OHIO — As part of federal funding, the Logistics Lane project in Ohio will be receiving $8.7 million.

The funding comes as part of a larger overall $4.9 billion in grants toward 37 projects across the U.S. via the federal administration’s Investing in America agenda, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Logistics Lane project is being funded through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant program, one of two grant programs handling these funds.

“The project will construct access management and safety improvements over SR7 in Marietta to the river port on the Ohio River, deploy innovative mobility solutions to track and manage real-time freight information, and expand multimodal technology components in a key freight and logistics corridor in Washington County,” the release states.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in the release that these projects are so massive that funding would not have been possible under existing infrastructure programs before the current administration.

 “Our INFRA and Mega programs are helping build the cathedrals of American infrastructure: truly transformative projects that will change entire regions and our entire country for the better,” he said in the release.

The release notes that the INFRA program saw a 50% increase in funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and that it is funding 28 projects in this round, more than half of which exist in rural areas.

Just in the INFRA program, there were 190 applications for funding. The release notes that, even with increased funding, not all applications could be funded through either grant program.