The Oregon Department of Transportation received eight grants from the Federal Highway Administration’s Emergency Relief Program , totaling more than $83 million.

The grants will reimburse the state for money spent on work that helped rehabilitate road and other infrastructure damaged by natural disasters.

The events that made the work necessary date back as far as 2017, and include floods, ice storms, wildfire and landslides.

A joint press release from Oregon’s Democratic Congressional delegation identified the projects and causes as follows:

$30,735,975 to repair damage from the 2020 Labor Day fires.

$23,210,956 for repairs related to a severe winter storm that hit Western Oregon, causing landslides that blocked Interstate 84 and damaged Highway 101.

$20,000,000 for work relati

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