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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Strategies to Address Engineering Workforce Challenges

Strategies to Address Engineering Workforce Challenges

Public and private sector practitioners highlight best practices to meet generational infrastructure moment. (Download) Passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in late 2021 was a ...
Governors’ Actions to Accelerate Infrastructure Projects – 2023 NGA Annual Meeting

Governors’ Actions to Accelerate Infrastructure Projects – 2023 NGA Annual Meeting

Governors are working together across party lines and state lines on common sense solutions to safely speed up the process to deliver energy and infrastructure benefits nationwide. The enactment of ...
Infrastructure Project Permitting Workshop

Infrastructure Project Permitting Workshop

Improving the permitting process for the delivery of infrastructure projects has come to the fore of late, particularly in the context of recent generational infrastructure investments like the bipartisan Infrastructure ...
Expanding the Broadband Workforce: How Three States are Preparing for Equitable Broadband Deployment 

Expanding the Broadband Workforce: How Three States are Preparing for Equitable Broadband Deployment 

The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is providing states with unprecedented amounts of funding to deploy broadband infrastructure, improve affordability and ensure meaningful adoption in communities. Governors are ...
State and Local Government Organizations urge Passage of the railway safety act of 2023

State and Local Government Organizations urge Passage of the railway safety act of 2023

The Honorable Chuck SchumerMajority LeaderUnited States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Republican LeaderUnited States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senate Leaders: On behalf of the National Governors ...
Governors Announce Bipartisan Permitting Vision to Accelerate Project Delivery

Governors Announce Bipartisan Permitting Vision to Accelerate Project Delivery

WASHINGTON – Today, National Governors Association (NGA) Vice Chair Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards released the following statement as Co-Chairs of the Energy and Infrastructure ...

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IIJA Implementation Resources

As Governors lead on implementing the historic bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the National Governors Association will be continuing to provide timely and actionable resources, create opportunities for Governors and their staff to convene and collaborate, and maintain relationships with critical federal, state, local, and private sector stakeholders.


Principles for National Infrastructure Investment

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.


Meet the Team

  • Thomas Curtin, Program Director
  • Richard Lukas, Legislative Director
  • Glenn Grimshaw, Senior Policy Analyst
  • Evan Blankenberger, Policy Analyst
  • Henry Ashley, Policy Coordinator

Initiatives

Infrastructure: Foundation For Success was the 2019-2020 Chair’s Initiative of Gov. Larry Hogan.

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Infrastructure Library

Letter on the FY 2022 Omnibus Appropriations Package

Letter on the FY 2022 Omnibus Appropriations Package

RE: Support for Inclusion of the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act in the FY 2022 Omnibus Appropriations Package The Honorable Nancy PelosiSpeakerUnited ...
Governors Ready to Deploy $5 Billion for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Governors Ready to Deploy $5 Billion for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Today, the National Governors Association’s (NGA) Economic Recovery and Revitalization Task Force Co-Chairs, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, released the following statement in connection with ...
Letter Urges Congress to Protect Critical Programs by Swiftly Passing Appropriations for FY2022

Letter Urges Congress to Protect Critical Programs by Swiftly Passing Appropriations for FY2022

If lawmakers do not agree on dedicated FY 2022 funding, many programs designed to bolster economic recovery and support critical state, territory, and local infrastructure projects will be unnecessarily delayed ...
Leveraging Historic Federal Water Infrastructure Funding to Meet Governors' Water Priorities

Leveraging Historic Federal Water Infrastructure Funding to Meet Governors’ Water Priorities

With passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Governors can make a transformational investment in stormwater infrastructure and provide more assistance to overburdened communities. by Jessica Rackley and Bevin ...
Governors Discuss Implementing The IIJA With Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Governors Discuss Implementing The IIJA With Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

A look at the discussion Governors had with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on implementing the historic bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at NGA's 2022 Winter Meeting. by Thomas Curtin, ...
Governors Convene in Person for 114th National Governors Association Winter Meeting

Governors Convene in Person for 114th National Governors Association Winter Meeting

NGA Chairman Gov. Hutchinson Unveils Compact to Expand K-12 Computer Science Education During the four-day meeting, Governors held policy discussions on topics including infrastructure investments, strategies to continue to facilitate ...
National Governors Association Highlights Infrastructure Resources at Winter Meeting

National Governors Association Highlights Infrastructure Resources at Winter Meeting

Governors Larry Hogan of Maryland (left), Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan (middle) and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas (right) join Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for a discussion on infrastructure at the National ...
Infrastructure Investments: EV Growth And Expansion

Infrastructure Investments: EV Growth And Expansion

At the 2022 NGA Winter Meeting the Economic Recovery and Revitalization Task Force held a discussion on the intersection of private industry and public policy to further EV adoption including ...
States’ Role in Addressing Foreign Threats in U.S. Critical Energy Infrastructure Sectors

States’ Role in Addressing Foreign Threats in U.S. Critical Energy Infrastructure Sectors

This issue brief examines the vulnerabilities of critical energy infrastructure sectors and assets to foreign threats and identify possible actions to address those vulnerabilities. (Download) Executive Summary The safety and ...
NGA 2022 Winter Meeting

NGA 2022 Winter Meeting

The National Governors Association's 114th annual Winter Meeting was January 28-31, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Governors met to discuss best practices and bipartisan collaboration on leading policy issues including infrastructure, ...
State of the States 2022

State of the States 2022

Governors of states, territories and commonwealths are outlining their priorities for 2022 in state of the state or commonwealth addresses, as well as inaugural addresses for new and re-elected Governors ...
NGA Hosts Summit to Begin Implementation of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

NGA Hosts Summit to Begin Implementation of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Governors will continue to be at the forefront leading the implementation of these historic infrastructure investments. by Glenn Grimshaw The National Governors Association convened a bipartisan group of Governors and ...