WASHINGTON, April 6 -- Sen. Susan Collins issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the State of Maine will receive $65 million for two rural infrastructure projects through the U.S. Department of Transportation's Competitive Highway Bridge Program (CHBP). Created by Senator Collins and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) in 2018 as leaders of the Senate Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, the CHBP funds highway bridge replacement or rehabilitation projects on public roads that serve rural communities. Maine will receive an outsized proportion-16 percent-of the $408 million awarded nationally through this program bec...