5 results for “rural infrastructure”
5 results for “rural infrastructure”
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation's 2025 budget, authorized through General Appropriation bill SB 1125, allocates $590 million from the Rebuild Oklahoma Access and Driver Safety (ROADS) Fund at its full statutory authorized amount. The State Transportation Fund received a $4.8 million increase to a base of $216 million, including $16.2 million for industrial area access improvements and lake/waterway access, plus $5 million for public transit. An additional $200 million appropriation established the Rural Economic Transportation Reliability and Optimization (RETRO) Fund to accelerate construction and maintenance of projects in rural areas experiencing economic development and traffic volume increases. Senate Bill 1429 repurposed the McClellan Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System Revolving Fund to the Oklahoma Ports Infrastructure Revolving Fund, with the GA bill providing $16.2 million for port and navigational system improvements.
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On December 6, 2022, the Greenville Water Commissioners of Public Works held a regular meeting in Greenville, South Carolina, with four commissioners present and senior staff in attendance. The commission unanimously approved consent agenda items including October meeting minutes, water resources reports, finance updates, and development/annexation information. Legislative Liaison Bob Knight briefed the commission on state legislative activities, including Senator Fanning's bills to prevent water service requirements as an annexation condition and to limit DHEC's authority to mandate municipal water system connections for properties over 5 acres, while noting the SC Rural Infrastructure Authority's expected APRA fund decisions by end of first quarter 2023 and the ongoing Saluda River Basin planning initiative.
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On August 26, 2022, the Borough of State College and Ferguson Township held a joint work session to discuss a proposed cable television franchise agreement. Attorney Phil Fraga provided an overview of legal requirements for such agreements, and representatives from Shentel presented their company, a 120-year-old telecommunications provider offering fiber-to-the-home broadband, television, and phone services to rural communities. Shentel outlined their network capabilities, including 7,900 miles of fiber infrastructure, and highlighted potential benefits such as significant capital investment, competitive service offerings, economic development, and participation in the Affordable Connectivity Program, with construction expected to begin 12-18 months after a franchise award.
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The Knox County Growth Policy Coordinating Committee updated the Knoxville-Farragut-Knox County Growth Policy Plan, originally developed in 2001, to incorporate findings from a two-year integrated land use and transportation planning process completed in 2021. The revised plan updates rural and planned growth areas based on current conditions, infrastructure, and input from government departments, utilities, emergency services, and the school board, while introducing updated terminology such as "placetypes" for land use categorization and maintaining existing urban growth boundaries for Knoxville (47.5 square miles) and Farragut. The policy recommendations address unincorporated Knox County development while complying with Tennessee's Public Chapter 1101 annexation and growth management law.
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