Details of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan Affecting the Underground Construction Industry
(AP) — The Senate has voted to take up a nearly $1 trillion national infrastructure plan after President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators reached an agreement on major provisions of the package.
Here’s a breakdown of where the dollars would go, according to a summary released by the White House.
— $55 billion for water and wastewater infrastructure, including funding to replace all of the nation’s service lines using lead pipe.
— $65 billion to expand broadband access, a particular problem for rural areas and tribal communities. Most of the money would be made available through grants to states.
— $21 billion to clean up superfund and brownfield sites, reclaim abandoned mine land and cap obsolete gas wells.
— $73 billion for modernizing the nation’s electric grid and expanding the use of renewable energy.
The White House is projecting that the investments overall will add, on average, about 2 million jobs per year over the coming decade. A 57-page Republican summary of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press also outlines how the lawmakers hope to pay for the additional spending.
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