With the help of 13 Republican representatives to turn the tide of the vote, the U.S. Congress was able to pass the $1.2 trillion spending package. Now it will be sent to Biden to get his signature on it.
Courtesy of Randoland.us, here is the long breakdown of the spending, what it is for, and links to where the bill directly says where the money is supposed to be sent and spent:
$273 billion for the Federal-Aid Highway Program
For the surface transportation block grant program, the highway safety program, the congestion mitigation program, air quality program, national highway freight program, and carbon reduction program
$1.25 billion for the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program
$3 billion for the Tribal Transportation Program
$2.2 billion for the Federal Lands Transportation Program
$1.4 billion for the National Park Service
$180 million for the US Fish and Wildlife Service
$130 million for the Forestry Service
$1.5 billion for the Federal Lands Access Program
$1.14 billion for the Territorial and Puerto Rico Highway Program
Hopefully some of it helps AOC’s abuela.
$2.7 billion for the Bridge Investment Program
$250 million for the Congestion Relief Program
Part of the climate change appropriations. Will aim to reduce road use through fees on parking, road use, and congestion
$2.5 billion for Charging and Fueling Infrastructure grants
$2 billion for the Rural Surface Transportation Program
$1.4 billion in PROTECT grants
Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient and Cost-saving Transportation, a new climate change initiative
$250 million for reducing truck emissions at port facilities
$275 million for Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects
Additional $3.3 billion for the Bridge Investment Program
Additional $1.5 billion for Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects Program
$500 million for the Healthy Streets Program
Created to “provide funding to deploy cool and porous pavements and expand tree cover to mitigate urban heat islands, improve air quality, and reduce flood risks”
Must conduct equity assessments for tree canopy gaps in marginalized communities
$500 million for Transportation Resilience and Adaptation Centers of Excellence
$75 million for the Open Challenge and Research Proposal Pilot Program
Provides grants for “proposals to research needs or challenges identified or determined as important by the Secretary”. A slush fund for Mayor Pete.
$735 million for the Highway Research and Development Program
$550 million for the Technology and Innovation Deployment Program
$127.5 million for Training and Education
$550 million for the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
A federal program that “enhances American productivity through the integration of advanced communications technologies into the transportation infrastructure and in vehicles
$405 million for the University Transportation Systems Program
Grants to colleges and universities for transportation research and development
$132.5 million for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The BTS director is by law Mayor Pete’s senior advisor
$350 million for the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program
$50 million for the Prioritization Process Pilot Program
Could have just taken a Lean Six Sigma course?
$500 million for the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program
New pilot program to study the feasibility and impacts of removing an existing transportation facility that “creates a barrier to community activity”
$150 million for Planning Grants
$350 million for Capital Construction Grants
Annual listing of “socially disadvantaged businesses enterprises”
With federal in-person inspections to verify the business owners are “socially disadvantaged”
$100 million for the Tribal Transportation Facility Bridge Set-Aside
$570 million for the construction of ferry boats and ferry terminals
$25 million for bollard installation (big posts to stop terrorists in cars)
$1.1 billion for the Appalachian Regional Energy Hub Initiative
Will study the effectiveness of a giant ethane storage and distribution system, and “will help establish a regional energy hub in the Appalachian region for natural gas and natural gas liquids, including hydrogen”
Joe Manchin’s wife is the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.
$100 million for the Denali Commission
An Alaskan development fund. Senator Murkowski will be pleased.
Transfer and Sale of Toll Credits Pilot program
States accumulate credits from toll collections, and use them to get federal money for projects. Sort of like carbon credits. So get ready for more toll roads.
Study on the impact of self driving cars on roads
Review of disaster response training
Evaluations will ensure adequate bicycle use and maintenance knowledge
Study on non-highway recreational fuel use
Tax revenue will be assessed to determine funding levels for the Recreational Trails Program
$75 million for studying how to enact income-based road usage taxes
Also studies using third parties (big tech) to collect road use data and fees.
Also a public awareness campign to warm us up to it.
$50 million for a per-mile road usage fee pilot program
Volunteer drivers will test a per-mile road usage fee nationwide.
