News/Events
White House Announces Steps to Expedite High Impact Infrastructure Projects to Create Jobs
September 1, 2011August 31, 2011 – The White House – WASHINGTON – Today, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing departments and agencies to identify high impact, job-creating infrastructure projects that can be expedited through outstanding review and permitting processes. At the President’s direction, the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Interior and Transportation will each select up to three high priority infrastructure projects that will create a significant number of jobs, have already identified necessary funding, and where the significant steps remaining before construction – including permit decisions, reviews, and consultations – are within the control and jurisdiction of the federal government and can be completed within 18 months.
Read MoreSen. Toomey Co-Sponsors Bipartisan Bill To Build Highways In Pennsylvania
August 4, 2011“This is a simple solution that will not cost any additional taxpayer dollars and will help create jobs in Pennsylvania.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) announced today that he has co-sponsored S. 950, which would repeal a ban on states using toll road revenues as matching funds for Appalachian Development Highway System projects.
Congress authorized construction of the Appalachian Development Highway System in 1965, and 2,715.1 miles of the authorized 3,090-mile system were completed or under construction as of September 2010. Allowing states in the Appalachian corridor to use toll road credits as matching funds for the system will speed up the use of already allocated construction dollars for several Pennsylvania infrastructure projects. The ban does not exist outside the Appalachian corridor.
Read MoreSEIS Letter from Cattaraugus County Deptartment of Development, Planning & Tourism
August 4, 2011Cattaraugus County knows the importance of a completed US Route 219 on the economic development of the region!
SEIS Letter-Cattaraugus County
