This article was originally published 3 March, 2009
President Obama signed into law H.R. 1, the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" (the Act) on February 17, 2009 (the Enactment Date). The Act provides $787 billion in new spending and tax incentives that are intended to provide economic stimulus for the American economy. One of the stated purposes of the Act is to provide significant funding to improve the nation's aging infrastructure and to that end the Act contains approximately $120 billion for infrastructure and technology-related investments.
In broad terms, this $120 billion is allocated as follows:
Highways, Rails and Ports
- $27.5 billion for U.S. highways, passenger rail, freight rail and ports
- $6.9 billion in "Federal Transit Administration Transit Capital Assistance"
- $8 billion for a high-speed passenger intercity rail system " $1.3 billion in capital grants to Amtrak
Aviation
- $1.1 billion for Grants-in-Aid for Airports
- $1 billion for TSA aviation security
Water and Environmental Remediation
- $6.4 billion in clean water and environmental remediation projects
- $1 billion in water and related resources projects
Broadband Technology
- $7.2 billion for the expansion of broadband technology to more communities in the United States
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