DEPARTMENT: Transportation
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Submit And Accept Grant Funds For 2025 Rebuilding American Infrastructure With Sustainability And Equity Federal Grant Program For County Projects 50-33 And 54-11
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize staff to resubmit applications for the interchange at Interstate 35 and County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 50/CSAH 5, County Project (CP) 50-33 in the City of Lakeville and the reconstruction of CSAH 54, CP 54-11 in Ravenna Township to the 2025 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) federal grant program.
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 resubmit 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 2025, 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 2025-2029 Capital Improvement Program. Applications are due January 30, 2025.
Project descriptions and results from the 2024 RAISE applications for the County-led projects are as follows:
* CP 50-33 includes the reconstruction of the bridges and interchange at Interstate 35 and County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 50/CSAH 5 to replace the existing deficient interchange and coordinate with strategic capacity needs on I-35. The current interchange concept would increase the capacity of CSAH 50 between 172nd Street and the I-35 Sout...
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