YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
The U.S. House April 1 passed $219 billion highway funding legislation by a 337-80 vote.
The proposed transportation bill includes $5 million for a tour bus terminal building at the Springfield-Branson Regional Airport.
Southwest Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where the bill originated in the House.
He is urging the leadership in both the House and Senate to quickly resolve differences and pass the measure into law.
The Senate had already passed its federal highway funding bill. The former bill expired in autumn 1997 and a six-month extension was granted. Congress now has to work quickly to get a new bill in place so state highway departments will not suffer unnecessary delays in road construction.
The House version of the bill is a $219 billion bill that includes a formula that provides $200 million in new transportation funding to Missouri, the release states.
The airport tour bus terminal would integrate two forms of travel. More than 1,100 tour buses load and unload passengers at the airport each year. The federal funding would pay 80 percent of the cost to convert a hanger on the south side of the terminal into an enclosed bus facility.
The measure approved April 1 also includes $696,800 for the construction of ramps and purchase of a ferry boat to operate across Bull Shoals Lake at Highway KK between Branson and Forsyth.
In committee, the bill included $1 million to assist in the construction of a new Highway 71 interchange at Carthage's new industrial park at Fairview Road and $33.3 million for four-laning Highway 71/Interstate 49 to the Arkansas state line in McDonald County.
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