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Alaska Delegation Announces Nearly $55 Million in Grants

 

March 15, 2005
Tuesday


Washington, D.C. - Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young announced that Federal agencies have awarded a series of grants to the State of Alaska and to Alaska programs.

The grants totaling nearly $55 million released this week are:

The Department of Homeland Security has allocated the following funds from the Transportation Security Administration:

$100,000 for the Ketchikan International Airport and $1.71 million for the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to offset the costs of electronic baggage screening.

The Department of Transportation has awarded the following:

$30,296,337 to the State of Alaska for the repair or reconstruction of federal-aid highways and roads on federal lands damaged as a result of the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck near Fairbanks, on November 3, 2002.

$9,931,409 to the State of Alaska for the repair or reconstruction of federal-aid highways and roads on federal lands damaged as a result of sever rainstorms that struck Kodiak and the Kenai Peninsula on October 23, 2002 and November 23, 2002.

$603,262 to the State of Alaska for the repair or reconstruction of federal-aid highways and roads on federal lands as a result of flooding that occurred outside of Nome between May 17 and 26, 2002.

$500,000 to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation to provide an airport master planning process for the Ralph Wien Memorial Airport in Kotzebue.

$1,878,000 to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation to construct a snow removal equipment building at the Red Devil Airport.

$250,000 to the City of Wasilla to design plans for additional apron space for the Wasilla Airport.

$7,745,000 to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation to provide funds to construct a snow removal equipment storage building at the Perryville Airport.

$1,967,357 to the Alaska Railroad Corporation for the construction of the Fairbanks Rail/Bus Transfer facility.

On the Web:

Office of Senator Ted Stevens
Web Site

Office of Senator Lisa Murkowski
Web Site

Office of Congressman Don Young
Web Site

 

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