The bill would define covered counties using annual agricultural production thresholds, adjusted for inflation. It would direct the transportation secretary to create and update a list of those counties with input from the agriculture secretary. The bill would reserve 10% of annual rural surface transportation grant program funds for eligible projects on farm-to-market roads in covered counties.
Projects on roads in qualifying counties could be eligible for this reserved grant funding. The bill does not specify which projects would receive grants.
The bill reserves part of the program’s available funds for these projects. No publicly available information about additional costs.
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