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What applicants need to know about TIGER’s replacement program: BUILD

30 Apr 2018 | Posted by Beth Osborne | 1 Comment | BUILD, federal funding, members, TIGER, usdot, webinar

Applications for BUILD (formerly TIGER) are now open. Having run TIGER at USDOT for the first few round, I want to take a deeper dive on what’s new with BUILD and add some context.

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The TIGER program is no more….in name

20 Apr 2018 | Posted by Alex Beckmann | 4 Comments | BUILD, federal funding, infrastructure, infrastructure plan, NOFO, President Trump, rural areas, state funding, TIGER, usdot

The TIGER grant program is now being called BUILD. While the criteria are essentially the same, there’s one big caveat. Under BUILD, USDOT will now require applicants to provide evidence that they have secured and committed new, non-federal revenue for projects requesting funding. And there’s a whole list of reasons why that’s a problem.

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The infrastructure plan that cuts infrastructure funding

13 Feb 2018 | Posted by Sean Doyle | 1 Comment | 2019 budget, federal funding, fix-it-first, infrastructure, transit funding

After the release of the Trump administration’s long awaited infrastructure plan yesterday (along with the administration’s FY19 budget request), Beth Osborne, vice president of technical assistance at T4America, joined CBC News to talk about some of the issues with the plan in particular.

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The rapidly disappearing infrastructure promises of 2017

21 Nov 2017 | Posted by Steve Davis | 3 Comments | federal funding, infrastructure, infrastructure plan, infrastructure principles, President Trump

The House-approved tax reform legislation is the most recent evidence that neither the administration nor Congress seems to be very serious about supporting and encouraging infrastructure investment.

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Trump’s budget will hurt local communities

20 Mar 2017 | Posted by Transportation for America | 3 Comments | 2018 budget, atlanta, budget, federal funding, Indianapolis, new starts, passenger rail, President Trump, Tempe, TIGER, transit funding

President Trump’s first budget request for Congress is a direct assault on smart infrastructure investment that will do damage to cities and towns of all sizes — from the biggest coastal cities down to small rural towns. Tell your representatives that this proposal is a non-starter and appropriators in Congress should start from scratch.

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