|
Conrad slated to receive $752,200 for water project |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
|
Page 1 of 2 By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
The City of Conrad is slated to receive $752,200 as part of an overall federal funding bill for state-specific projects.
An omnibus funding package for the state is $111.6 million of which $42,702,202 will go to rural Montana and specifically over $700,000 for the Conrad wastewater project.
Conrad should receive $492,200 as part of an Interior Bill and $260,000 as part of an Energy/Water Bill.
In a joint statement issued late Monday afternoon, Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester said, “The measure not only funds important services in the federal government, it sets aside $111.6 million for more than 120 individual projects across Montana.”
The U.S. House is expected to vote on the legislation on Tuesday and pass it and then the Senate will vote on the bill, also expected to pass.
It will then go to President Bush, who said he hopes to sign it into law.
Nevertheless, nothing with the federal government so simple.
The President wants another $40 billion added to the measure, this money being new Iraq war money. Stay tuned.
Readers may recall a story in the Great Falls Tribune recently concerning garbage clean up around Browning. The Blackfeet removed close to 200 tons of garbage and took it to the Northern Montana Joint Refuse Disposal District landfill and were charged $19 a ton.
When Conrad had their recent alley clean-up and took the picked- up-items to the landfill, the city was charged $40 a ton.
Mayor John Shevlin was at a recent meeting of the landfill and Monday evening at the council meeting, he said he couldn’t get a specific reason as to why there was such a big difference. “I’m not pointing fingers at them, they’ve had a change over, but there are a number of things going wrong.”
|
