OACOMA, (KCCR) — The City of Oacoma is one of 13 cities across the state awarded Transportation Alternative Grant funding. The Harrisburg School District, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe and South Veterans Parkway in Sioux Falls have also been awarded approximately nine-point-five million dollars in T-A funding. The T-A program uses federal transportation funds for activities that enhance inter-modal transportation to provide safe alternative options for transportation. Transportation alternatives encompass smaller-scale non-motorized projects like pedestrian and bicycle facilities, recreational trails, safe routes to schools and community projects like historic preservation, vegetation management and environmental mitigation. About eight-million dollars is available annually for T-A projects. Individual projects may be limited to 600-thousand dollars depending on funding with a minimum grant given of 50-thousand dollars. All projects have a local match requirement of just over 18-percent. Oacoma’s project requested 171-thousand 931-dollars for preliminary engineering for a shared-use path along U-S Highway 16 from the current path at Shoreline Drive to another existing shared-use path at Al’s Oasis. Oacoma’s local match is 37-thousand 868-dollars.
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