These awards are funded through the Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization grant program created by the Biden-Harris Administration’s 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The law authorized a nearly $1 billion investment over five years to modernize community-owned natural gas distribution pipes, helping lower energy costs for ratepayers, reduce methane pollution, and keep communities safe from pipeline failures.
This announcement brings the total amount awarded under the grant program to nearly $800 million across 227 projects in underserved rural and urban communities across 29 states since the program was created in 2022. Grant recipients are on track to repair, rehabilitate, or replace more than 1,000 miles of aging natural gas pipes and reduce nearly 1,000 metric tons of methane pollution, annually.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America Agenda continues to grow the American economy from the bottom up and middle-out, not the top-down – from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to creating a manufacturing and innovation boom powered by good-paying jobs that don’t require a four-year degree, to building a clean-energy economy that will reduce costs for Americans and make our communities safer and more resilient.
Funding these projects also advances the Biden-Harris Administration’s U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, leveraging all available tools to reduce methane emissions while protecting public health, promoting U.S. innovation in new technologies, lowering energy costs for families by reducing inefficiency and waste, and supporting good-paying jobs for thousands of skilled workers across the country. Methane pollution has 80 times the global warming potential as carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
For more information about the grant program or projects that have been awarded funding, as well as additional resources for applicants and stakeholders, visit the grant program’s homepage. https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/about-phmsa/working-phmsa/grants/pipeline/natural-gas-distribution-infrastructure-safety-and-modernization-grants.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration develops and enforces regulations for the safe, reliable, and environmentally sound operation of the nation’s 3.3-million-mile pipeline transportation system and the nearly 1.2 million daily shipments of hazardous materials by land, sea, and air. Please visit https://www.phmsa.dot.gov for more information.
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Original article published by PHMSA