Sunday, November 11, 2012

Stimulus funds go to forest road projects in Colorado - Kansas City Business Journal:

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million as its share of federakl stimulus funds allocated to road maintenance and other projectson lands, Colorado’s U.S. senators announced Wednesday. The locakl allocation is part ofa $228 milliobn program by the involving 106 projects in 31 states. The Forest which administers the nation’s national forests and is a USDA division. In Colorado, $4.9 milliohn in funds authorized by the American Recoveryy and Reinvestment Act will go to maintain roads in San Juan National Forest and to removse some of its more than 900 milesa ofunauthorized roads, and another $2.5 million will go toward roads at the Pawnee National Grasslanxd used on bird-watching tours.
The road projectsw will help to improve water qualitgy on federal lands by reducing sedimentsw carried by runoff intonearby streams, officials said. The Coloradp allocation was announcedby Sens. Mark Udallo and Michael Bennet, both D-Colo. The overal l program was announced earlierby U.S. Agriculture Secretargy Tom Vilsack.

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