For Immediate Release

June 30, 2000

HOUSE, SENATE APPROVE FINAL VERSION
OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION FUNDING BILL

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate today passed a final version of the Military Construction Appropriations bill, approved yesterday by the House, which allocates $141.6 million for projects at Washington State defense bases, U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks said Friday.

        The congressional action will assure that the important carrier pier replacement at Bremerton’s Puget Sound Naval Shipyard will remain on schedule, said Rep. Dicks, who together with Washington Senator Patty Murray serves on the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee. A total of $38 million is provided in the bill for the pier work at PSNS in the next fiscal year, Dicks said.

        Also in the bill are funds for construction of facilities required to base the new C-17 cargo aircraft at McChord Air Force Base, in addition to $16.9 million for replacement of base housing at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

        The following is a complete listing of military construction expenditures in Washington State contained in the final version of the appropriations bill for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2000:

NAVY
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Pier Replacement Increment1 - $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

Naval Station Everett
Aquatic Combat Training Facility - $ 5,500,000

Sub-Base Bangor
Modification of explosives handling wharf - $1,400,000
Strategic Security Support Facility - $ 4,600,000

AIR FORCE
McChord Air Force Base
Alteration of Nose Docks for C-17aircraft - $ 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 - $4,341,000
Readiness Center, Yakima - $ 6,713,000

ARMY RESERVE
Army Reserve Center Maintenance Shop, Tacoma - $14,759,000
Fort Lawton site improvements- $ 3,400,000

TOTAL WASHINGTON STATE - $141,692,000

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