Editing Interstate 11 (section)

===Funding===
The funding bill for the [[U.S. Department of Transportation]], which replaced stopgaps that expired on June 30, 2012, officially designated I-11. This bill sped up funding for studying, engineering, and possibly building the highway. The [[Arizona State Legislature]] passed a law in 2009 that allowed private investors to team up with ADOT. In July 2012, Nevada's Transportation Board awarded $2.5&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Formatprice|{{Inflation|US-GDP|2500000|2012}}}} in {{Inflation/year|index=US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|index=US-GDP}}) in contracts to a team of consultants to study I-11's feasibility and its environmental and economic consequences.<ref name="bill_advances">{{cite news |last = Holstege |first = Sean |date = June 28, 2012 |title = Bill for Phoenix to Vegas freeway advances |url = http://archive.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/20120628phoenix-vegas-freeway-bill-advances.html |access-date = June 29, 2012 |newspaper = [[The Arizona Republic]] |language = en |issn = 2766-452X |archive-date = February 2, 2015 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20150202104132/http://archive.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/20120628phoenix-vegas-freeway-bill-advances.html |url-status = live }}</ref>