SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The head of the South Dakota Department of Transportation, Darin Bergquist, testified today before a U-S Senate committee working on federal highway funding.
Bergquist appealed to the panel to keep funding at current levels.
The committee working on a new federal surface transporation bill will an ever depleted Highway Trust Fund that gets money from federal fuel taxes of 18.3 cents on gasoline and 24.4 cents on diesel fuel. The Highway Account funds road construction.
Bergquist was invited to testify on the Public Works Committee by Senator Mike Rounds.
Rounds appointed Bergquist to head DOT when he was governor.