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Clay County commissioners decline to advance $250,000 federal planning grant for river access study
Summary
The Clay County Board of Commissioners considered a Federal Lands Access Program planning grant to study access improvements at the Missouri National Recreational River but voted down a motion to ask Federal Highways to obligate the funds after lengthy public comment and commissioner debate.
At the Oct. 26 meeting of the Clay County Board of Commissioners, a motion to request that Federal Highways obligate $250,000 in Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) funds for a planning study of access to the Missouri National Recreational River failed.
The grant application would have funded a planning project limited by the county to four possible subprojects: (1) evaluating a section-line extension to a riverside launch site, (2) studying a safer nonmotorized route from Vermillion to Clay County Park, (3) exploring improvements at Myron Grove, and (4) studying changes at Clay County Park intended to separate motorized and nonmotorized launches. County staff said the grant would pay for planning and public engagement rather than construction.
The county’s staff presentation said the program is federal and that those funds flow from Federal Highways to the State of South Dakota; earlier in the…
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