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State Focus – Kansas: The Sunflower State Is Blooming and Booming

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In western Kansas, winds whip across the prairie, providing the state with a valuable source of renewable energy. Since the beginning of 2008, wind generating capacity in Kansas has more than tripled to 2,967 megawatts. THE KANSAS CITY ANIMAL HEALTH CORRIDOR KEEPS EXPANDING. Geography is one of Kansas’ key assets.

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SNAPSHOTS: 60 Seconds… With Larry V. Parman, Secretary, Oklahoma Department Of Commerce

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LP: The first step is that departments across all Oklahoma government agencies will review their assets and operations, including policies and behaviors, to identify possible savings and areas where costs can be reduced and existing resources recycled and repurposed. 31 in order to trigger a federal tax credit (PTC) worth 2.3

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Kansas offers a strategic location in the center of the United States that is bolstered by quality transportation options, including major interstates I-70 and I-35, which allow the state to connect with the North America Free Trade Agreement corridor. railroad miles. percent of all U.S. Southwest Publishing and Mailing.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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1,677 miles of Class 1 railroads. Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Alabama Innovation Fund: As part of the implementation of Accelerate Alabama, this fund was created to maximize the use of the State’s economic development resources by leveraging annual research and development expenditures by Public Universities within the State to generate resources which can be used to support economic development initiatives.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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1,677 miles of class 1 railroads. There also is Arkansas’s state-of-the-art railroad infrastructure comprising three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway. Arkansas also has 22 smaller railroads operating over its more than 2,700 miles of track. 16,416 miles of state and U.S.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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The COMMERCIAL FISHING AND AGRICULTURE BANK provides loans to fishing, tourism, natural resources and agriculture-based projects. The business must sign a job-creation agreement under the Advantage Arkansas program within 24 months of signing the Tax Back agreement.

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