President Joe Biden will visit the Portland area on Thursday to promote the $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that he and Congress enacted last month, the White House told The Oregonian Friday.

White House officials are not yet releasing details of his planned event in Portland. It will be his first trip to Oregon as president.

The huge bipartisan spending bill contains $200 million of federal funding for infrastructure projects in Oregon.

A sizable chunk of the money flowing to the state will be used to bolster environmental conservation efforts on Oregon’s coast, which is intended to aid the “blue economy.”

In the Portland area, the largest single project in the bill is $6.2 million to fund U.S. Army Corps of Engineers work at Willamette Falls adjacent to Oregon City.

And The Seattle Times reported Thursday that Washington’s U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell said she expects Washington and Oregon will qualify for significant federal funding for a new Interstate 5 bridge joining the two states. Qualifying language for megaprojects contained in the infrastructure package came through the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation committee, which she chairs. And she told The Times the phrasing was drafted with the I-5 project in mind.

“It just so happens that this project meets practically all the criteria that is laid out in the program,” she said.

Signs indicate Biden’s visit to Portland won’t be broadly open to the public. White House officials said only a very limited number of news reporters and photographers will be allowed.

The White House says the president plans to visit Seattle the day after he comes to Portland.