Funding for Thune-Requested South Dakota Priorities Moves Forward

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Funding for Thune-Requested South Dakota Priorities Moves Forward

Senator John Thune today announced that several of his South Dakota funding priorities were included in the Fiscal Year 2010 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which was approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier today.

"South Dakota communities rely on water systems to deliver a clean and reliable drinking water," said Thune. "There is certainly room for improvement with some of the anemic funding levels in the Appropriations Committee bill, where it appears that South Dakota's rural interests are taking a back seat. If unchanged, these insufficient funding levels will lead to further delays in completing these necessary, authorized projects."

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