The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) will invest $13.2 million in a pilot street paving program across 22 communities in Ohio and Kentucky over the next year.

The OKI Board of Directors unanimously approved the new program during its Oct. 9 meeting. It also approved $82 million for 52 projects as part of the agency’s annual infrastructure awards program.

List of funded communities and their paving projects can be found at www.oki.org .

The initiative will allocate funding to 15 communities in Ohio, using Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) funds, and 7 in Kentucky, using Northern Kentucky (SNK) funds.

The funding will enable the repaving of about 62 lane miles of roadways in the OKI region.

“This is a pilot program for the time being,” said OKI Dep

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