Alaska governor Frank Murkowski has set aside US$94 million for the Knik Arm Crossing and US$91 million for the Gravina Island access project from the state's capital budget for the next fiscal year. The US Congress had recently dropped its funding allocations for the bridges. “Our state rules limit how federal funds can be allocated toward projects in any one year," said Murkowski. "These projects will move more slowly as a result of Congressional action, but I will move them along as fast as I can.”