SLO County airports, clean water projects get funding through federal infrastructure bill
Infrastructure projects along the Central Coast received millions of dollars in federal funding as part of a bipartisan bill, according to a Monday news release from U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal.
The Central Coast received $8 million of the nearly $10 billion that was distributed to the state of California by the bill, which was signed into law in November 2021, the release said.
That money will go to making improvements to transportation, climate, energy and environment projects.
Roughly half of those Central Coast projects that got federal money via the infrastructure bill are in San Luis Obispo County. They include:
- San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport: $2.4 million
- Paso Robles Municipal Airport: $295,000
- Oceano County Airport: $110,000 to the
- Cambria Seawater Desalination Plant: $200,000
- Morro Bay Harbor: $23,875, and
- Port San Luis Harbor: $22,875
The money for the airport projects will be handled by the Federal Aviation Administration and the money for clean water infrastructure will be funded through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to the release.
“These funds are just the beginning for what is to come from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for the Central Coast,” Carbajal, who represents District 24 in Congress, said in the release. “The investments that our landmark legislation will deliver over the next half decade will create jobs and grow our local economies for years to come.”
The map below shows all of the infrastructure projects related to the federal bill.
