(KLZA)--The Nebraska Department of  Transportation recently announced 22 proposals have been selected from the 68 submitted in December for the second round of the County Bridge Match Program.

The program was created in 2016 as a result of the Nebraska Transportation Innovation Act.

The program provides 55 percent of the funding for innovative replacement and repair of deficient county bridges, with counties responsible for the other 45 percent.

In October, the Department of Roads announced $4-million would be distributed in the second round of requests for proposals.  In all, 59 counties submitted 165 projects for consideration.

Local projects approved include:

In Richardson County, the replacement of two bridge and removal of another.  A bridge 2 miles north and 1.7 miles west of Rulo will be removed.

A bridge two-tenths of a mile southeast of Dawson will be replaced and a bridge a miles east and 4.5 miles north of Humboldt will both replaced with steel girder structures.

In Pawnee County, two bridge replacement projects are to be replaced.  The first is 2.5 miles north and three-tenths of a mile west of the Nebraska Highway 8 and Nebraska Highway 99 junction.  The second bridge is a miles south and 2.3 miles east of the junction of Nebraska Highways 65 and 67-C Junction. Both bridges are to be replaced with culvert pipe structures.

In Nemaha County, three bridge replacement projects have been approved.  All three bridges are to be replaced with culvert - pipe structures.  

The first project is located  2.4 miles west and 9.1 miles south of Johnson.  The second project is a mile north of Howe and the final project is  4 miles east and 1.5 miles south of Julian.

In Johnson County, two bridge replacement projects have been approved.  A bridge 4 miles west and 7-tenths of a mile north of the junction of Highways 50  and 62 and a bridge 2.2 miles west and 2.5 miles north of Tecumseh will both be replaced with culvert pipe structures.