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Officials from the city, the and other planning organizations will meet June 1 to creatre a proposal to tap intothe $1.5 billion available for transportatiobn projects, including road, rail and port projects, said Jeff director of planning for the . ’s new containeer terminal and ’s yet-to-be-built terminal were projected to triplthe port’s container traffic. That means adjacent roads could see upto 10,000p trucks daily by 2020. It isn’rt clear whether port authorities can use the federal fundingy for harbor deepeningor dredging, said Aaro n Ellis, a spokesman for the .
The languagee within the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recoveryh discretionary grants is but it’s clear that the fundingb could be used to build an intermodal facility, whic h would speed up the transfer of carg from ships to trucks and railroads. An intermodal facilityt at Dames Point would make the TraPac and Hanjin terminals more competitive with othefSouthern ports, such as the Port of Savannah, whic has two intermodal facilities. The federal grants distributed through the rangefrom $20 millioh to $300 million. Grang applications must be submittedby Sept. 15.
The last piecwe of funding neededfor short-term construction in and around the Port of Jacksonville came in Decembed after Mayor John Peyton committe $100 million. About half came from city coffere and the rest from the andthe . Througgh the stimulus package, the receiveed about $14.8 million to deepen a six-mile stretcbh of the St. Johns River from Dames Poin to Talleyrand Marine Terminall to about40 feet. The corpws also received about $1.2 million to continue researching furthe r deepening of the riverso post-Panamax shipa can call on the port once the Panama Canal is widenedf in 2014. The authority hopes to have the channeo deepened to50 feet.