The Federal Highway Administration has given tentative approval to a plan that will bring tolls to Interstate 95 in North Carolina.
The state Department of Transportation said in a statement Friday that the agency gave its approval contingent on the outcome of the standard environmental and permit-seeking process.
The state says the tolls will pay for extensive renovations to the major highway corridor, including widening parts of the Interstate to six and eight lanes, raising and rebuilding bridges and making repairs to pavement. The work is estimated to cost $4.4 billion.
Current funding without the tolls only accounts for about 10 percent of that cost.
State officials hope to be able to start construction in 2016, with toll collection beginning three years later.
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