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To: hedgetrimmer
The excerpt below is from the upcoming California Initiative (Transportation bond) on the November ballot (SB1266/Prop 1B). I have been looking for the source of this term "Trade Corridors of National Significance". Any thoughts?
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Two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000) shall be transferred to the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund, which is hereby created. The money in this fund shall be available, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Bill by the Legislature and subject to such conditions and criteria as the Legislature may provide by statute, for allocation by the California Transportation Commission for infrastructure improvements along federally designated "Trade Corridors of National Significance" in this state or along other corridors within this state that have a high volume of freight movement, as determined by the commission. ... Eligible projects for these funds include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

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(v) Border access improvements that enhance goods movement between California and Mexico and that maximize the state's ability to access coordinated border infrastructure funds made available to the state by federal law.


393 posted on 05/20/2006 10:45:36 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

>>>>federally designated "Trade Corridors of National Significance"


Reference this maybe?

http://www.wcog.org/library/imtc/7-21-05sc.pdf
International Mobility & Trade Corridor Project
Steering Committee Meeting Summary
Thursday, July 21, 2005


395 posted on 05/20/2006 10:57:50 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: calcowgirl

No suprise, eh?


423 posted on 05/21/2006 8:35:00 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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