The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contains a number of provisions that may prove very important to cleanup lawyers. Known colloquially as the BIF—the bipartisan infrastructure framework—or sometimes as the "bipartisan infrastructure bill," even though it is no longer a bill, IIJA authorizes over a trillion dollars to an enormous variety of programs. Assuming all that money is actually appropriated, some will pass through established programs. Other will require new processes or programs to spend it as Congress intended. A lot of that money will affect programs, issues and matters with which environmental practitioners deal regularly. I focus here on some remedial programs as examples. One can choose other slices. See, e.g., Rappold, et al., "The Top 5 New Environmental Issues for Commercial Property Owners or Managers," 12 Nat'l L. Rev. No. 93, fifth set of issues (Jan. 14, 2022).

IIJA covers 1,039 pages in Statutes at Large. Pub. L. No. 58, 117^th Cong., 1^st Sess. (Nov. 15, 2021), 135 Stat. 429-1467, posted at //www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ58/PLAW-117publ58.pdf. Much of the spending under the IIJA will flow through state and local governments. Accordingly, on Jan. 31, the White House issued Building a Better America (the guidebook), a 429-page guidebook for state, local, tribal and territorial governments. It also launched a website, build.gov, regarding implementation of the infrastructure program.