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Summary of Infrastructure Bill in Select States
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act's impact on select states
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Our clients include:
- Ports and municipal transit authorities
- Shipyards and marine terminals
- Commercial fishing and processing facilities
- Truck, automobile, and bus manufacturers and dealerships
- Autonomous vehicle companies
- Freight and cargo shipping and logistics companies
- Rail carriers
- Aviation entities
Our work within the transportation industry includes:
- Construction contracting and litigation, including appellate
- Environmental regulatory advice and counseling
- Environmental insurance coverage and litigation
- Contaminated sites work
- Hazardous materials and dangerous goods transport
- Emergency and crisis response
- Safety regulatory advice and counseling
- Real estate advice and transaction support, including on acquisitions, dispositions, easements, and track and corridor management
- Railbanking (“Rails to Trails”) under the National Trails System Act
- Land use advice concerning permitting issues and eminent domain
- Labor and employment
- Employee benefits
- Corporate (including, e.g., M&A, finance, joint ventures, and public-private partnerships)
- Tax issues
- Litigation
Representative clients include:
- Carrix, Inc.
- King County
- Port of Tacoma
- Port of Everett
- Port of Seattle
- Savage Companies
- SSA Terminals
- TriMet
- Washington State Department of Transportation
Ports and Transit Authorities
Public agencies are racing to upgrade infrastructure—including seaports, airport facilities, roadways, and transit systems—to keep pace with growth, alleviate congestion, and respond to systemic impacts such as climate change. The development of transportation infrastructure projects presents dynamic regulatory, commercial, compliance, and litigation challenges.
Our deep experience with the federal, state, and local regulatory frameworks in which ports and transit authorities do business (including on project permitting, compliance, and land use issues) allows us to advocate effectively for our public clients working on projects where economic development and various stakeholder interests (e.g., environmental) compete and converge.