A $9.5 billion FEMA budget to rebuild the power grid María destroyed, $3.66 billion for the water authority, $2.9 billion of homeowner reconstruction, a $1.6 billion San Juan flood project and a $509 million dam repair — and, finished in September 2026, the hospital Vieques waited nine years for — headline Puerto Rico's public pipeline.
*How to read the total: the sum of the published figures in the list below. Bases differ by project — most are total cost estimates, some are federal grants, program totals, or construction contracts as awarded. Each project's expanded view labels its own basis. We add them up with the labels showing rather than pretend they're all the same kind of number.
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16 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to $22,437,747,637 (≈$22.44B) — and the tally is dominated by programme budgets, not single buildings: PREPA's ≈$9.5B FEMA fixed-cost grid award and PRASA's $3.66B water award together are over 60% of the page. Bases differ and are labelled on every record: FEMA fixed-cost commitments, programme totals, published project totals, one certified cost estimate, federal grants and obligations. FEMA-obligation caveat, printed once for the whole page: an obligated amount is money the federal government is legally bound to provide for a purpose — it is not money spent, and it is not a final construction cost. Puerto Rico's recovery is the extreme case: GAO reported in 2026 that of about $11.1B FEMA had obligated for the grid, about $2.7B had been disbursed, and COR3 records in October 2026 showed the school programme 6.6% paid with no site finished. Every FEMA record on this page carries its paid-or-disbursed context where a source published it.
Owner mapping for Puerto Rico, as applied: the Government of Puerto Rico and its public corporations and authorities (PREPA, PRASA, the Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority, the Ports Authority, the University of Puerto Rico, the Department of Housing, the Department of Education, ASSMCA, PRIDCO and the Roosevelt Roads LRA) are state-equivalent public owners, levelled 'state'; municipalities are 'municipal'; a project is 'federal' only when a federal agency is the constructing owner (the Corps of Engineers' flood and restoration projects). LUMA Energy operates Puerto Rico's transmission and distribution grid under contract but does not own it — grid records are PREPA's, with LUMA's operator role named on the record; the same applies to Genera PR for generation. FEMA is a funder throughout: where FEMA money rebuilds a Puerto Rico asset, the owner printed is the Puerto Rico entity doing the work.
One 2026 completion is listed, with its opening printed: the Susana Centeno Hospital in Vieques (inaugurated September 27, 2026, $85.5M). Completed in a prior year, however large — excluded and named: the San Juan Harbor widening and deepening project (USACE / Ports Authority, about $60.5M, completed November 2024); Caño Martín Peña Contract 1 (completed June 2023, inside pr-008's programme total); and PREPA's and PRASA's completed emergency and interim works after María. Deliberately excluded — private builds: Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (operated by Aerostar Airport Holdings under a private concession — its expansion is a private build, however large); private independent power producers' generation, including the EcoEléctrica and AES plants and New Fortress Energy's San Juan LNG terminal; hotel, resort and private housing construction island-wide; and the private operators' own capital (LUMA, Genera) beyond the PREPA-owned programme records.
Named, not listed — unpriced, unfunded or programme-only: the PRHTA highway programme's majors (the Caguas Dynamic Toll Lanes phases, the PR-2 conversion to expressway at Hormigueros at $55M and the Loíza bypass at $23.3M appear in the draft 2027–2030 STIP as competitive-funds proposals with, in the STIP's own words, no FHWA funds currently assigned — named here rather than printed as funded projects); Roosevelt Roads' wider redevelopment beyond the priced MBRIC centre (pr-016), including the base's 2025 military reactivation, which has no published construction price; Tren Urbano and ferry-system capital (a $42M Ceiba ferry terminal and four federally funded ferries at roughly $17–18M each were described in 2024–25 legislative testimony, but no single published project total from an owner source could be verified); Centro Médico's 19 active FEMA and CDBG resilience projects (generators and electrical redundancy described in budget testimony, individually unpriced in the sources verified); and the Río Culebrinas ($26.4M), Río Guanajibo ($60M), Río Nigua ($60M) and Río Grande de Manatí ($14.8M) Corps flood projects, which sit at study or design stage below this page's confidence threshold for listing. Known gaps: Puerto Rico publishes recovery money far better than it publishes project-level construction status, so several records are programme-stage by necessity and are flagged on their faces; municipal majors above $10M with a verifiable current figure are rare in published sources, and Vieques (pr-013) is the page's only municipal record for that reason, not for lack of municipal damage.
News-flag disclosures: five records rest wholly or partly on news reporting of official figures and are typed news-flagged on their faces — PRASA's FAASt total (The Weekly Journal, cross-checked against COR3 reporting), the school programme's paid share and site count (787 Daily, from COR3 records), the Río Grande de Loíza programme figure (Engineering News-Record, from the Corps' programme list), the Vieques inauguration investment (government release via EIN Presswire, confirmed by El Nuevo Día) and the Ports Authority obligation (FEMA release via Coastal News Today). Government releases republished by EIN Presswire and PRFAA are typed official-agency.