The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has pumped over $4 billion into the Mountain West in just two years

The Department of the Interior has so far allocated over $8 billion of BIL funding nationwide, according to <a href="https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/doi.bil/viz/DOIBILProjectMap/DOIBILProjectMap" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">interactive data published by the department</a>. That funding has gone to over 1,450 projects across seven categories: Addressing Drought, Ecosystem Restoration, Indian Water Rights Settlements, Legacy Pollution, Scientific Innovation, Tribal Investments, and Wildland Fire. In the Mountain West, Interior has invested <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tByxzXEejxXfrnbV6nqQuLEm-lBnux2YrrgT_KIv2FI/edit#gid=1810785300" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">over $4 billion</a> of BIL funding in <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tByxzXEejxXfrnbV6nqQuLEm-lBnux2YrrgT_KIv2FI/edit#gid=2063438155" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">501 projects</a>. These include 149 projects to address drought, 195 ecosystem restoration projects, 21 Indian water rights settlements, 23 projects cleaning up legacy pollution, 24 scientific innovation projects, 26 Tribal investment projects, and 63 wildland fire projects. <a href="https://medium.com/westwise/the-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-has-pumped-over-4-billion-into-the-mountain-west-in-just-two-e5faa7701c61">Learn More</a>