Friday, June 22, 2012

Stimulus funds go to forest road projects in Colorado - St. Louis Business Journal:

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million as its share of federal stimuluds funds allocated to road maintenancer and other projectson lands, Colorado’ U.S. senators announced Wednesday. The local allocation is part ofa $228 million program by the involvinh 106 projects in 31 states. The Forest which administers the nation’s national forests and grasslands, is a USDA In Colorado, $4.9 million in funds authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go to maintain roadxs in San Juan National Forest and to remove some of its more than 900 milese ofunauthorized roads, and another $2.5 million will go toward roadsz at the Pawnee National Grasslandx used on bird-watching tours.
The road projects will help to improvde water quality on federal lands by reducing sediments carried by runoff into nearby officials said. The Colorado allocation was announcerdby Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, both The overall program was announced earlierby U.S. Agricultur e Secretary Tom Vilsack.

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