Louisiana highway projects will get an extra $80 million boost from redistributed federal highway funds that other states did not spend. State officials say this is the largest amount of redistributed federal funds the state has ever received, although this could be the last year for the additional money because of a lack of matching state funds.
The Louisiana Dept. of Transportation and Development qualified for the additional federal funds after allocating all of its available federal funding to construction projects for the 2017-2018 fiscal year, which spans from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30.