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CNB MPO unanimously approves TIP amendment to back NEVI EV charger grants ahead of Buy America deadline
Summary
The CNB MPO voted unanimously to adopt a TIP amendment enabling roughly $44 million in phase 1b NEVI grants for electric-vehicle chargers to be obligated under the current 55% domestic-content rule before a proposed U.S. DOT change would raise the requirement to 100%.
The CNB MPO on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution to amend the Transportation Improvement Program to allow awarding roughly $44,000,000 in phase 1b National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) grants to install electric-vehicle chargers in the region, members heard.
Rich Donovan, a presenter for the MPO, told members the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized about $55,000,000 for Connecticut and that ConnDOT planned to distribute that funding as grants to public and private entities to install chargers along the state's alternative-fuel corridors, including Interstate 84 and selected…
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