Tennessee also is receiving $2.8 million and West Virginia $1.7 million – bringing to $17.5 million the total grant for this project.

The $17.5 million grant was awarded under the Recovery Act’s TIGER program. TIGER funding is designed to promote innovative, multimodal and multijurisdictional transportation projects that provide significant economic and environmental benefits to an entire metropolitan area, region or the nation.

The Department announced the selection of $1.5 billion worth of TIGER grants for 51 projects as part of the one-year anniversary of the Recovery Act on February 17.