Grants to Support Freight Efficiency, Carbon Reduction Improvements Program, and Asset Data Infrastructure
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) was recently awarded three federal grants totaling $62 million. The funding will support safety and freight efficiency improvements on Interstate 40 over Rio Puerco in McKinley County, create the infrastructure to collect and integrate asset data to share with Navajo Nation partners, and establish programs to significantly reduce the carbon intensity of materials in our construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation activities. Details on the three grants below.
NMDOT was awarded $30,437,377 from the Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects Program (INFRA) for safety and freight efficiency improvements on Interstate 40 over Rio Puerco in McKinley County with additional works including partial reconstruction of the interstate’s approaches to the bridges. This project will replace paired bridges that carry I-40 over the Rio Puerco, which is currently in a state of deterioration, ensuring the continuity, reliability, safety, and efficiency of the movement of people and goods along the interstate corridor.
NMDOT was awarded $29,819,424 from the FY24 Low-Carbon Transportation Materials Grant (LCTM) to “stand-up” an effective and sustainable LCTM program and significantly reduce the carbon intensity of materials in our construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation activities. The initial focus will be towards asphalt and concrete materials with future work to possibly expand to the inclusion of steel, however carbon intensity reduction targets will be established as part of the program development activities. NMDOT was one of 39 states to receive funding.
NMDOT was awarded $1,858,335,45 from FY24 Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems (ADCMS). This grant will fund the program that will provide the foundation for Building Information Modeling (BIM) for infrastructure and its implementation that will enable us to collect digital-as-builts of a completed project, integrate the collected data with the existing Geographic Information System (GIS) repositories and provide up-to-date and accessible asset data. The systems developed with this grant will be included in a pilot project with our Navajo Nation partners. NMDOT was one of eight agencies awarded funding.
NMDOT was also awarded a $71 million grant for Nogal Canyon Bridge Replacement Project this year. Click for details.