{"id":66155,"date":"2015-02-24T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66155"},"modified":"2015-02-24T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:00:10","slug":"gov-to-sign-surge-highway-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66155","title":{"rendered":"Gov signs Surge highway funding bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2268\" alt=\"dalrymple-Gov\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed a bill that will fast-track $1.1 billion for highways and communities affected by North Dakota&#8217;s exploding growth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The governor signed the bill Tuesday morning at the state Capitol.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Darlrymple called the bill &#8220;a great legislative accomplishment&#8221; that had strong bipartisan support.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Senate voted 46-0 on Monday to approve the &#8220;surge funding&#8221; bill that is being rushed through the legislative process so projects can begin by summer. Most of the money is slated for the booming oil-producing region in the western part of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation includes $450 million in funding for state highway projects. It includes $240 million for the 10 biggest oil-producing counties; $112 million for non-oil-producing counties; $100 million for cities in oil-producing counties; and $198 million for other cities outside the oil patch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Legislation is headed to Gov. Jack Dalrymple\u2019s desk that will fast-track $1.1 billion for highways and communities affected by North Dakota\u2019s exploding growth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Senate voted 46-0 on Monday to approve the \u201csurge funding\u201d bill that is being rushed through the legislative process so projects can begin by summer. Most of the money is slated for the booming oil-producing region in the western part of the state.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalrymple is expected to sign the bill on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed a bill that will fast-track $1.1 billion for highways and communities affected by North Dakota&#8217;s exploding growth. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The governor signed the bill Tuesday morning at the state Capitol. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Darlrymple called the bill &#8220;a great legislative accomplishment&#8221; that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66256,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66155\/revisions\/66256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}