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Show j,four calendar years, 1943 through 1946." . $2,256,000 is expected to De available from highway fund balances, bal-ances, $12,050,000 from gasoline taxes, and $9,302,000 from Federal Fed-eral Aid. I Adequate state funds will be available to match all Federal Aid, and in addition, approximately $1,865,000 will be available for state construction in which the Federal government does not participate. par-ticipate. : Operations of the State Road ; Commission were made subject to appropriations by the 1947 Legislature, Legis-lature, but the approved appropriations appro-priations do not withhold any highway funds which would otherwise other-wise be available. Appropriations from state high-iway high-iway funds, with but few exceptions, excep-tions, were made in accordance with an estimate of minimum needs for 1948 and 1949 prepared by the State Road Commission. The major exception is for state highway maintenance, for which $4,725,000 was appropriated, compared com-pared with the indicated minimum need of $5,000,000. The appropriated appro-priated amount exceeds expenditures expendi-tures for the two-year period, 1945-1946, by approximately one-half one-half million dollars. MORE MONEY IS . ' AVAILABLE FOR ROAD WORK "Approximmately $23.6 million will be available during the 1948-1949 1948-1949 biennium for the construction, maintenance, administration, and policing of Utah's 5,300 miles of state highways, according to present estimates," says a research re-search report released today by Utah Foundation, the non-profit, tax-study organization. "This amount is almost double the amount expended on state highways during any previous biennium, and is only slightly less than the combined state highway high-way expenditures made during the |