White House Releases Guidebook for Infrastructure Law
Vehicles travel across the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit and Windsor, Canada on November 8, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan. Getty Images/Nic Antaya
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Bill Lucia
It's meant to help state and local officials better understand the programs available under the $1.2 trillion package.
The Biden administration on Monday released a 465-page guidebook meant to help state, local and tribal governments navigate programs included in the recently signed $1.2 trillion infrastructure law.
In an announcement, the White House said the guidebook was meant to serve as "a roadmap to the funding available under the law, as well as an explanatory document that shows direct federal spending at the program level." It provides information on the more than 375 programs in the package, the White House said.
“This resource is a critical part of our extensive outreach to state, local, tribal and territorial governments to ensure the people of America can benefit from this once-in-a-generation investment,” Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor who is now Biden's infrastructure implementation coordinator, said in a statement.
The book breaks down programs by topic area—for instance, public transportation, water and broadband. In addition to providing information about the pots of funding in each category, it also offers notes on how states and localities can prepare to access funds.
Along with the guide, the White House issued a data file that enables users to sort infrastructure programs in the law based on different variables, like which agency is overseeing the money, or the amount of funding available.
More on the White House guidebook and data file can be found here.
Those interested in the details of the law might also check out a new guidebook on it for state and local leaders that The Atlas published last week. The Atlas, an online community of local officials, is part of GovExec, which publishes Route Fifty.
The Atlas infrastructure guidebook can be found here.
Bill Lucia is executive editor for Route Fifty and is based in Olympia, Washington.
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