Virginians Continue to Reap Benefits of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law on Its Three-Year Anniversary

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) released the following statement to mark the three-year anniversary of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law becoming law:

"In the past three years, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which we authored and helped pass, has been transformative for communities across Virginia. This law has upgraded our roads, railways, and airports, made our air and water cleaner, connected communities through expanded broadband access, and more. We look forward to continuing to secure investments for Virginia from this law and will do all that we can to fight for its reauthorization so the Commonwealth can benefit from it for many more years to come."

So far, Virginia has received over $10.5 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, including funding for over 350 specific projects. Read below for some examples of how Virginians across the Commonwealth are benefiting from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Augusta Free Press: Virginia receives $13M to expand rail service for Buckingham, Richmond, Bedford

Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine announced $13,317,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to expand and secure rail service across Virginia.

The funding was made possible by the bipartisan infrastructure law, landmark legislation championed by both senators.

Cardinal News: Virginia's largest megasite lands the biggest project Southside has ever seen, after years of trying

Tennessee-based Microporous, which manufactures components for electric vehicle batteries, said it will bring at least $1.3 billion in investment to the region and create more than 2,000 jobs.

The Commonwealth Times: Virginia is on track for more trains, VCU students are all aboard

The U.S. Department of Transportation is putting over $1.7 billion into Virginia's trains and rail services, a move that will increase daily trips and further connect Southern states to Washington, D.C., according to their website.

Over $1 billion will support the construction of a high-speed rail line between Richmond and Raleigh, North Carolina, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The project will restore miles of abandoned track along the S-Line Corridor, a rail line running through the Southeast that connects Richmond to Tampa, Florida. Portions of the currently closed line between Richmond, Virginia, Petersburg, Virginia and Raleigh, North Carolina have been under development for decades, according to Amtrak.

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The money for the S-Line is coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which was signed into law by President Biden in 2021, as shown on DOT's website.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin, gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Rep. Jennifer McClellan and Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner were all present when it was announced that $729 million in federal funds would go toward upgrading Northern Virginia rail corridors. The upgrade includes plans to build a new bridge across the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Virginia, according to the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority.

Inside NOVA: Buttigieg, federal lawmakers celebrate Long Bridge Project groundbreaking in Arlington

The $2.3 billion Long Bridge Project will create a four-track corridor and make nearly two miles of rail improvements over land and the Potomac River.

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Last December, Spanberger, Warner, Kaine, Connolly, Rep. Don Beyer and Rep. Jennifer McClellan held an event along with local officials and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to announce $729 million in federal funding for the Transforming Rail in Virginia Phase 2 projects.

Loudoun Now: Superfund Cleanup Begins at Hidden Lane Landfill

Sixteen years after Hidden Lane Landfill was named a federal Superfund site, the Environmental Protection Agency is beginning work to remove contaminated soil and address tainted groundwater at the former dump that sits between Broad Run Farms and CountrySide in eastern Loudoun.

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Now, with funding from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, cleanup work is beginning, and expected to last much of the rest of the year.

Northern Virginia Magazine: Dulles Gets Another $40M for New Airport Terminal Building

Airports in Virginia will get nearly $57 million in federal funding, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine said Tuesday, with the bulk of the money going toward Dulles International Airport's terminal building.

Dulles will receive $40 million from the Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Terminals Program. The money will go toward the construction of a new 14-gate, 400,000-square-foot terminal building, including "direct connections to the Aerotrain and indirect connection to the Metrorail," the senators said in a news release.

Earlier in the year, they announced additional funding for Dulles that added up to $104.6 million for the new terminal building at Dulles.

Virginia Mercury: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law aiding Virginia Energy's abandoned mine cleanup

Record amounts of funding in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law enabled OSMRE to find and diversify opportunities stemming from abandoned mine lands.

Called AMLs for short, abandoned mine lands are patches of earth dug up by previously existing mining operations that weren't restored when the businesses left prior to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, which stopped that practice from continuing.

Virginia Mercury: Federal government awards pollution cleanup funding to Dublin, Dumfries

The Southwest Virginia located town of Dublin will use their allocation for assessments, community engagements, planning and cleanup activities for sites within the 271-acre Dublin Industrial Park that include legacy pollutants from its former user, the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, which makes rocket propellants and munitions for the U.S. Military.

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In Northern Virginia-based Dumfries, funding will be similarly used for assessment, community engagement, plans to reuse and clean up the Colonial Port Corridor, which includes a 3.5 acre site at 3800 Graham Park Road and the former 147-acre Campbell Salvage Yard.

Virginia Mercury: In Va., electric vehicle infrastructure development is underway. Incentives could spur growth.

The commonwealth has received $61 million, with a future allocation of $45 million, from the federal government's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to build out charging stations along interstate highways, with one planned at least every 50 miles, and within one mile of federally identified designated alternative fuel corridors (AFCs).

Virginia Mercury: Virginia airports and trails win federal funding bids

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) just keeps on giving and giving.

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In Virginia, that translates to 45 airports getting more than $76 million for fixes. These include big airports like Washington Dulles International (which obtained $22 million) and Richmond International Airport ($6.8 million), to smaller airports like Tangier Island ($113,000) and Chesterfield's Executive ($294,000).

Virginia Mercury: White House unveils $1 billion for electric and low-emission school buses

This is a second part of funding of a $5 billion, five-year initiative from the bipartisan infrastructure law. In total, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean School Bus Program has awarded nearly $2 billion and funded approximately 5,000 electric and low-emission school buses nationwide.

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Out of the 2,737 school buses, 95% will be electric, the White House said. There are roughly half a million school buses across the U.S. used by public schools. A recent Office of Inspector General's report found that EPA's Clean Bus Program could be delayed by local utility companies trying to meet demand for electric school buses.

Virginian-Pilot: Virginia Port Authority: $83 million Norfolk International Terminals' railyard expansion complete

The Virginia Port Authority on Tuesday announced the completion of the $83 million expansion of the central railyard at Norfolk International Terminals.

The expansion at the port authority's largest terminal enables it to process the equivalent of 2 million 20-foot-long containers by rail annually, according to a news release. The project expands the authority's annual on-dock rail capacity by 31%. Rail carriers Norfolk Southern and CSX provide service to the terminal.

WAVY: Norfolk International Airport awarded $14M in federal funds

Norfolk International Airport is getting nearly $15 million in federal money for a project to help with traffic flow in and out of its main terminal area.

The funding was made possible by the Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Terminals Program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act that Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine helped pass. They announced nearly $60 million in federal improvements to airports across Virginia.

WSET: Multi-million dollar investments to bring high-speed internet to Central, Southwest Va.

There's a new billion-dollar initiative to expand broadband in the Commonwealth, and it will have major impacts for many of our local communities.

Virginia will receive $1.48 billion through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program under the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) federal Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act.

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