Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Monday that the Bureau of Reclamation has awarded $40 million to the Fort Peck/Dry Prairie Rural Water System in northeastern Montana under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The investment will assist in providing drinking water to more than 27,430 residents in eastern Montana. Funding will be used to complete construction of a water treatment plant and accelerate rights-of-way acquisition, engineering design and construction of pipeline segments.