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Show Towns Receive CIB Funds Both Escalante and Boulder are among the seventeen communities and special districts throughout Utah that will receive nearly 9 million mil-lion for local improvement projects. proj-ects. The Utah Permanent Community Commu-nity Impact Board (CIB) has approved ap-proved $8,985,000 in loans and grants to help fund such projects as hospital renovations, water system improvements and backhoe purchases. pur-chases. Escalante will receive $65,000 for the replacement of a bridge across Alvey Wash south of Escalante. Esca-lante. The grant equals the 20 percent per-cent match required for funds from the Federal Highway Administration's Administra-tion's Bridge Replacement Program. Pro-gram. Garfield County Fire Special Service District applied for and re-(See re-(See GRANTS on page 5-A) GRANTS From Front Page ceived $ 1 50,000 grant for the purchase pur-chase of a 750-gallon pumper fire truck with foam equipment for the town of Boulder and surrounding unincorporated Garfield County. The Community Impact Board helps stale and local government agencies and entities that are or may be directly or indirectly impacted by mineral resource development on nearby federal lands. The Board provides assistance for planning, the construction and maintenance of public facilities, and providing public pub-lic services. The CIB is a program of the Utah Division of Community Commu-nity Development. |