Oklahoma department of transportation and the president of the dallas area Rapid Transit system. The hearing is about two hours. We will call the subcommittee to order. I like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen the reports in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our system which carries over 400,000 cars a day. With that volume of traffic, its amazing there wasnt any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the implementation of the fast act of state and local partners. Its the first long term surface transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill pr
Its a bill that provides very certainty and funding so our nonfederal artners can make smart long investments. Implemented by the u. S. Department of transportation. We look forward to building a infrastructure with our state and local partners and their oing to welcome today. I am grateful for this subcommittee hearing. I think it indicates that our subcommittee wants to get behind all of the interest that weve heard on infrastructure and see what we can really do. We know that a large infrastructure package idea, the idea of a large infrastructure package, which is on the minds of many in the administration and on our minds is not going to magically appear. We did a lot of and ill say, deservedly so, a lot of selfcongratulation when we passed the First Service transportation bill in 10 years, and i must say im very grateful, mr. Chairman, that it was a good bipartisan effort and i know you share with me the disappointment in order to get any increase whatsoever after 10 years, we had
It system. Well go ahead and call the subcommittee to order. And id like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen reports last weeks fire in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our infrastructure system which carries 400,000 cars a day. But that volume of traffic, its amazing that there wasnt a any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I also want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the fast act. This is the first Long Term Service transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its an Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill provides very much needed certainty and funding so that our federal, nonfederal partners can make smart long term i
The airport is seeking to scale the project to focus solely on the 24 street overpass. Because the obligation for the grant is rapidly approaching, the airport is that high risk of losing these critical federal funds. Mister secretary, this project is important to the city of phoenix into sky harbors future growth. Will your Department Support our efforts to extend the period of eligibility for the grant and work with the airport on this modified project . So it does not lose these critical federal funds . Our goal, of course, is for every grant recipient to succeed when funds are awarded. In this case, it was 2019 funding. I believe the issue here had to do with meeting the obligations deadline, with the proposed change in scope they had. But well be happy to follow up and engage or staff to explore anything we can do to be supportive in the context. Really appreciate working closely with you to make sure we retain those critically important federal funds. Arizona is one of the fastes