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$22 million earmarked for military projects in Nevada

Benjamin Grove

Tuesday, May 9, 2000 | 11:29 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Nevada will get $22 million for military projects in the next federal budget, if the provisions survives the budget process in Congress.

"These funds will be used for important military construction projects around Nevada, including more than $6 million for the construction of a new state-of-the-art corrosion control hangar at Fallon Naval Air Station," Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said. Reid is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which today considered military and agriculture spending bills.

Aircraft corrosion control is routine maintenance, Reid said. But the work should not be done in a standard hangar, as it is now. A new hangar would provide better heating and ventilation for the work, he said.

The military construction bill also includes:

The bill also included about $11 million for fire restoration work statewide to replace foliage lost in wildfires. The money also will pay for fencing and to beat back about 75,000 acres of the fast-burning cheatgrass, a non-native weed that chokes out native plants.

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