The state Division of Highways is utilizing legislation passed in 2013, allowing funding of projects through public-private partnerships.

“It will allow us to manage our monies better and we think through that, allow us to get more projects, more road projects up and started,” Brent Walker, DOH spokesperson said.

Senate Bill 190 laid out the requirements for such an agreement. Among the measures implemented include “eliminating requirement that money from the State Road Fund only be used for public-private partnership projects where the money serves as a required match for federal funds specifically earmarked in a federal authorization or appropriation bill.”

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