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State Devotes $27M To Aid Infrastructure

HARRISBURG, PA-The Commonwealth Financing Authority approves a combination of loans and grants from PennWorks for nine projects in eight counties.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on January 31, 2007

HARRISBURG, PA-Nine infrastructure improvement projects in eight counties have received an aggregate in excess of $27 million from the Commonwealth Financing Authority. In all, Gov. Ed Rendell says the projects are designed to retain and create more than 8,600 jobs “by providing the systems and facilities companies are looking for when they choose where to locate and grow.”

Bucks County received the most, an aggregate of $8 million, for two projects. The larger amount of funding is the combination of a nearly $2.9-million loan and $1.9-million grant for the US Steel Keystone Industrial Port Complex in Falls Township, which is being redeveloped into a heavy industrial business park at an overall cost of $6.4 million. The Borough of Bristol, also in Bucks, received an aggregate of nearly $3.9 million to upgrade wastewater treatment systems to accommodate increased demand from such businesses as Lenox and Zober Industries.

Nearly $7.8 million was awarded to the Latrobe Municipal Authority in Westmoreland County for construction of a pre-treatment facility to handle wastewater produced by City Brewing Co. at a former Rolling Rock Beer plant. Earlier this month, the governor provided $4.5 million in grants and loans to City Brewing.

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