For Immediate Release

May 2, 2000

HOUSE PANEL APPROVES NEW NAVY PROJECTS IN KITSAP

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A House of Representatives subcommittee today added funds for two additional Navy projects in Kitsap County, bringing to more than $70 million the total military construction work in Bremerton next year, U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks said Tuesday.

    Rep. Dicks, who serves on the House Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, said the panel agreed to fund a $10 million Industrial Skills Center at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS). The facility is intended to consolidate various training functions around the shipyard into one building, the congressman said.

    The panel also agreed to the addition of $1.93 for a pierside laundry facility at Naval Station Bremerton, needed to accommodate the large number of ships now homeported there, Dicks added.

    These items were added to the list of military construction projects requested in the Clinton Administration’s Fiscal Year 2001 budget request, which includes a major increment – $38 million – for replacement of the carrier pier at PSNS. The budget request, released in February, included ten military construction projects in Washington state totaling $105 million in the next fiscal year, he said. On that list was the proposed expenditure of $2.6 million for an Army National Guard Readiness Center/ Armory in Bremerton. The Subcommittee increased that amount to $4.3 million in preparing the FY 2001 appropriations bill to reflect a revised cost estimate, the congressman said.

    The panel also added funds today for two projects at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane: $5.88 million for a Joint Personnel Recovery Training Facility and $2.05 million for runway centerline lighting at the base.

    These provisions were all part of the Military Construction Appropriations bill for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, 2000. The bill provides $8.6 billion in federal funds for family housing, barracks, medical facilities, child development centers and other quality of life issues for U.S. troops.

The following is a complete listing of military construction expenditures in Washington State approved by the House subcommittee today:

NAVY
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Pier Replacement Increment 1 - $38,000,000
Industrial Skills Center – consolidation - $10,000,000
Chemical Metallurgical Laboratory - $ 9,400,000
Oily Wastewater Collection Facility - $ 6,600,000
Pierside Laundry facility - $ 1,930,000

Whidbey Island Naval Air Station
Replacement of Junior Enlisted Homes - $ 16,873,000

Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific
Modification of explosives handling wharf - $ 1,400,000

AIR FORCE
McChord Air Force Base
Alteration of Nose Docks for C-17 aircraft - $ 3,750,000
C-17 Squadron Operations Facility - $ 6,500,000

Fairchild Air Force Base
Joint Personnel Recovery Training Facility - $ 5,880,000
Runway centerline lighting - $ 2,046,000

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
Readiness Center / Armory, Bremerton - $ 4,300,000
Readiness Center, Yakima - $ 5,104,000

ARMY RESERVE
Army Reserve Center Maintenance Shop, Tacoma - $14,759,000

TOTAL WASHINGTON STATE - $126,542,000

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