Credit: California Air Resources Board
May 25, 2025 - The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) reports on May 21, California Congressmembers David Valadao (R-Hanford), Vince Fong (R-Bakersfield), and Jim Costa (D-Fresno), along with Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), reintroduced the Farm to Market Road Improvement Act. The bipartisan legislation aims to direct additional federal funding toward repairing and maintaining rural roads and bridges that are heavily used by agricultural freight trucks.
Specifically, the Act would create a 10 percent set-aside in the Rural Surface Grant Transportation Program for farm-to-market roads. Farm-to-market roads would mean roads within a “covered county”, which is a county that has an annual gross agricultural production value of at least $1 billion and agricultural production of at least $500,000 per square mile. Qualifying counites would include the RCRC member counites of Kings and Tulare. This legislation would also require the Department of Transportation and the US Department of Agriculture to create, and annually update, a list of covered counties.
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The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) is a thirty-seven member county strong service organization that champions policies on behalf of California’s rural counties. RCRC is dedicated to representing the collective unique interests of its membership, providing legislative and regulatory representation at the State and Federal levels, and providing responsible services for its members to enhance and protect the quality of life in rural California counties. To learn more about RCRC, visit rcrcnet.org and follow @RuralCounties on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Source: RCRC
