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<br /> Estimated
<br /> County Vehicle Distribution
<br /> Registrations ($149.7 million total}
<br /> Tillamook 35,014 1,248,000
<br /> Umatilla 89,521 3,191,000
<br /> Union 33,874 1,208,000
<br /> Wallowa 11,922 425,000
<br /> Wasco 31,908 1,137,000
<br /> Washington 469,457 16,736,000
<br /> Wheeler 2,470 88,000
<br /> Yamhill 106,135 3,784,000
<br /> TOTAL 4,199,273 149,700,000
<br /> County minimum road funding ensure that county road programs have
<br /> In the past, county road programs a minimum base level of funding: a
<br /> received 75 percent of the Secure Rural total of $1 million per year, or $4,500
<br /> Schools (SRS) payments for federal per mile of county arterial and collector
<br /> Forest Service lands. For fiscal year roads, whichever amount is greater.
<br /> 2007, SRS support for county road
<br /> programs was about $104 million. The The State Highway Program would
<br /> federal government is phasing out SRS provide 76 percent of the money
<br /> over four years under a bill that recently required for base level funding for
<br /> became law. county road programs; counties would
<br /> provide the balance, 24 percent. The
<br /> State Highway Funds, Federal Highway cost of the program and the number of
<br /> Funds, and SRS funding provide about counties that would benefit will increase
<br /> 70 percent of all county road program as the SRS programs is phased out by
<br /> funding in Oregon; the percentage the federal government.
<br /> is much higher in rural counties.
<br /> Low-population counties responsible Base level funding for county road
<br /> for expansive road systems do not programs was estimated to benefit
<br /> receive enough money from the state's twelve counties and cost about $8.5
<br /> distribution for highway fund money million per year when it appeared that
<br /> alone to adequately operate their road the federal government would terminate
<br /> programs, rather than phase out the SRS program.
<br /> The estimate was based on 2006 - 07
<br /> Minimum funding for county road data. Of the $8.5 million, $6.4 million
<br /> programs consists of State Highway would be provided by the State Highway
<br /> Fund money, discretionary federal- Program; $2.1 million by counties. The
<br /> aid highway project money, and twelve counties likely to benefit from
<br /> federal forest severance payments, the supplemental distribution include
<br />
<br /> The Federal Forest Payments Task Baker, Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Harney,
<br /> Force recommends a supplemental Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman,
<br /> distribution of state highway funds to Wallowa, Wasco, and Wheeler counties.
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