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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$57,820,940

Department of Transportation·Federal Highway Administration

to DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA

ACTION DATE2026-02-18·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_693JJ21930000Z001CAP099636_069
Award description

PROJECT TITLE: KERN COUNTY NEAR WHEELER RIDGE FROM 0.8 MILE SOUTH OF ROUTE 5/99 SEPARATION TO 0.3 MILE NORTH OF OLD US 99 OVERCROSSING REPLACE CONCRETE PAVEMENT LAN :::: PROJECT DESCRIPTION: KERN COUNTY NEAR WHEELER RIDGE FROM 0.8 MILE SOUTH OF ROUTE 5/99 SEPARATION TO 0.3 MILE NORTH OF OLD US 99 OVERCROSSING REPLACE CONCRETE PAVEMENT LANES WITH CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT.

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

Replace concrete pavement lanes with continuously reinforced concrete on a highway segment in Kern County, California near Wheeler Ridge.

Sub-sectors
highway-infrastructurepavement-replacementfhwa-formula-grant
Why this matters

Maintains critical highway infrastructure on Route 5/99 corridor, a major freight and passenger route connecting California's Central Valley to Los Angeles.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for concrete, reinforcing steel, and highway construction equipment and labor in California's Central Valley region.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002196.

Period of performance
Start
End
2024-11-01
Status
expired561 days ago
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