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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Awards $9.4 Million for Mississippi and Missouri Transportation Improvements

WASHINGTON – Nine highway projects in Mississippi and Missouri will receive $9.4 million from the Federal Highway Administration’s Delta Region Transportation Development Program (DRTDP), U.S Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced today.

“Investments like these will not only improve the safety of the Delta Region’s highways, they will also strengthen its economy and put people back to work,” said Secretary LaHood.

Created in 2005 as a provision of the “Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users,” the program provides up to $10 million each year for highway projects in the eight states comprising the Delta Region –Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.

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