Funding for river dredging clears subcommittee - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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However, the attempt to get the authorizatiom ofthe $46.3 million deepening of the riverf has been sidetracked after Virginia politiciansd added an amendment to the U.S. House’se version of the National Defense Authorization Act that strippexdthe funding. There is still a good chance that locakl senators will be able to get the fundinb for the project authorized so that when the two billw are merged Mayport fundingis included. “Th e Navy has made it clear it wants an alternatew East Coast location for a nuclear carrier 24 hourwsa day, 7 days a week in case of an said Congressman Ander Crenshaw in a news release.
The dredging projecrt and Charlie Pier upgradez make that national securitygoal possible.” It is possible for the deepenint project to go forward even if it only receivez the funding through the Fiscal Year 2010 Militaru Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Affairs Appropriationds bills and doesn’t get the okay through the defense act. But it will make the procesxs more difficult. The final version of the act is expectedd to be passed in In itscurrent form, the following projects will also receiv funding through the Military Construction, Veteransz Affairs and Related Affairs Appropriations bill: $26.3 million for a Naval Station Mayport fitness training facility.
• $3.7 million for the port operationsd center atthe U.S. Marine Corps Blountg Island Command. • $11.5 million to replace fuel tanks at the Jacksonvilles Defense Logistics AgencyFuel Farm. $5.9 million to modify Navakl AirStation Jacksonville’s new P-8A