2

$10,000,000

$2,000,000 (in-kind)

Lackawanna County

A Lackawanna County natural areas conservation program is suggested to coordinate conservation management goals for these diverse and strategically important natural areas and watershed corridors. Funding, financial incentives, and conservation partnerships need to be developed to secure and protect certain parcels and monitor forestry uses on other parcels in partnership with property owners and timber operators. A reforestation management program needs to be developed to insure successional diversity. The protection of water supply quality is a primary goal of this project. This project proposes development of a partnership among municipalities, property owners, timber operators, land trusts, and state and federal forestry resource agencies.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, US Forest Service, Department of Transportation Rails-to-Trails program, Department of the Interior

Bernard McGurl, Executive Director, Lackawanna River Corridor Association; Telephone (570) 347-6311

2

To be determined

Lackawanna County

The Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority is implementing a variety of projects to promote cultural tourism. They include downtown Carbondale and Olyphant projects, interpretive signage and wayfinding, marketing strategy promoting site linkages, and the Lackawanna Valley Trolley Museum. In addition the Lackawanna County Tourism Promotion Agency is developing a visitor center at Montage Mountain. Numerous new hotels have been constructed and a hotel conference center complex is under development in Scranton. The Valley has a large inventory of under-utilized historic structures such as former schools and textile mills at which several housing projects are underway. One in the Olyphant High School is creating thirty-plus units of handicap accessible senior housing. Other housing needs remain to be addressed relating to single family vernacular homes in particular.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Economic Development Administration.

Bernard McGurl, Executive Director, Lackawanna River Corridor Association; Telephone (570) 347-6311

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$1,000,000

Northeast Pennsylvania

This federally funded local matching grant program is administered for the U.S. Forest Service by the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. The program funds a variety of small community projects with community plantings, education programs for municipal trees commissions, and larger projects such as native plantings for river park-trail-greenway type projects as well as experimental work related to soil restoration and native plant restoration on abandoned mine lands. The program successfully creates local and regional partnerships and elicits creative funding and in-kind matching strategies as well as encouraging volunteerism and public involvement in long term project stewardship. Continued federal funding will insure the program's ability to generate broadly supported local projects enhancing economic development and environmental sustainability.

US Forest Service

Bernard McGurl, Executive Director, Lackawanna River Corridor Association; Telephone (570) 347-6311

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$40,000

Luzerne County

Being developed by Leadership Hazleton in conjunction with the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, this driving tour will focus on the historically significant points of interest in the Greater Hazleton Area ranging from Eckley Miners Village on the East to the Butler Valley on the West. It will provide an educational and entertaining look at local history and will be done in accordance with criteria of the Corridor Commission. Funding is needed to augment seed monies from the Corridor Commission.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, US Department of Interior, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Alan Saches, Executive Director, Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor; Telephone (610) 861-9345; and James R. Boyle, President, Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce; Telephone (570) 445-1508

3

To be determined

Susquehanna and Wayne Counties

Stillwater Dam, built in 1960 and operated by the Corps of Engineers is primarily a flood control dam situated at the headwaters of the Lackawanna River north of Forest City on the boarder of Wayne and Susquehanna Counties. A Reconnaissance Study for a Lackawanna River Greenway conducted by the Corps in 1993 identified opportunities to reallocate stream low-flows for fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational opportunities. The study also identified the dam and impoundment site for potential development of recreational facilities. Interest in a reallocation-reauthorization study was expressed within the Corps. The Trail Conservation Corporation, a non-profit affiliate of The Rail Trail Council is presently conducting a PA DCNR supported River Conservation Plan for the Upper Lackawanna River Watershed. Development of a local partnership of municipal and non-profit interests to partner with the Corps and other agencies on a reauthorization-reallocation project at Stillwater has been prioritized as an early outcome of the Upper Lackawanna River Conservation Plan.

Department of Transportation Rails-to-Trails program, Department of the Interior, US Army Corps of Engineers

Bernard McGurl, Executive Director, Lackawanna River Corridor Association; Telephone (570) 347-6311

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$1,676,000

Danville, Montour County

In October 1992, the Borough submitted an ISTEA Application to PennDOT for transportation enhancements in conjunction with the replacement of the Danville-Riverside Bridge. This project was approved in 1993, and implementation is scheduled to begin in June 1999. The actual cost of the proposed improvements greatly exceeded the budget estimates, including our original application. Accordingly, Danville has re-applied for sufficient funds to complete the activities that were originally requested and approved. Those activities include:

Streetscape improvements: lighting, street trees, curbs and sidewalks, R.O.W. fencing, and landscaping;

Riverfront improvements: develop a continuous riverfront park, including a walking and bike path connecting recreation areas, repair boat ramp, and other improvements at Riverfront Park.

Other improvements: utilize materials from historic bridge to be replaced (stone, girders, etc.), pedestrian bridge for access to the middle school, gateway improvements (at bridge), and enhance Trailways’ bus stop.

Federal Highway Administration, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Federal Community Development Block Grant Program

Tom Graham, Danville Borough Secretary; Telephone (570) 275-3091