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Funds are available through the N.C. Board of Transportation to construct roads to provide access to new or expanded industrial or manufacturing facilities, including mills, processing facilities, and laboratories and other industrial research operations. The board also may consider requests for access road improvements to recreational facilities if they are expected to produce additional jobs and attract people to the facilities from other sections <of North Carolina and from out of state. Other eligible projects include: • Construction of public school dnves • Construction of drneway';!af`public medical facilities and public ai orts Pavement :ofntrance aprons at volunteer fire departments and ;rescue squads that are located inside an incorporated municipality le,;N.C. Board of Transportation individually reviews the economic i.!n rt of the location of distnbution,facilities for manufactured goods !, pproval.prnmany �s based on a comparison of the initial number of jobs gained with the road improvement cost. The initial investment in the project, the precedent of past approvals by the board for similar projects, and the economic development needs of the county involved factor into these approvals as well. Access road improvements eligible to be approved by the board must be along an alignment determined by the N.C. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the right-of-way must be dedicated at no cost. Such access road improvements terminate at the property line of the project and become a part of the state maintained system. The N.C. Board of Transportation may consider adding an access road constructed by others to the state maintenance system if it is justifiable based on the existing access and public service road policy. The construction standards for such a road are dependent on the intended use of the roadway and determined by the division engineer. North C irolina Deparirnent of Commerce Incentives 1 16