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Committee Reviews DOT Budget: Flexible Transportation Fund, Highway 85 Gap, EIS Work and Minor Capital Requests Discussed
Summary
The Senate Government Operations Division reviewed the Department of Transportation’s amendment packet, discussing a proposed $100 million state allocation for a federally ineligible six‑mile segment of Highway 85, environmental work on long‑term corridors and several smaller capital requests for DOT facilities.
The Government Operations Division reviewed a comprehensive Department of Transportation amendment packet and discussed funding mechanics, program priorities and several discrete requests that members asked staff to refine before full committee consideration.
Ron Henke, DOT director, explained that one stretch of Highway 85 (roughly six miles through the Badlands) failed to clear federal benefit‑cost criteria and therefore did not qualify for a large federal grant; the department and the committee discussed adding $100,000,000 from state sources in the amendment packet to finance that segment. Henke confirmed the federally…
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