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    The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, otherwise known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), represents a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure, competitiveness, and communities and provides approximately $550 billion in new Federal infrastructure investment. This includes historic and critical investments in Tribal transportation through the Tribal Transportation Program (TTP), including increased funding to programs dedicated to Tribal needs and increased Tribal eligibility for new and existing discretionary grant programs. The first year of the BIL (2022) increases TTP funding by 15 percent over 2020 levels—and over the full range of the BIL (2022-2026), the law provides more than $3 billion for the program. This dedicated historic level of funding benefits all 574 federally recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages (Tribes). The BIL provides substantial resources to help tribes advance projects that consider the unique circumstances affecting community members’ mobility needs and allocate resources consistently with those needs, enabling the transportation network to effectively serve all community members. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will work with Tribes to ensure consideration of using Federal funds for projects and inclusion of project elements that proactively address racial equity, workforce development, economic development and removing barriers to opportunity, including automobile dependence in both rural and urban communities as a barrier to opportunity, or to redress prior inequities and barriers to opportunity. Safety continues to be the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) top priority. Tragically, based upon statistics, Native Americans remain the group most likely to lose their lives in car crashes. Dedicated safety funding within the TTP more than doubled in the BIL, giving us more opportunities to work together to improve safety in Tribal communities. The National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) (issued January 27, 2022) commits the USDOT and FHWA to respond to the current crisis in traffic fatalities by “taking substantial, comprehensive action to significantly reduce serious and fatal injuries on the Nation’s roadways,” in pursuit of the goal of achieving zero highway deaths. FHWA recognizes that zero is the only acceptable number of deaths on our roads and achieving that is our safety goal. FHWA therefore encourages Tribes to prioritize safety in all Federal highway investments and in all appropriate projects, using relevant funding. In addition, the BIL includes an unprecedented investment in the Tribal Transportation Bridge Program. Here, the BIL provides more than $1 billion dollars over five years (2022-2026)—a 14-fold increase compared to the FAST Act—through dedicated set-asides from the new Bridge Investment Program and Bridge Formula Program. Tribes are eligible to access many of the new highway programs created under the BIL, including programs focused on resilience, electric charging and alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure, and repairing and replacing culverts. Tribes can also apply for several unprecedented USDOT-led surface transportation competitive grant programs that will provide billions for infrastructure projects across the country.
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