The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is Delivering in Nevada

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is Delivering in Nevada

The Biden administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, supported by only 13 U.S. House Republicans (excluding Nevada’s Mark Amodei), is a landmark law that will invest more than $4 billion in Nevada to create good-paying union jobs, rebuild Nevada’s economy, improve roads, public transportation, and water infrastructure, and expand access to high-speed internet. Specifically:

Broadband

• Nevada received $639.1 million to connect everyone in the state to reliable high-speed internet and, as of today, more than 276,000 Nevada households are already saving on their monthly internet bill.

Transit

• $1.9 billion has been allocated for Nevada roads, bridges, roadway safety, and major projects.
• Nevada schools were awarded $17.6 million through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program. Communities in Nevada were awarded $18.9 million for clean transit buses and improved bus service.

Airports

• Nevada has received $216.1 million to modernize airport infrastructure.

Drinking Water and Legacy Pollution Cleanup

• $248 million will provide clean and safe water across the state and improve water infrastructure, which includes lead pipe and service-line replacement.
• $9 million has been allocated to cleaning up Superfund and brownfield sites, abandoned mines, and orphaned gas and oil wells.

Clean Energy

• To date, $21.8 million has been announced to build a network of Electric Vehicle chargers.
• Approximately $118 million has been allocated to Nevada for clean energy, energy efficiency, and power, which includes weatherization and power grid resiliency.

Resiliency

• Approximately $97.5 million has been allocated to Nevada for infrastructure resilience for flood mitigation, wildfires, and weather extremes.

Some Project Highlights

The Brightline West High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail System Project will receive $3 billion for a new 218-mile intercity passenger rail system between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Las Vegas was awarded $23.9 million for the installation of a protected two-way cycle track, sidewalk widening and obstruction removal to meet ADA accessibility guidelines, upgraded lighting, bus stop improvements, and associated landscaping.

Nearly $60 million awarded to American Battery Technology for domestic manufacturing of low-cost and low environmental impact, battery-grade Nevada-based lithium hydroxide to create a more resilient U.S. battery manufacturing supply chain.

$88.9 million was awarded to Washoe County to add two lanes along three miles of US-395 to improve traffic control.

$8.2 million will help restore fish and wildlife passage at Derby Dam that, for the first time in 85 years, will allow operation of a fishway to connect the lower Truckee River at Numana Dam to 65 miles of spawning habitat.

The Elko Nevada Rail Corridor Enhancement Project received $28 million to design and construct improvements on the Union Pacific Railroad Overload Route at the Elko Yard.