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Idaho Falls projects biggest stimulus winners

By The Associated Press
Friday, October 30, 2009
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Idaho Falls projects biggest stimulus winners

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The region surrounding Idaho Falls, with its energy laboratory and hazardous waste clean-up project, has been the biggest recipient of federal stimulus money.

According to the latest reporting figures, the ZIP code that includes the Idaho National Laboratory received more than $427 million, accounting for about a third of the state's total $1.2 billion share of the funding package meant to help dislodge the nation from deep recession.

Engineering companies CH2M Hill and URS Corp., partners in a venture that's removing waste from the laboratory site, received just over $412 million.

Friday's federal report indicates 2,103 Idaho jobs were created or saved by the spending, so far.

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The report wasn't free of errors, however. For instance, it indicates Idaho's fourth, fifth and eighth congressional districts received nearly $3 million in funding, combined. But the state has just two congressional districts.

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