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Secondary system, $148.8 million, up from $53.8 million before General Assembly action.
• Interstate system $109.5 million, down from $228.1 million due to a reduction in federal ftinds. (This does not include $147.2 million in interstate discretionary funding received in fiscal year 1967).
For the maintenance of interstate, primary and secondary highways and for the state’s payments to municipalities to maintain local streets, the allotment will increase from $508.8 million to $528.6 million.
Also Thursday, the board gave its preliminary approval for the revision of the state’s six-year imrpovement program for highways and transit, extending the program through fiscal year 1992-93.
Based on current revenue projections, Virginia expects to spend $4.5 billion during the six-year program period in state and federal funds on transportation improvement projects, mass transit, ports and airports, up from an anticipated $2.6 billion before 1986 General Assembly action.
CHIP projects approved
The Commonwealth Transportation Board also recommended approval of the distribution of approximately $91.9 million to accelerate critically needed highway improvement projects at its meeting last Thursday.
The additional revenue is the result of the enactment of Senate Bill 79 by the 1986 General Assembly providing a gasoline tax increase that went into effect July 1, 1986, This special two-year funding package is in addition to the revenue authorized by the legislature in its
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