Funding Finance, which represents almost a quarter of the North Carolina Department of Transportation of the nearby transport, according to state officials.
The project received a subsidy of $ 242 million from the Federal Administration of the United States transport road last year, but currently the funding stops as part of a review of the grants led by President Donald Trump in an executive order on February 26, NCDOT representative Andrew Barksdale told Email.
The project is still in design and NCDOT has not yet selected a preferred alternative for the replacement bridge, which would carry the US 17, USA 76 and 421 roads through the Cape Fear river in Wilmington, the NC state officials plan to obtain a minimum authorization for the Spring Bridge or the Summer of the United States and NCDOT Coast Guard and the NCDOT Army Corps. pursuing the necessary environmental documents, according to Barksdale. Officials are on the right way to finish these documents by 2026.
If funding is revoked, NCDOT is “not determined” about whether it can still continue with the project, according to Barksdale.
Court orders end up freezing —
While this funding is held in Limbo, a Rhode Island District Court judge ordered on March 6 federal agencies to stop holding money already appropriate for Congress. North Carolina was incorporated into another 21 states and in the district of Columbia in filing a federal demand against Trump administration in January, after a white house management office and a budget note that led a widespread freezing of federal expenses. This note has been terminated since then, but the state of the funds is still unclear. Judge John McConnell Jr. ordered a temporary order in favor of the states, expanding a block of funding freezing in the states.
Trump’s executive branch “was over the congress,” McConnell wrote. “He imposed a categorical term on the expense of the appropriate funds and forced in Congress without taking into account the Congress authority to control spending.”
The judge had already issued a temporary restraint order, but issued the order after the state’s lawyers intended to prevent the Trump administration from freezing additional funds. The arrangement obtains a board of federal agencies to “stop, freeze, block, cancel, suspend, end or prevent the disbursement of federal funds appropriate to the states by virtue of awarded subsidies, executed contracts or other financial obligations executed.”
Ncdot refused to comment on active litigation and affect the state of the financing of the replacement of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge.
The CAPE Memorial Bridge grant was announced last summer along with 12 other Bridge Project subsidies for $ 5 billion from the Investment and Infrastructure jobs Law of 2021.
Tennessee’s Department of Transport was another of the winners, which received $ 394 million for his River Crossing Project in America, which replaced a bridge that carried the interstate 55 through the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tenn. And West Memphis, Ark. Tennessee is not part of Rhode Island’s federal demand. Nichole Lawrence, a communications officer with the Tennessee Department of Transport, said in an email that TDot is confident that federal funding is “not in danger” and that officials proceed as planned to deliver the project.
Other recipients of the subsidy contacted by Enr did not immediately answer the questions about their funding.
