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requires revenue to fix it, what do we have to do?" Vehle said.
• The state's 22-cent-a-gallon motor fuels tax raised nearly $133 million last year, and the 3 percent excise tax on vehicle sales collected about $73 million. Total state tax revenue for highways is about $25 million more a year than was anticipated six years ago, Bergquist said. The state gets about $275 million a year as its share of federal highway funding.
• "There is not a need today for additional state revenues," Bergquist said after the legislative hearing. "Obviously what happens at the federal level has the potential to skew that substantially."
• Bergquist told state lawmakers he hopes Congress provides highway funding for the rest of the federal fiscal year as part of an overall budget bill expected to be approved in the next few days. Federal taxes are providing about $35 billion a year to the federal highway trust fund, but Congress has been adding other money to spend about $50 billion a year on highways.
• One proposal would cut federal highway spending to $35 billion a year to match revenue receipts, which could cost South Dakota $80 million to $90 million a year, Bergquist said. That would have a devastating impact on South Dakota's ability to maintain roads and bridges, he said.
• South Dakota's motor fuels tax was last raised in 1999, but officials have said the cost of building and maintaining roads and bridges has risen substantially since then.
• The 2011 Legislature passed a bill to increase annual vehicle registration fees, commonly called license plate fees, to give counties, cities and townships more money for their roads and bridges. Gov. Dennis Daugaard vetoed the bill, but the House and Senate overrode the veto to pass the measure.
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• GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy will replace Adrian Peterson at the Pro Bowl later this month.
• The Minnesota Vikings running back can't participate because of an injury.
• Lacy set franchise rookie records this season for rushing yards (1,178), rushing touchdowns (11) and rushing attempts (284). He tied the team's rookie mark for 100-yard rushing games at four.
• Lacy is the first Packers running back since Ahman Green in 2004 to go to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii and the first Green Bay rookie running back since John Brockington in 1971.
• Lacy says he sees the Pro Bowl as an opportunity to thank his teammates and

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