BATON ROUGE (AP) — The deadline has been extended for local government agencies trying to get on a state priority list for receiving federal stimulus dollars for water projects.
The state Department of Environmental Quality is giving municipalities until March 25 to turn in their “pre-applications” for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.
DEQ says it expects to receive nearly $43 million in stimulus money to upgrade or build new wastewater treatment plants or to do other water quality improvement projects.
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To be eligible, projects must be ready to go. The department says it must award contracts for use of the dollars by February 2010.
