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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$153,561,767

Department of Transportation·Federal Highway Administration

to TRANSPORTATION NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT

WORK BEGAN·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_693JJ22230000Y001NC0404148_069
Award description

PROJECT TITLE: I-40/I-85 TO THE DURHAM COUNTY LINE :::: PROJECT DESCRIPTION: I-40/I-85 TO THE DURHAM COUNTY LINE; WIDEN TO 6 LANES & INSTALL ITS

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds widening of I-40/I-85 corridor to six lanes and installing intelligent transportation systems in North Carolina.

Sub-sectors
highway-infrastructurefhwa-formula-grantinterstate-expansion
Why this matters

Interstate capacity expansion reduces congestion on a major East Coast freight and passenger corridor connecting Research Triangle to Durham.

Supply-chain signal

Construction demand for asphalt, concrete, steel, and ITS equipment; local contractor mobilization for multi-year project.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-24. Cost: $0.002743.

Period of performance
Start
End
2034-09-30
Status
activein 3012 days
Sources

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