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The DOT signed off on 36 projects valued ataboutr $50 million, including four resurfacing jobs in metrlo Atlanta worth more than $2.6 million. The local work will be done on Georgia highways 92 and 139 inFulton County, U.S. 19 in Clayton County and Georgiaa Highway 20 inRockdale County. Three of the four contract s wentto , while the fourth was awardexd to In selecting projects to fund with federal stimulus the DOT looked for highway improvementas that could be started as quickly as possible. Such projects tend to be thosethat don’t involve new which requires extensive environmental impact studies.
“This is all abouyt creating jobs … especially (in) those areas considered economicallyu depressed,” said State Transportation Board member Dana Lemonnof McDonough, who represents Georgia’s 13th Congressional which received one of the project awards on The DOT is responsible for 70 percenr of the $932 million in highway system stimulus funds allocated to Georgia, with the rest goiny to the state’s 15 metropolitab planning organizations, including the .