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Falling fuel tax revenues have contributed to the budgetary bind.

Environmentalists and Native American tribes are bitterly opposed to it.

Multiple projects are now moving ahead without funding and others are expected to be halted.

Work could begin this week and should be finished by November.

That was the highest level for building permits since May 2007.

Construction is estimated to cost about $1 billion.

Affordability is a problem for would-be buyers as increases in home prices have outstripped wage growth.

The Casper City Council will consider the matter at its work session at City Hall at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Housing could soon get additional help from even cheaper credit.

The National Park Service says the closure will occur Aug. 6-27 and a helicopter will be used to deliver materials to the work site.