The community also includes experienced Home Depot store associates from across the country, who can assist customers with their home repair projects.

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The Army Corps of Engineers report also listed beach repair projects in Coney Island, the Rockaways and Long Beach as being potentially eligible for complete federal funding.

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In exchange, Mr Nagin helped Fradella secure millions of dollars in contracts from the city in the wake of Katrina, including construction at the airport and sidewalk repair projects, prosecutors said.

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We undertook many verifiable projects including the repair of 12, 500km of roads, and the provision of 16 ferries, 126 buses, 4, 798 motorcycles and 57, 772 bicycles.

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This would put a stop to highway construction, bridge repair, mass transit systems and other important projects that keep our country moving quickly and safely.

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This provides funding for highway construction, bridge repair, mass transit systems, and other essential projects that keep our people and our commerce moving quickly and safely.

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Among those projects are the supply of manufacturing components, energy-related construction and development work and ship repair.

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Previous projects have included everything from workshops on designing and building less-polluting cookstoves to efforts to build and repair schools and roads to a two-year survey by scientists to study and map the Mekong.

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