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White House urges states to name infrastructure coordinators

January 18, 2022

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Some governors have already started appointing their own infrastructure leaders.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, created his own Infrastructure Planning Advisory Committee and appointed Becky Keogh, secretary for the state’s Department of Energy and Environment, as chairman. The committee will make recommendations to Hutchinson on how to best utilize IIJA funds in the state.

In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, appointed former Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez as infrastructure advisor with the same goal. Lujan Grisham is beginning to poll local politicians to get a sense of their infrastructure priorities, and determine how to spend New Mexico’s share of the IIJA.

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