On January 14, 2025, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced a new final rule to end its longstanding waiver of Buy America requirements for “manufactured products” used in Federal-aid highway projects.
By way of background, FHWA’s Buy America statute was enacted in 1983 and required FHWA to ensure that all federally funded projects use only steel, iron, and manufactured products that are produced in the United States. However, at the time, FHWA determined that it would be in the public interest to waive the Buy America requirements for manufactured products ...
Sean Duffy was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) on January 29, 2025, and immediately issued directives that will impact the operations of the Department and its Operating Administrations (OA), as well as state and local grant recipients ...
President Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, and issued numerous executive orders later that afternoon. Many of these executive orders, including one that directly referenced infrastructure, paused federal funding for the purpose of giving the Trump Administration the opportunity to review that funding against the Administration’s priorities. Since these executive orders were signed, there have been several developments as stakeholders grappled with the impact of the orders and as the Trump Administration has attempted to clarify and issued subsequent ...
Hot on the heels of the financial close of the Presidio Parkway, the first California transportation public-private partnership (P3) availability payment deal and only the fourth in the United States, Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Innovative Program Delivery has issued guidance regarding the eligibility of periodic availability payments for reimbursement from federal aid funds. Federal-Aid Funding and Availability Payments
Recognizing that availability payment concessions can offer the benefits of enhanced performance and project cost savings ...
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