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Actually, IIRC it technically was part of the MD State highway system, NOT part of the official Federal system even though it was labeled like the Fed system. Give them funding for hazmat/oversize load river crossing ferries and local road upgrades enough to connect the two sides of the river landings to the functioning ends of the old "intrastate" from the "emergency" fund. That solves the national part of the emergency in which that nationally important kind of traffic "couldn't get there from here" and does so much sooner than building new bridge could. The result would be inconvenient and slower, but no longer an emergency. But such traffic almost never is time dependent and and upgrading that result could easily wait for non-emergent, routine, funding.

The rest of the problem is that local, intra-Maryland, commuter traffic either has to go out its way some distance or takes longer because of increased traffic congestion. Lots of places pleading for federal upgrades of such nuisances. Took about 30 years for the Feds to get around to upgrading my community's biggest such from when I saw the need. And it both crossed state lines and had higher traffic volume than had the Key bridge. Let MD go through routine competition vs. other griping states for Federal funding. If they want faster results, spend their own, or insurance money.