{"id":27008,"date":"2024-06-24T22:31:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-to-receive-funds-to-reconstruct-aneth-road\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:49:12","slug":"ute-mountain-ute-tribe-to-receive-funds-to-reconstruct-aneth-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-ute-tribe-to-receive-funds-to-reconstruct-aneth-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to receive funds to reconstruct Aneth Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a2dea2d1-d302-4bb8-87f1-16b0af8c0fce&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1283\" alt=\"The road to Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Ute tribe. The tribe was awarded nearly $3 million for an infrastructure project for Aneth Road from the RAISE grant program.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The road to Towaoc on the Ute Mountain Ute tribe. The tribe was awarded nearly $3 million for an infrastructure project for Aneth Road from the RAISE grant program.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Colorado Democrat Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper welcomed nearly $63 million to go toward six infrastructure projects throughout the state. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe was awarded $2,574,000 for the reconstruction of Aneth Road, or UMU 201.<\/p>\n<p>About 23 miles of Aneth Road will be reconstructed and paved from U.S. Highway 491 to the Colorado\/Utah stateline, according to a nerws release from Bennet\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The funds come from the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity, otherwise known as RAISE, grant program. RAISE awarded $1.5 billion nationwide as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/build\/guidebook\/\" id=\"link-e6bb4781b8b0e391304dc3c08a978014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bipartisan Infrastructure Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this funding will support Colorado as we work to meet our state\u2019s changing needs \u2013 from improving our roadways to strengthening local economies,\u201d Bennet said in the news release. \u201cI\u2019m grateful that the Department of Transportation heard our calls to support these projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Akron to Towaoc to Greeley, our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is delivering the funding our communities need to update infrastructure that\u2019s key to economic growth,\u201d said Hickenlooper. \u201cImproved roads, better trails, and expanded mobility hubs will help us build a safer, more connected Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>six infrastructure projects in Colorado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-27008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79542,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27008\/revisions\/79542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27008"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=27008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}