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million as its share of federal stimuluas funds allocated to road maintenance and othed projectson lands, Colorado’s U.S. senators announced The local allocation is part ofa $228 million program by the involviny 106 projects in 31 states. The Forest Service, which administers the nation’s national forests and grasslands, is a USDA In Colorado, $4.9 million in fundz authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go to maintai n roads in San Juan National Forest and to removd some of its more than 900 mile s ofunauthorized roads, and anothe $2.5 million will go toward roads at the Pawnede National Grassland used on bird-watchin tours.
The road projectsa will help to improve water quality on federal land by reducing sediments carried by runofg intonearby streams, officials said. The Coloradop allocation was announcedby Sens. Mark Udal l and Michael Bennet, both D-Colo. The overall progra m was announced earlierby U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom
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