Stimulus breakdown for Construction

Feb 24, 2009

Transportation ($49.3 billion)

• Highways: $27.5 billion
• Transit: $8.4 billion
• New discretionary grant program: $1.5 billion for highways, transit, rail, seaports, other projects.
• Airport improvement: $1.1 billion
• Rail: $9.3 billion, including $1.3 billion for Amtrak, $8 billion for high-speed rail
• Port, transit, rail security: $300 million
• DHS/Transportation Security Administration: $1 billion to procure, install airport explosives-detection, baggage scanning equipment
• Coast Guard, bridge alterations: $142 million
• Coast Guard, acquisition, construction, improvements: $98 million

Defense/Veterans ($7.8 billion)

• VA: $1.25 billion for hospital and other medical facility construction and upgrades
• DOD: $4.24 billion for "facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization."
• DOD: $2.3 billion for facilities projects including housing. hospitals, child-care center, and other military "quality-of-life" projects.

Housing/HUD ($9.6 billion)

• HUD Public Housing Capital Fund: $4 billion
• HUD redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes: $2 billion
• HUD energy retrofits, "green" projects in HUD-assisted housing projects: $250 million
• HUD Community Development Block Grants (housing services, infrastructure): $1 billion
• HOME investment partnerships: $2.25 billion
• Lead-paint abatement :$100 million

Energy ($30.6 billion)

• Electricity grid: $11 billion
• Home-weatherization assistance: $5 billion
• Energy-efficiency and conservation grants: $6.3 billion
• Renewable-energy loan guarantees: $6 billion
• Carbon-capture-and-sequestration demonstration projects: $1.52 billion
• Clean Coal Power Initiative: $800 million

Buildings ($13.4 billion)

• GSA federal buildings, energy-efficiency upgrades: $4.5 billion
• Border stations, ports of entry: $300 million
• Facilities on federal and tribal lands : $3.1 billion
• Fire stations (federal grants): $210 million
• GSA new Dept. of Homeland Security headquarters: $450 million
• GSA U.S. courthouses, other federal buildings: $300 million
• Agriculture Dept. bldgs/facilities: $200 million
• Agriculture Dept. rural facilities: $130 million
• NIST construction: $360 million
• NOAA procurement, acquisition and construction: $430 million
• NASA construction (hurricane damage repairs): $50 million
• National Science Foundation academic facilities modernization: $200 million
• NSF major research equipment and facilities construction: $400 million
• DHS consolidation: $200 million
• DHS ports of entry: $420 million
• Smithsonian facilities: $25 million
• National Institutes of Health, grant for construction, renovation of non-NIH research facilities: $1 billion
• NIH buildings and facilities (construction, renovation): $500 million
• State Dept. Capital Investment Fund: $90 million

Water and Environment ($20.1 billion)

• DOE environmental cleanup: $6 billion
• EPA Clean Water and Drinking Water funds: $6 billion
• EPA cleanup, including Superfund: $1.2 billion
• Agriculture Dept., rural-water and waste-disposal facilities: $1.28 billion
• Corps of Engineers civil works: $4.6 billion
• Bureau of Reclamation: $1 billion