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Alberta Health Services has decided to pare down its infrastructure demands, handing the province a shorter list that emphasizes a handful of smaller, lower-cost projects.

The health authority’s “Capital Submission” is prepared once a year as part of the government’s process for determining which infrastructure projects to fund.

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The list has typically featured at least 20 projects ranked as urgent priorities, including a number of expensive, high-profile developments.

Last year’s list, for example, called for redevelopments of the Royal Alexandra and Misericordia hospitals, while past lists have included a new tower for the Red Deer Regional Hospital and construction of a handful of rural hospitals. None of those projects have been approved.

The latest AHS submission has just nine projects, none of which is estimated to cost more than $125 million.

The health authority said it was asked to scale back its requests this year to reflect that the NDP government recently committed to a handful of costly health infrastructure projects.