Happy 2023 from the Coast Guard Bridge Program!!

This year is already speeding along at a rapid clip. Some of you may soon find yourselves (if you haven’t already) tapping into federal infrastructure revenue streams courtesy of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (the “Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act” signed into law in November of 2021). We fully anticipate that this will allow for the initiation (or re-initiation) of many long-deferred efforts to either rehabilitate or replace outright critical pieces of infrastructure, including, you guessed it, bridges crossing navigable waterways of the United States. We’re of course expecting that this will make things busy on our end throughout the remainder of this year and well into the next, so it’s imperative that if you have bridge projects in your future that may require a Coast Guard permit, reach out early in the process (scoping) to the cognizant District Bridge Office. They can help confirm whether a permit is necessary and, if so, guide you through the process. 

We offer information sessions on the permit process and our application requirements. We’d be happy to schedule a session at a convenient date, time and venue (we’re capable of conducting these sessions either in-person, virtually or a hybrid set-up). Simply reach out to Jim Moore at james.m.moore2@uscg.mil to get on the calendar.  

Meanwhile, to find your District Bridge Office, first determine which Coast Guard District the project is located within. The Coast Guard is organized into nine districts as such:

District Eight is further broken into an office that oversees the Gulf (D8dpb) and one that oversees the Western Rivers (D8dpw).

Contacts for each District Bridge Office can be found here on the USCG Bridge Programs website.

General information on the USCG Bridge Program, as well as links to other useful information, can be found via our home page: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Office-of-Bridge-Programs/.