ONTARIO â The Treasure Valley Reload Center is ready to receive state funding and advance to construction, Oregon transportation officials and a state-retained consultant said in separate reports.
The Oregon Transportation Commission at its Thursday, Jan. 21, meeting will consider releasing state funds to TVRC and an intermodal terminal planned near Millersburg.
Malheur County officials and representatives of the regionâs major onion industry have been working on TVRC for more than three years. The facility planned north of Nyssa would transfer commodities from trucks to railcars.
The Oregon Legislature in 2017 approved $26 million conditioned on the local group meeting progress milestones.
Malheur County Economic Development Director Greg Smith told the
Grant Kitamura of Ontario will leave the Oregon Board of Agriculture on Dec. 31.
He will move his residence to Idaho Jan. 1, he told Capital Press, but his business affiliations will remain in Oregon.
âI appreciate the opportunity to serve,â Kitamura said. He remains âin full supportâ of the board and the Oregon Department of Agriculture, which the 10-member board advises.
He was appointed to the board in the fall of 2018. He worked on issues including water quality, irrigation-water supply, livestock depredation and regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations. His term expires Oct. 31, 2022.
Kitamura said he told Gov. Kate Brown in early fall of his plans to move his residence to Idaho.