DEPARTMENT: Transportation
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Submit And Accept Grant Funds For 2024 RAISE For County Projects 50-33, 54-11
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize staff to submit County Project (CP) 50-33 in the City of Lakeville and CP 54-11 in Ravenna Township to the 2024 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant program and to accept the grant funds, if awarded.
SUMMARY
The Federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) established the RAISE program, a competitive grant program to provide funding for surface transportation infrastructure projects that will improve safety, environmental sustainability, quality of life, mobility and community connectivity, economic competitiveness and opportunity, state of good repair, partnership and collaboration, and innovation. Staff is proposing to submit CP 50-33 as a County-led application in the urban capital project category and CP 54-11 as a County-led application in the rural capital category to the RAISE grant program. For fiscal year 2024, the RAISE program has $1,500,000,000 available for funding across the nation, with not more than half of that amount available to rural projects. All of the projects mentioned are included in the 2024-2028 Capital Improvement Program. Applications are due February 28, 2024.
Project descriptions for the County-led projects are as follows:
* CP 50-33 includes the reconstruction of the bridge and interchange at Interstate 35 and County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 50 to replace the existing deficient interchange and accommodate strategic capacity needs on I-35. The current interchange concept would increase the capacity of CSAH 50 between 172nd Street and the I-35 South ramps to meet current and future traffic projections. The proposed reconstructed bridge and interchange would include strategic capacity improvements to I-35. Staff is requesting to submit a funding application requesting $25,000,000 to...
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