WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.) announced that four road and highway repair projects in Amador, Kern, Riverside, and Orange counties were awarded a combined $53.8 million from the Department of Transportation (DOT). The funding comes through the DOT's Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant program, which provides grants for locally and regionally significant surface transportation infrastructure projects.
This federal investment in California was made possible through Padilla and Schiff's championing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law....