Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is releasing fiscal year 2010 funding Bingaman helped secure to help maintain county school bus routes on the Navajo Nation.

New Mexico will receive a total of $561,000 through the Indian School Bus Route program, which Bingaman created in 1998 and helped get reauthorized in a 2005 transportation bill.  Funding will be shared between McKinley and San Juan counties.

"The funding released today will help continue efforts to improve and maintain school bus routes on the Navajo Nations," Bingaman said.