Raffield announced that the Port Authority had received $1 million from the Florida Department of Transportation to conduct engineering and design work toward a final design for spoil-site infrastructure required once dredging of the federally-authorized shipping channel is underway. For months, engineers with Hatch Mott MacDonald, the contractor which did the work securing state and federal permits for dredging as well as spoil disposal, have been telling Port Authority members, and Raffield said Tuesday officials in Tallahassee, that a needed next step was designing the spoil infrastructure.