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However, the attempt to get the authorization ofthe $46.3 milliom deepening of the riveer has been sidetracked after Virginia politicians added an amendmentr to the U.S. House’s version of the National Defenswe Authorization Act that stripped the There is still a good chancd that local senators will be able to get the fundiny for the project authorize so that when the two billas are merged Mayport fundingis “The Navy has made it cleard it wants an alternate East Coast locatio for a nuclear carrier 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in case of an said Congressman Ander Crenshaw in a news The dredging project and Charlide Pier upgrades make that national security goal possible.
” It is possible for the deepeninf project to go forward even if it only receivew the funding through the Fisca Year 2010 Military Construction, Veterans Affair and Related Affairs Appropriations bills and doesn’t get the okay through the defense act. But it will make the proceses more difficult. The final version of the act is expectedf to be passedin October. In its currentt form, the following projects will also receive funding through the Military Veterans Affairs and Relatexd AffairsAppropriations bill: $26.3 million for a Naval Stationb Mayport fitness training • $3.7 million for the port operations centefr at the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island • $11.
5 million to replace fuel tank s at the Jacksonville Defenswe Logistics AgencyFuel Farm. • $5.9 million to modify Navalp AirStation Jacksonville’s new P-8A hangars.