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VANCOUVER – Sixty-one local governments will share
nearly $900,000 in the second round of the Province’s 2007 Infrastructure
Planning Grant Program, helping them to plan for greener, healthier
infrastructure development, Community Services Minister Ida Chong announced
today.
“This second round of planning funds will help even more local
governments in the province to plan and enhance public infrastructure, bringing
health and environmental benefits to the residents of their communities,” said
Chong.
The Infrastructure Planning Grant Program offers
grants up to $10,000 to help local governments plan, design and manage
infrastructure. The grants support projects that improve infrastructure
sustainability such as long-term comprehensive plans and studies needed to
assess the economic and environmental feasibility proposed for water, sewer,
drainage and transportation infrastructure.
“Whether it is developing sustainable infrastructure
standards in Kamloops, or Canal Flats’ study of developing an integrated
drinking water and community heating system, the studies we are helping fund
today will ultimately assist communities in delivering new, efficient and
sustainable infrastructure to their residents in the future,” added Chong,
noting that almost half of the projects recently submitted to the Municipal
Rural Infrastructure Fund were initiated with Infrastructure Planning Grants.
Earlier this summer, more than $920,000 in infrastructure
planning grants went to 62 local governments around B.C.
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