The grants have been made under the Tiger - Transport Investment Generating Economic Recovery - programme.
A US$15 million project that includes five bridges and the replacement of the Martin Memorial Bridge in Maine are also among recipients of the latest tranche of grants from the US Department of Transportation.
Other awards include US$10 million towards the US$15m Acacostia bicycle and pedestrian project in Washington DC. The overall project includes construction of five bridges as well as paths.
Tiger funds will also be used to cover most of the US$27 million rehabilitation costs of a bridge along the I-15 in Virgin River Gorge, Arizona.
A new pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Mississippi River will be created using the Harahan Bridge as part of a scheme in Memphis, Tennessee.
Another project to receive funding is the Monroe County Bridge replacement in Indiana, which gets just under US$1.5 million.
New pedestrian bridges will be built at Rochester intermodal transportation centre in New York and East Liberty transit centre in Pennsylvania. Other grants include funding of US$11.4 million to cater for the transfer of imports and exports carried by vessels too large to sail under the Bayonne Bridge at the Port of New York & New Jersey. More than 370m of new rail bridge will be built at the Port of Mobile in Alabama using US$12 million of Tiger grant money.
