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Alabama, Mississippi Leaders Issue Grants for Infrastructure Funding
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Government officials in Alabama and Mississippi recently awarded funding to support transportation infrastructure projects throughout their states.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced funding to support 27 road and bridge projects at the city and county level while the Mississippi Transportation Commission approved the Mississippi Department of Transportation to award $10.2 million in grants for multimodal transportation projects.
Mississippi’s funding comes from the state’s Multimodal Transportation Improvement Fund, which allocates money each year to support airports, seaports, railroads and public transit systems.
In Alabama, the funding was made available through the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program-2 (ATRIP-2), which was created under the Rebuild Alabama Act of 2019. The earlier iteration of ATRIP was a matching fund program that financed u