alloted is $4 billion for dredging and repairing damages; $5.15 billion for the construction backlog at the Army Corps of Engineers; $455 million annually for five years for the port infrastructure development program; $3.85 billion to modernize land ports of entry, to be split between CBP and the General Services Administration; and $80 million annually for five years for reducing truck emissions at and around ports. That segment of the bill also underwrites a study of how to electrify ports and on emerging technologies to reduce truck emissions.