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Vt.'s Lamoille Valley Rail Trail Gets State Permit

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       (AP) - Officials say a 44-mile section of the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail across northern Vermont has received the final permit needed to begin construction.

The project received $5.2 million in federal funding in 2005, but it's been on hold during an environmental review process.

Construction on phase 1 of the project will include work on stretches of trail from St. Johnsbury to Danville, a leg linking Morristown, Hyde Park, Johnson and Cambridge, and a section from Sheldon to Swanton.

 Eventually the project will run 93 miles from Swanton to St. Johnsbury.

The railway served as a vital east-west transportation corridor from 1877 until it closed in 1994.

 In 2003 the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers won state approval to convert the railway into a four-season recreational trail.

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