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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced its final rule amending the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) and Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) programs to...more
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced a long-awaited Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for public agencies to enhance technical capacity to deliver projects using a public-private partnership...more
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $3.33 billion in grants for 132 projects to reconnect communities previously cut off by transportation infrastructure, addressing historic disparities. These initiatives, part...more
The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on March 7, 2024, announced a proposed rule that would discontinue its longstanding Buy America waiver for manufactured products used in FHWA-funded...more
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) (SFFA), which limits the reach of race-based affirmative action programs in...more
On October 6, 2023—less than a week into its new 2024 fiscal year (FY)—the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced a new list of mega construction designees, identifying twelve new construction...more
The federal government recently released long-awaited guidance regarding the Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act requirements included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58; IIJA). On August 14, 2023,...more
Infratech, an amalgamation of “infrastructure” and “technology,” refers generally to the development and implementation of new technologies in infrastructure. Just as refrigerators and other household appliances have...more
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced that it will offer more low-cost flexible financing for both transit and Transit Oriented Development projects under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance...more
The Ohio Department of Transportation has statutory authority to appropriate real property, but there are limitations to this authority. Among other limitations, ODOT must pay just compensation for the take....more
Orrick’s Matthew Neuringer was joined by Dr. Morteza Farajian, Executive Director of the Build America Bureau, to discuss the Bureau’s priorities after the historic passing of the Infrastructure Act, including expanded...more
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which President Biden is expected to sign into law, contains some important changes to the federal environmental review process for surface transportation projects. Most...more
Like many other state agencies, Texas stay-at-home orders issued in response to COVID-19 have shuttered many TxDOT offices since mid-March. ...more
On March 24, the Ohio Department of Transportation released a “Statement Regarding COVID-19 Response” in an attempt to provide guidance for contractors working on ODOT projects...more
As of Thursday, March 19, 2020, Ohio State agencies are reporting that construction projects will continue, despite the Coronavirus. The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) directed office staff, who are able, to work...more
This installment of our National P3 Update focuses on transportation. While the transportation sector has dominated the U.S. P3 market over the last decade, the sector has experienced stagnation since the financial close of...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“Eighth Circuit”) addressed in a December 6th opinion an appeal from a United States Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas (“District Court”) decision that denied...more
Buckingham Tax Attorneys Steve Dimengo and Rich Fry recently obtained a favorable ruling from the 9th District Court of Appeals for their client in Karvo Paving Co. v. Testa, 2019-Ohio-3974. This victory enables highway and...more
1. Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance (“M-CORES”) - Three potential new Florida Public-Private Partnerships (“P3”). On May 17, 2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law SB 7068 (the “Bill”),...more
PennDOT recently awarded the second phase of a local state highway improvement project to Allan Myers, L.P., one of the top nonunion construction and materials companies building infrastructure projects throughout the...more
Dep’t of Transp. v. Seattle Tunnel Partners, 2019 BL 36988, 2 (Wash. App. Div. 2 Feb. 05, 2019) - On January 8, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the State of Washington reversed and remanded in part a trial court’s grant of...more
Part One of this series focused on the Arkansas Department of Transportation’s (“ARDOT”) first major project using the design-build project delivery method – 30 Crossing. Since then, ARDOT has awarded the 30 Crossing Project...more
Under the Arkansas Code, the Arkansas Department of Transportation (“ARDOT”), via the Arkansas Highway Commission, can procure a transportation project using the design-build project delivery method. In fact, ARDOT is...more
As noted in the previous post (see post here), five individuals filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on July 18th addressing what they describe as construction involving the...more
Five individuals filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on July 18th addressing what they describe as construction involving the widening of Interstate Highway 630 (“I-630...more