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Virginia Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Defense Production Zones: Virginia authorizes its communities to establish local defense production zones to benefit businesses engaged in the design, development or production of materials, components or equipment required to meet the needs of national defense. Each locality designs and administers its own program.

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FEATURE STORY: Talking The Talk And Backing It Up With Results

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This legislative session, we established the Texas Fast Start Program, a collaboration between the Texas Workforce Commission and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, to help students, especially those who are veterans, earn postsecondary certifications and degrees, and quickly enter the workforce.”. Texas is undertaking a $6.8-billion

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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The region boasts one of California’s largest enterprise zones, offering incentives for companies to locate and expand within the greater Sacramento area. But perhaps most enticing is Sacramento’s commitment to becoming a green city; currently boasting the second largest number of buildings in the U.S.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority Grants: Federal-state partnerships that work with the people of 37 Appalachian counties in Alabama and the Mississippi Delta region’s twenty Alabama counties to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. Applicants must meet the same qualification criteria as Advantage Arkansas and must be approved by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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states with service to all six Class I railroads, and offers more than 7,300 miles of oil pipeline and 11,200 miles of gas pipeline. The wind boom in Texas was assisted by the expansion of the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS), use of designated Competitive Renewable Energy Zones and expedited transmission grid construction.

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A Primer on MasterFormat & Improving Construction Project Collaboration

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Various cost information is typically formatted as Products & Activities, General or Routine Maintenance, New Construction, Renovation and/or Repair, Sustainability/Green, Job Order Contracting (JOC), or any combination thereof. 01 91 00 Commissioning. 01 91 13 General Commissioning Requirements. Foundation Commissioning.