Chief Patron: Kilgore
Co-Patron(s): Bowling, Phillips
Coalfield's Expwy Clean Water Act Permits

Item 453 #1h

Language
Page 402, line 2, strike "$14,571,143" and insert "$19,071,143".
Page 402, after line 7, insert:
"Out of the amounts for Environmental Monitoring and Compliance for Highway Projects, up to $4,500,000 the first year from the general fund shall be used for costs associated with obtaining the required federal Clean Water Act permit approvals for the Coalfields Expressway."

Explanation
(This amendment funds activities related to obtaining the federal Clean Water Act permits required for implementation of the Coalfields Expressway so that the Commonwealth may capture construction cost savings as the result of an innovative partnership with private entities to produce synergies related to the extraction of coal and the building of the roadbed.)