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 multi-jurisdictional 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.