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result the funds available for construction and improvements are declining, according to the department.
systems, is provided by taxes paid by highway users. Of next year’s total for statewide secondary construction and improvements. about $13,501,000 is expected from the motor fuel tax and other state levies, while about $28,211,000 will come from the federal Highway Trust Fund.
Under state law, the money is apportioned among the counties through procedures which take into account land area, population, total and unsurfaced road mileage, vehicle registration, vehicle miles traveled, and secondary system construction funds each county received in fiscal year 1976-77, when the General Assembly revised the distribution process.
According to statistics supplied by the highway department, Rappahannock's area is 267 square miles and its population is 6,028. The county’s adjusted road mileage is 276.13 and its vehicle registration 4,484 with vehicle miles traveled set at 28.884. As of December 31, 1980, the county had 51.4. miles of nonhardsurfaced road, .928 of its total, serving 50 or more vehicles per day.
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