Tracking methods will include third-party on-board diagnostic (OBD-II) devices, smart phone applications, telemetric data collected by automakers, motor vehicle data obtained by car insurance companies.
The advisory board for the program must include “advocacy groups focused on equity”.
High Friction Surface Treatment Application study
The study will assess using bauxite on roads (has been done forever), and also incorporate renewables into pavement design.
$100 million for digital construction management systems
A new “Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles”
New mobility means Byrd scooters.
Transportation Resilience and Adaptation Centers of Excellence
These centers will “support climate vulnerability assessments informed by climate change science”
$270 million for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Road Maintenance Program
Such sums as may be necessary for the Office of Multimodal Freight Infrastructure and Policy
Mayor Pete is to establish a new office, and eliminate any other departments that do any duplicative work. The office will carry out the national multimodal freight policy, and conduct research into multimodal freight mobility.
$10 million to incentivize interstate freight compacts
$10 billion for “Multimodal Infrastructure Project Grants”
Some of the criteria for project selection include whether a project would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, “would benefit a historically disadvantaged community or population” or would benefit pedestrians and bicyclists
$4 billion for the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Program
$18.75 million for the National multimodal cooperative freight research program
Mayor Pete will establish this program. It will have an advisory committee composed of federal, state, and local authorities, unions, universities, non-profits, and provate sector entities.
The committee will establish a “national research agenda” and issue grants to achieve objectives such as “diversifying the freight workforce”, automation, and promoting zero-emission transportation.
$19.2 billion in grants for Amtrak
$6.57 billion for the Northeast Corridor
$12.7 billion for the National Network
$1.54 billion for the Federal Railroad Administration
$1.315 billion for Safety and Operations
$225 million for Railroad Research and Development, including a Rail Research and Development and a $3 million Transportation Technology Center
$5 billion for Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement grants
$2.5 billion for the “Railroad Crossing Elimination Program”
Goals are to “eliminate highway-rail grade crossings that are frequently blocked by trains, to improve the health and safety of communities, to reduce the impacts that freight movement and railroad operations may have on underserved communities, and to improve the mobility of people and goods”.
Grant applicants will be evaluated “to the degree to which the proposed project will use construction materials that reduce greenhouse gas emissions” and whether the proposed project will “improve the use of nonvehicular modes of transportation, such as pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transportation”.
Also $6.25 million for teaching people how to not get hit by trains
$750 million for passenger rail “restoration and enhancement” grants
$1.5 billion for Intercity Passenger Rail grants
$137.5 million for the Amtrak Inspector General
Upgraded Amtrak food and beverage service
Smoking ban on Amtrak trains
Enhancements of Amtrak cross-border service to Canada
$15 million for a study to encourage long-distance Amtrak commuting
Study will include working to establish “activities and programs” along Amtrak routes to encourage use
$4.4 billion for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
$1.875 billion for administrative expenses
$2.0325 billion for carrying out the motor carrier safety assistance program
$300 million for the high priority program
$6.5 million to carry out the commercial motor vehicle operators grant program
$217.5 million to carry out the financial assistance program for commercial driver’s license implementation
Promoting Women in the trucking workforce
Complete with a “Women trucker advisory board”
Mandatory automatic braking systems on commercial vehicles
New crashworthiness standards for limousines
$5 billion for the Highway Traffic Safety administration
$1.892 billion for Highway safety programs
$970 million for Highway safety research and development
$201.6 million for the “High-visibility enforcement program”
$1.7645 billion for National Priority Safety Programs
$206 million for administrative expenses
$36 million for the National Driver Register
$1.04 billion for Vehicle Safety
For recall studies, backseat law standardization, new car assessment studies, hood and bumper standards, and crash avoidance technology.
Mandatory breathalyzer technology on all new cars
Fat crash test dummies
$50 million for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
$500 million for “Strengthening mobility and revolutionizing transportation” grants
Grants will be for public transportation systems to reduce congestion, improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, improve energy efficiency, etc.
