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2-4-05
 Transportation
department request
will help ITD 'grow' system
Transportation
development and services
in Idaho is a big business.
More than $760 million will
be managed by all levels
of government in Idaho during
Fiscal Year 2006. ITD will
manage almost 60 percent
of that revenue in one way
or another.
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DEQ approves corrective action for
Mica creek, bay
The Idaho
Department of Environmental Quality
(IDEQ) has approved a corrective action
plan to address alleged environmental
impacts of the reconstruction of U.S.
95 from Bellgrove to Mica Creek in
2001-02.
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ITD
provides budget details to Legislature
ITD executives
recently outlined the department’s
accomplishments of the past year and
its agenda for Fiscal Year 2006 when
they met with the combined House and
Senate transportation committees recently.
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Explosives
launcher could pre-empt avalanches
on Idaho 21
The
transportation department recently
experimented with two methods of
bringing threatening snow accumulations
off the steep mountainsides before
they cascade down on their own.
One method involved dropping small
explosive charges from a helicopter;
the other process launched explosive
charges from a truck-mounted cannon,
called an Avilauncher.
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New
partnership extends public transportation
in Kootenai County
Kootenai County
commissioners and representatives of the
Coeur d’Alene Tribe and Kootenai
Metropolitan Planning Organization (KMPO)
formally entered a partnership that will
change the reach of public transportation
in the county. Commissioners signed an
agreement Tuesday that will provide a
daily fixed-route service in the urbanized
area of rapidly growing Kootenai County.
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Publications added to News
& Info site on ITD's Web
Information
that probes the depths of the transportation
department – from the myriad accomplishments
of past year to highway improvements
projects for the next five years and
beyond – have been added to the
ITD Web site. The 2004 Annual Report,
performance reports, an inside look
at ITD and a new enhancement program
site also are new to the Web page.
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New
guide helps to identify Idaho noxious weeds
Spring may seem
a long ways away, but now is the perfect
time to get ready to do battle against noxious
weeds that will sprout up when spring weather
finally arrives. To do just that, weed officials
urge Idahoans to get a copy of a detail-
packed, 76-page Idaho Noxious Weed Guidebook
offered free to the public by the campaign.
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