Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the foundation states are built upon. It impacts everything from economic development and global competitiveness to our quality of life, safety, environment, and resiliency. Governors have taken action to enhance infrastructure, including creating new and increasing existing funding streams, advancing public-private partnerships, addressing regulatory delays, improving transparency, and promoting innovation.
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State Insights on the Water-Energy Nexus and Policy Ideas to Achieve Greater Savings
This paper provides an overview of challenges that states are facing in developing integrated water and energy conservation policies; provides background on Arizona and Wisconsin’s innovative water-energy policies and programs; ...
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Governors Rev Up Momentum on Infrastructure
The co-chairs of the National Governors Association’s Economic Recovery and Revitalization Task Force discussed the vital federal-state partnership on infrastructure during a meeting with fellow Governors as they demonstrate bipartisan ...
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Governors Hogan and Whitmer Testify on Importance of Infrastructure Investment
Governors struck a resoundingly bipartisan tone before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, speaking to the urgency of investing now and for the future as our infrastructure must rapidly ...
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NGA 2021 Winter Meeting
On February 25, 2021 NGA held a Virtual Winter Meeting. Governors met to discuss issues around public health and economic recovery and engaged with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on infrastructure ...
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Governors Propose Infrastructure Investments to Support Long Term Economic Recovery
As the nation’s economy looks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, states are positioned to maximize the benefits from infrastructure investments. by Thomas Curtin, Program Director, Infrastructure As the nation ...
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BUILD TO LAST
Governors are calling on Capitol Hill to:
- Create certainty and stability in long-term federal resources to ensure workforce and economic vitality through dedicated funding and financing.
- Fix and expand existing infrastructure and invest in resiliency and security to modernize it for future generations.
- Streamline project delivery, increase transparency, while achieving environmental protection.
- Embrace new practices and technologies that provide innovative solutions to traditional infrastructure needs.
Meet our Team
- Thomas Curtin, Program Director
- Jake Varn, Policy Analyst
Initiatives
Infrastructure: Foundation For Success was the 2019-2020 Chair’s Initiative of Gov. Larry Hogan.
Infrastructure Library
Testimony – Surface Transportation Reauthorization
Statement of The Honorable Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama Vice Chair, Economic Development and Commerce Committee, National Governors Association Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee On “The Importance ...
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Municipal Broadband Networks
Ms. Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary Office of the Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W., Room TW-A325 Washington, D.C. 20554 RE: WCB Docket Nos. 14-115 and 14-116 (Seeking Preemption ...
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Highway Trust Fund – Big 7
The Honorable John Boehner Speaker of the House United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable ...
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Highway Trust Fund
The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Minority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable John Boehner Speaker of ...
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Primary Freight Network Designation
U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE W12 - 140 Washington, DC 20590 Governors were encouraged that the 2012 surface transportation bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the ...
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Testimony – Surface Transportation Reauthorization
Statement of The Honorable Mary Fallin, Governor of Oklahoma & Chair, National Governors Association before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on “Building the Foundation for Surface Transportation Reauthorization” January ...
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How States and Territories Fund Transportation: An Overview of Traditional and Nontraditional Strategies
This report provides states with an overview of traditional funding mechanisms, profiles of new and innovative programs at work in the United States and overseas, and a summary of each ...
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Innovative State Transportation Funding and Financing
This paper extends and updates earlier work by: (1) providing case studies of state and international experience with a full range of policy options, (2) addressing new options that have ...
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Testimony – Infrastructure
Chairwoman Norton, Ranking Member Diaz-Balart, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today on the important issue of catastrophic planning and disaster ...
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State Efforts to Expand Broadband Access
This Issue Brief reviews state efforts to expand broadband access by offering examples of implementation strategies. In addition, we highlight how broadband access can spur economic development and improve quality ...
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Testimony – surface transportation
Thank you, Madam Secretary and the members of the Commission for hosting this roundtable with national organizations representing state and local governments. I am Ray Scheppach, Executive Director of the ...
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Testimony – Highway and Transit Needs
Good morning. Chairman Petri, Ranking Member Lipinski, and members of the Subcommittee, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today as Chairman of the National Governors Association to discuss ...
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