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| May 27, 2021 | US Senate Committee Unanimously Passes $304 Billion Highway Bill | The funding lasts for five years and marks a massive increase over the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which carried $226.3 billion in funds. The extension on the FAST Ac ...Read more |
| May 27, 2021 | USDOT Announces $10 Million in Funding for Tribal Transit Projects | The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration announced on Wednesday that $10 million is available in competitive grant funding for Native authorities for use towards tra ...Read more |
| May 24, 2021 | New Jersey’s $1.8 Billion Bridge Project Sees Outreach to Hundreds of DBEs | Things are finally starting to push forward in the construction of the new $1.8 billion Portal North Bridge project. The more than 100-year-old bridge spans the Hackensack River in New Jersey ...Read more |
| May 20, 2021 | LA Metro Accepts Public Comment on DBE Goals for Fiscal Years 2022-2024 | LA Metro's goal for fiscal year 2022-2024 is to establish a “level playing field” for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) to partake in metro’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA)-assi ...Read more |
| May 20, 2021 | USDOT Expands Workforce Development Programs with Focus on Minorities | Training is often the biggest barrier to employment in the industry, and those who enter the program may use it as a bridge to entering the construction workforce. On Wednesday, Secretary of ...Read more |
| May 13, 2021 | SBA Chief Guzman Sued as New Restaurant Fund Numbers Are Unveiled | Isabella Guzman, the administrator of the Small Business Administration, is targeted by a lawsuit from a conservative group over a 21-day exclusive period for disadvantaged businesses in the new Re ...Read more |
| April 28, 2021 | GOP Unveils $568b Infrastructure Counter Offer | Biden’s plan, covered previously by Contractor News here, calls for $2 trillion to be ...Read more |
| April 27, 2021 | Nation’s Small Shipyards Get $20m Boost From Maritime Admin | The goal of the funding is to “strengthen U.S. shipyard economic competitiveness.” The funds will be administered through the Small Shipyard Grant Program, which has doled out $262.5 mill ...Read more |
| April 23, 2021 | Kamala Harris is Quietly Pushing Loans for Small & Diverse Businesses | Over the course of President Joe Biden’s election campaign, he repeatedly promised to put minority and women-owned businesses at the forefront of his recovery agenda. As we have ...Read more |
| April 18, 2021 | SBA to Launch Restaurant Revitalization Fund | The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced on Saturday application requirements and eligibility guidelines for the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund signed into law as part of the ...Read more |