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DOT review underway; no timeline given for I 80 3 bridge spanning Cumberland and Dauphin counties
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Summary
A meeting participant asked the Department of Transportation for a timeline on the I 80 3 bridge project connecting Cumberland and Dauphin counties; a DOT official said the agency is reviewing the project but did not provide a timeline, citing a backlog of funding notices.
A meeting participant asked the Department of Transportation on the status of the I 80 3 bridge project spanning Cumberland and Dauphin counties and requested a timeline to ensure approaches now under construction will connect to the completed structure.
The participant said, “Good to see you, mister secretary. Thanks for your response to my letter regarding the I 80 3 bridge project, spanning Cumberland and Dauphin County in the Tenth District. Said it's under a DOT review. I know that the ranking member also kinda queried you on some of this stuff. Just wondering if you have a timeline.”
The Secretary, a Department of Transportation official, responded that the agency is “working as quickly as possible” but did not give a specific completion or decision date. The official said staff have been modifying Notices of Funding Opportunity and related requirements inherited from the prior administration and that that process has taken additional time: “I'm pulling out a lot of the the green and social justice out of these out of out of the NOFOs that were required by the last administration, but the congress did not require. So that has taken us a little bit of time.”
The Secretary also described a backlog of announcements that the department is processing, saying, “they gave us a almost a thousand announcements between election day and inauguration day in the last administration. In the last Trump administration to Biden, it was, a 100. And, Obama to Trump was 50. They did a thousand for us. And so you all want your projects, but you have to recognize what's been dumped on our plate.”
Discussion only: the exchange in the meeting was a request for a timeline and an agency explanation of processing delays; no formal direction, motion, or decision about the bridge project was recorded in the transcript.
What happens next: the DOT official said the agency is continuing its review but did not commit to a public timeline or specific next steps for the I 80 3 project during the remarks captured in this transcript.
