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Committee hears TEDF overview; county and timber groups urge more money for forest roads
Summary
MDOT officials briefed the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Transportation Economic Development Fund (TEDF), explaining statutory categories A–F, distribution formulas and recent grant examples; county road and timber representatives urged the legislature to increase funding—especially Category E for forest roads, which has remained largely flat.
Michigan Department of Transportation staff and program managers told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Local Transportation that the Transportation Economic Development Fund (TEDF), created by Public Act 231 of 1987, remains the state’s mechanism to finance targeted road work that supports economic development.
Mike Capp, administrator in MDOT’s Office of Economic Development, told the committee the fund is organized into six categories: A (target industries), B (community service infrastructure), C (urban congestion relief), D (rural all‑season network), E (forest roads) and F (urban areas in rural counties). Capp said the program balances an economic‑development model (local tax benefits, private‑public investment ratio, job creation) with MDOT technical review to score applications for Category A grants.
Capp emphasized that TEDF grants go only to public road agencies and must be spent…
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