Building Our Communities
MACON, Ga. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., (GA-02) is pleased to announce that Macon-Bibb County has been awarded $5,630,440 as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Discretionary Grant Program. The SS4A program grants go directly to local communities for implementation, planning, and demonstration projects driven at the local level to improve safety and help prevent deaths and serious injuries on the nation’s roadways.
MACON, Ga. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) is pleased to announce that Mercer University has been awarded $116,349 in federal funds through the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research equipment that will help advance material science research and teaching.
MACON, Ga. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) is pleased to announce that Mercer University has been awarded $387,750 in federal funds by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through its Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs for biochemistry research that will help address the opioid epidemic and the additional complications arising from illicit contamination with fentanyl and xylazine.
DAWSON, Ga. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) is pleased to announce that the Dawson Fire Department and Grady County Emergency Management Agency received $452,380.95 and $30,476.19, respectively through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.
MACON, Ga. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, is delighted to announce a federal award from the U.S. Department of Education totaling $2,643,209 to the Bibb County School District.
ALBANY, Ga. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., (GA-02) is pleased to announce that, last month, Albany State University has received three National Science Foundation (NSF) awards totaling $3,763,838. The funds will bolster biomedical research as well as help engage and support more people to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., (D-GA) joined Congressman Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) in introducing H.R. 9242, a bill to rename the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Poultry Research Center in Athens, Georgia after the late President of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Francis “Abit” Massey.
WASHINGTON – Last week, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., (GA-02) and U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (GA) introduced the Protecting Our Produce Act in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The companion bills establish a pilot program to provide payments to certain U.S. seasonal and perishable fruit and vegetable producers for relief from unfairly priced seasonal imports.
AMERICUS, Ga. –Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., (GA-02) is pleased to announce that the Sumter County Fire Department has been awarded a $938,857.14 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The program is administered through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
ALBANY, Ga. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., (GA-02) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation, through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has awarded the Southwest Georgia Regional Airport a $270,000 Airport Improvement Grant. The grant will fund the first phase of a project to design and rehabilitate 200 feet and 500 feet of two separate runways as well as additional paved operating spaces for airplanes using the airport.