PIERRE — The South Dakota State Railroad Board has held off on approving grant requests for federal Special Transportation Circumstance or S-T-C grants. One of five projects under consideration by the Board is an application by the Ringneck and Western Railroad to shore up 21 miles of track in Lyman and Brule County…
General Manager Ryan Yanez says Ringneck and Western is contributing a 20-percent match on the project. The washouts have impacted customers at grain elevators in Presho and Kennebec. Board member Jerry Cope asked Yanez how the railroad would proceed if the S-T-C grant didn’t go through…
State Transportation Secretary Joel Jundt encouraged the Board to wait on approving any of the applications until the December meeting…
State officials are estimating there could be approximately 20 to 24 million dollars in federal grant funding available for projects in South Dakota.
