Hickman Co. Receives BIP Funding
The Hickman County Highway Department is one of just 23 entities across the country to receive a planning grant under the Bridge Investment Program (BIP), the federally authorized program administered as part of the IIJA, passed last year by Congress.
The first round of planning grants under BIP provides $18.4 million in Fiscal Year 2022 funding for 23 projects in 23 states. Hickman County is the only recipient in Tennessee. These grants are designed to be used to create a pipeline of future bridge construction projects to improve safety, support economic competitiveness, and to provide resilient highway infrastructure that is better able to withstand the effects of climate change, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.
Hickman County is scheduled to receive $120,000 from the grant to go towards the total cost of the project, estimated at $150,000 for a county-wide planning program. The department will perform a feasibility analysis of its 213 bridges and identify which of these bridges would be most in need for bridge replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, or protection.
