Lowndes County has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to improve its sewer system, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker announced this week.
“I am pleased to hear that Lowndes County is receiving this award,” Wicker said in a release. “This funding will enable the Golden Triangle Industrial Park to have an even greater impact on the local economy and jobs.”
The money will go toward extending sewage services at Golden Triangle Industrial Park to help new industry set up shop. Local sources are providing $184,500 to the project.
The money is directly tied to the Steel Dynamics $100 million, 40-job expansion announced in May.
Appalachian Regional Grants are appointed by Congress to local government and non-profit entitites. Twenty-four Northeastern Mississippi counties fall into the Appalachian region.
Wicker championed efforts to reauthorize the ARC program in the Senate in July. The Senate passed a measure to allocate $100 million to the ARC program annually for the next five years.
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