Today’s action came when the House passed the Fiscal Year 2007 Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act (H.R. 5385).

Abercrombie, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, had earlier secured approval of the projects in the Fiscal Year 2007 National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the House on May 11.

The Hawaii projects approved today are:

Hickam Air Force Base

C-17 Fuel Cell Nose Dock

$25.0 million

Hickam Air Force Base

Restore C-17 aircraft apron and access road

$3.538 million

Kunia National Security Agency Operations Center

Facility replacement, Increment 4

$47.016 million

Pearl Harbor Naval Magazine

Fire Station

$6.01 million

(added to bill at Congressman Abercrombie’s initiative)

Pearl Harbor

Dredge West Loch Channel for T-AKE (ammunition ship)

$30.994 million

Pearl Harbor

Helicopter flight training facility

$4.324 million

Pearl Harbor

Site preparation, Mobile User Objective System

$13.02 million

Pearl Harbor

Replace Environmental Preventative Medicine Unit 6 Facility

$7.7 million

Schofield Barracks

Unit Operational Facility

$42.0 million

Schofield Barracks

Child Development Center

$12.5 million

“This construction will help the military and it will help Hawaii,” said Abercrombie. “Federal investment has always been a key element in our economy and it will remain important for the future.  The bottom line here is jobs, contracts and small business survival.  I worked hard to get bipartisan support for these projects, and I’m pleased to see those efforts paying off for Hawaii.

“We’re making a commitment to military personnel and the units stationed in Hawaii.  It reflects our determination to maintain an infrastructure that will support isle-based commands for decades to come.”

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