An electric vehicle working group
“…to make recommendations regarding the development, adoption, and integration of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty electric vehicles into the transportation and energy systems of the United States”
$95 million for the University Transportation Centers program
$250 million for the Advanced Transportation Research Initiative
Study can be on whatever the Secretary of Transportation deems important
$25 million for the Transportation Workforce Outreach Program
Program will “target awareness of professional opportunities in the transportation sector to diverse segments of the population, including with respect to race, sex, ethnicity, ability, veteran status, and socioeconomic status”
Support for studies on driving under the influence of Marijuana
A national clearinghouse for distributing marijuana for these studies will be established.
$345 million for the Hazardous Materials Program
$70.2 billion for Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund
$966 million for Planning Programs
$69 million for Metropolitan Transport Planning
$33.5 billion for financial assistance for urbanized areas
$1.94 billion for services for enhanced mobility of seniors and the disabled
$24.1 million for a pilot program for “innovative access and mobility”
$4.6 billion for rural mass transit planning, projects, and operating costs
$193 million for mass transit research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects
$62 million for technical assistance and standards development ($34 million reserved for the national transit institute)
$26.1 million for bus testing
$696 million for administrative provisions (lawsuits, foreclosures, buying/selling property, fee collection for conferences)
$22 million for the National Transit Database
$18.3 billion for “State of Good Repair” grants
$2.3 billion for the buses and bus facilities program and no or low emissions grants
$3.9 billion for urban and rural public transportation operating costs
$15 billion for fixed guideway capital investment grants
$750 million for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
$25 billion for Preventing Outages and enhancing resilience of the electric grid
$25 billion for electric grid reliability research, development, deployment, and demonstration
$5 billion for Energy improvement in rural areas
Grants may be issued for the purpose of “reducing greenhouse gas emissions”
“Demand response practices” (Energy rationing)
“Each electric utility shall promote the use of demand-response and demand flexibility practices by commercial, residential, and industrial consumers to reduce electricity consumption during periods of unusually high demand”
$3 billion for Deployment of Technologies to Enhance Grid Flexibility
Including network-controlled devices to control energy usage
$2.5 billion for State Energy Programs
Including programs to “help reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector by 2050 and accelerate the use of alternative transportation fuels for, and the electrification of, State government vehicles, fleet vehicles, taxis and ridesharing services, mass transit, school buses, ferries, and privately owned passenger and medium- and heavy-duty vehicles”
A study on using dead electric vehicle batteries to power nursing homes and public housing
Roughly $500 million to increase bilateral transfers of renewable electricity generation between Canada and the western US
Amount is dependent on the value of the Canadian Entitlement for the past 5 years
$100 million for increased hydroelectric capacity at the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant
$10 million to study if increased cooperation with Canada on hydroelectric facilities will reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Rural and municipal utility advanced cybersecurity grants: $250,000,000
Energy sector cybersecurity research and development: $250,000,000
Energy Sector Operational Support for Cyber-resilience Program: $50,000,000
Modeling and Assessing Energy Infrastructure Risk: $50,000,000
Earth Mapping Resources Initiative: $320,000,000
The US Geological Survey will carry out advanced mapping of minerals critical to “clean energy technologies”
US Geological Survey Energy and Minerals Research Facility: $167,000,000
Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility: $140,000,000
Battery Material Processing grants: $3,000,000,000
Battery Manufacturing and Recycling grants: $3,000,000,000
Lithium Ion Battery Recycling Prize Competition: $10,000,000
Battery and critical mineral recycling: $60,000,000
State and local battery recycling programs: $50,000,000
Grants for retailers to serve as battery collection points: $15,000,000
Electric Drive Vehicle Battery Recycling and Second-Life applications program: $200,000,000
Advanced energy manufacturing and recycling projects grants: $750,000,000
Projects must “provide higher net impact in avoiding or reducing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases”.
Priority will be given to entities that are minority-owned.
Critical Minerals Mining and Recycling Research: $400,000,000
The 21st Century Workforce Advisory Board
The board will focus on “bringing underrepresented groups” into the energy industry workforce, and “make resources available to increase the number of skilled minorities and women trained to go into the energy and energy-related manufacturing sectors”.
Carbon Utilization Program: $310,140,781
Grants shall be used to procure or use products that that are derived from anthropogenic carbon dioxide or reduce greenhouse gases.
Carbon Capture Technology Program: $100,000,000
Grants shall be used to procure or use products that that are derived from anthropogenic carbon dioxide or reduce greenhouse gases.
Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation: $2,100,000,000
Funding for carbon dioxide pipelines and infrastructure, a program particularly beneficial to North Dakota (Kevin Cramer was one of the Republicans who voted for this bill).
Large Scale Carbon Storage Commercialization Program: $2,500,000,000
Secure Geologic Storage Permitting: $50,000,000
4 Regional Carbon Capture Hubs: $3,500,000,000
4 Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs: $8,000,000,000
Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing and Recycling Program: $500,000,000
Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program: $1,000,000,000
Civil Nuclear Credits Program: $6,000,000,000
A grant program for nuclear reactors on the verge of shutting down
Hydroelectric Production Incentives: $125,000,000
Hydroelectric Efficiency Improvement Incentives: $75,000,000
Hydroelectric maintenance grants: $553,600,000
Pumped Storage Hydropower Wind and Solar Integration and System Reliability Initiative: $2,000,000
Mandatory state promotion of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure
Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund: $250,000,000
Energy Auditor Training Grant Program: $40,000,000
Energy auditors will conduct energy audits of commercial and residential buildings to assess their energy usage
Energy Efficiency Building Code Implementation: $225,000,000
Energy Efficiency Training Centers (universities/colleges): $10,000,000
Renewables/Energy Efficiency Training Centers (non-profits): $10,000,000
“Smart Manufacturing Technologies” grants: $50,000,000
Grants for Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Improvements in Public Schools: $500,000,000
Includes purchase/lease of alternative fuel vehicles
Energy Efficient Materials Pilot Program: $50,000,000
Non-profit buildings will be awarded grants for energy efficient materials
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Program: $550,000,000
Assisting Federal Facilities Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Program: $550,000,000
Energy Efficiency Rebates: $40,000,000
Orphaned Well Site Plugging, Remediation, and Restoration: $4,707,000,000
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: $11,293,000,000
Forest Service Legacy Road and Trail Remediation Program: $250,000,000
Wildfire Risk Reduction: $3,369,200,000
Ecosystem Restoration: $2,130,000,000
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs 15:27
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Amos 5:12
If you actually took the time to read what they are doing (or say that they are going to do), it is just more useless boondoggling per usual. And beyond the billions being used to fund more “woke” programs, the huge bulk of it is for all this garbage is for this climate emergency nonsense.
The way I see it, this money will not be used for hardly any of what they say it will (as none of the infrastructure bills ever actually go to REAL infrastructure and construction); rather, just divided up amongst all the government’s criminal friends.
Furthermore, when you have people getting fired left and right over these mandates, many refusing to go back to work, supply-chain shortages (especially when this nation produces nothing), and this Covid death shot die-off, the money will never get put to “use.” However, I do think America is and will continue to be a “trial” nation to see how this green tech will work, though I question how long that will last.
Military Intelligence Group Forecasts A 70% Decrease In The U.S. Population By 2025
Death Shot: Media Says More Vaccinated Patients Are Dying, But Blames It On “Waning Immunity”
Expect even MORE inflation and endless printing, keeping the euphoric stock market pumped high.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Thank you. There was so much garbage & disinformation that I confess to waiting for your recap with better sources.
As suspected, just more ‘transferring the wealth’ and white collar welfare bribes to puff the already overly puffed vanity & self-righteousness of the ‘wise’, the ‘survivor’, the world ‘savior’ by craft class with the big guys in Rome & craft Jews at the core & head of the thing. Seductive, pretty lie garbage & distraction from the kill-off, imposition & forced change, but God is neither mocked nor blind, and the way of Christ is freely offered, freely received …offered & received in the light. Those who turn a blind eye to go into the not-so-smart cities will be getting a rude awakening when the events of Zechariah & Revelation jar them awake though it seems few will repent with that legitimate repentance not to be repented of, with humility & brokenness….rather than from blindness to blindness, & death to death. Ground to powder.
Lu 20:17-18 KJB And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? :18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
John 1,3 & 8 KJB. This is just more of the vomit & wallows as the bottom of the bottom of the Romans 1 slide & 2 Peter 2&3, Jude KJB.
And these are just the things that we are allowed to see! God only knows what is behind their coded language, and the micro-sized fine print.