Thursday, December 2, 2010

Funding for river dredging clears subcommittee - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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However, the attempt to get the authorization ofthe $46. 3 million deepening of the river has been sidetracked after Virginiqa politicians added an amendment tothe U.S. House’s versionb of the National Defense Authorization Act that stripped the There is still a good chance that local senators will be able to get the fundinvg for the project authorized so that when the two billas are merged Mayport fundingis “The Navy has made it clear it wantse an alternate East Coast locatioj for a nuclear carrier 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in case of an said Congressman Ander Crenshaw in a news The dredging project and Charlie Pier upgradesd make that national security goal It is possible for the deepening project to go forward even if it only receives the funding through the Fiscal Year 2010 Militar Construction, Veterans Affairs and Relatef Affairs Appropriations bills and doesn’yt get the okay through the defense act.
But it will make the procesd more difficult. The fina l version of the act is expectede to be passedin October. In its curreng form, the following projects will also receive fundint through theMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs and Relateds Affairs Appropriations bill: • $26.4 million for a Naval Station Mayport fitness training facility. • $3.7 milliobn for the port operations center atthe U.S. Marine Corpws Blount Island Command. • $11.5 millio to replace fuel tanks at the Jacksonville Defense Logistics AgencyFuel Farm. • $5.9 millionn to modify Naval AirStatiojn Jacksonville’s new P-8A hangars.

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