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DOT reviews 3,200 awarded grants; senators press for faster obligation, clarity on removed requirements
Summary
Secretary Duffy said the Department of Transportation is reexamining roughly 3,200 announced grants that lack signed grant agreements and will remove certain climate and equity conditions from grant agreements; senators warned the review is slowing projects and asked for timelines to avoid losing obligated funds.
The Department of Transportation is reviewing roughly 3,200 announced grant awards that do not yet have signed grant agreements, Secretary Sean Duffy told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and said the department intends to remove some previously required language on climate and diversity initiatives from grant agreements in order to speed execution.
Why it matters: Senators from both parties praised recent infrastructure investment but said the current pace of converting announced awards into executed grant agreements and released funds must accelerate so state and local governments can begin work and meet contractual timelines.
What DOT said
Duffy told senators the department inherited "an unprecedented backlog of 3,200 awarded projects without signed grant…
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