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Committee approves mileage-based formula for County and Township Infrastructure Fund (Operation Prairie Dog)
Summary
State Treasurer Thomas Bridal and stakeholders told the Transportation Committee that House Bill 1065 would change township distributions in the County and Township Infrastructure Fund ("Operation Prairie Dog") from equal shares to a mileage-based allocation. The committee voted to give the measure a do-pass recommendation.
State Treasurer Thomas Bridal told the Transportation Committee that House Bill 1065 would revise how the township portion of the County and Township Infrastructure Fund is distributed, moving from equal per-township shares to a mileage-based formula.
"This fund was created during the 2019 legislative session," Thomas Bridal, North Dakota State Treasurer, told the committee, describing the fund as part of the oil-and-gas production tax revenue "waterfall" commonly called Operation Prairie Dog. He said the overall county-and-township bucket can total $115,000,000 during a biennium, and the township share is set at 13 percent, or about $14,950,000.
Bridal said the…
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