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A report by a House transportation panel recommended establishing a new office at the U.S. Department of Transportation to help states and localities have better access to private capital to fund large-scale infrastructure projects.

The leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Panel on Public-Private Partnerships have scheduled a press conference Sept. 17 to release their final report.

Several members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, are boasting about grants that the Department of Transportation has awarded to projects in their districts ahead of an official announcement by the department.

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on Sept. 9 that the Interstate 4 widening project in Orlando, Fla., will receive a DOT loan for $950 million.

Diesel’s average U.S. pump price matched last week’s $3.814, still a two-year low, the Department of Energy reported Sept. 8.

The Department of Transportation has scheduled public webinars beginning Sept. 8 on proposals to improve the movement of freight across transportation networks and ways to advance aviation technologies in the coming years.

The secretaries of transportation and the treasury are scheduled to address business leaders and financiers Sept. 9 in Washington to encourage them to invest in state and local infrastructure projects.

Kansas officials are touting a $1.2 billion transportation plan, which they said will help improve the flow of freight and upgrade aging transportation systems around the state over the next two years.