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House leaders outline $541.3 million SIF transportation plan, propose flex fund, airport allocations and gas tax change
Summary
House leaders told a House Appropriations committee they planned to roll $541.3 million of SIF money into consolidated transportation buckets, put $370 million into a flexible transportation fund and reserve $171.3 million for the highway fund, while leadership's forthcoming amendment would also add $95 million for airport projects contingent on federal grants.
House Appropriations - Government Operations Division members spent the committee's session on a broad transportation funding outline that leaders said would move $541.3 million of State Infrastructure Fund (SIF) money into consolidated buckets for highways, flexible transportation grants and specific projects, and would preserve a vehicle for major airport grants.
Speaker Weiss told the committee the leadership amendment being drafted would add airports into the Department of Transportation (DOT) budget with a proposed $95 million for airport projects, broken down as $40 million for Fargo, $30 million for Dickinson and $25 million for Grand Forks, and that those airport allocations would be contingent on the recipients having obtained their federal grants. "The amendment that will be given to you will have 95,000,000 for Airports, 40000000 for Fargo, 30000000 for Dickinson, and 25,000,000 for Grand Forks," Speaker Weiss said. He noted Fargo had already received its federal grant.
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