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The BUILD Act was introduced in the House and Senate in February 2018 with broad bipartisan support, [12] based on proposals drafted by researchers at the Center for Global Development. [11] It passed the Senate as a part of a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration on a vote of 93–6 in early October 2018; it had already been ...
The U.S. government designed TIGER grants in order to incentivize bettering environmental problems and reducing the United States' dependence on energy.On the economic front, the United States hopes infrastructure investment will encourage job creation, a pressing political priority; this would likely require the project to be shovel-ready.
In October 2018, President Trump signed into law the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, allocating more than $6 billion (~$7.17 billion in 2023) on water infrastructure spending of all kinds. [103] This bipartisan bill authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to manage water resource projects and policies nationwide.
The Build!Build! Build! Infrastructure Program (BBB) was the infrastructure program of the administration of Rodrigo Duterte, the 16th president of the Philippines.A key component of his socioeconomic policy, the program aimed to reduce poverty, encourage economic growth and reduce congestion in Metro Manila, and address the country's infrastructure gap.
Commercial Engagement Through Ocean Technology Act of 2018 (or CENOTE Act of 2018) To require the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to carry out a program on coordinating the assessment and acquisition by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of unmanned maritime systems, to make available to the public data ...
On July 10, 2019, the president of the United States announced his intent to nominate Boehler for the position of chief executive officer of the newly formed U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, a government agency formed through the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development (BUILD) Act as a consolidation of the ...
Of the Act's top ten recipients, seven states had voted majority Republican, with Wyoming ($1.95 billion) and Texas ($1.71 billion) in the lead. The largest single energy project to receive Act funds was a Generation IV reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming by the nuclear fission startup TerraPower. [147]
On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 [1] was released. The text was posted to the web site of the United States House Committee on Rules at 10:00 p.m. [2] H.R. 1625, formerly the TARGET act, was used as a legislative vehicle for the appropriations bill. [3]