The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee agrees to include a permeable pavements provision in the Committee Report, which will accompany the Senate version of the "THUD" Appropriations Bill.

The ICPI announces the U.S. Senate has agreed to include a permeable pavements provision in the Committee Report, which will accompany the Senate version of the "THUD" Appropriations Bill. "THUD" is the key appropriation to fund all activities by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.

David Pitre, ICPI's Board Chairman-Elect, hailed the action taken by the Senate Committee as an "extension and expansion of the language that ICPI secured on the MAP-21 Transportation Authorization law. ICPI is helping government institutions at all levels overcome outmoded barriers to adoption and increase the use of pavers to obtain their public policy benefits in transportation."

Charles McGrath, ICPI's Executive Director added, "ICPI's activities on this effort reflect the association's commitment to grow paver penetration into the huge U.S. transportation network as a mainstream technology to expand and upgrade the transportation infrastructure."