The funds volition beryllium invested successful infrastructure projects and different initiatives to summation the worth of subject installations successful Texas and support jobs.
TEXAS, USA — Gov. Greg Abbott announced a caller circular of $13.1 cardinal successful assistance backing from the Texas Military Preparedness Commission’s (TMPC) Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant (DEAAG) program.
Goodfellow and Dyess Air Force bases some received portion of the latest circular of assistance money.
The grants assistance Texas subject communities that whitethorn beryllium impacted by immoderate aboriginal basal realignment and closure (BRAC) process. The funds volition beryllium invested successful infrastructure projects and different initiatives to summation the worth of Texas subject installations and support jobs successful those communities.
The City of Abilene was awarded $300,000 for information sensor installation astatine Dyess AFB. Tom Green County was awarded $2,000,000 for occurrence presumption conversion and $1,295,400 for expeditionary readiness grooming halfway enlargement astatine Goodfellow AFB.
“In Texas, our enactment for our nation’s mighty subject is agelong and enduring," Abbott said successful a merchandise from his office. “Today, Texas is the arrogant location to much than 1.76 cardinal veterans, serving subject members, and civilian defence personnel, positive their families. The 15 large subject installations located successful communities crossed the state, successful summation to the Army Futures Command, adhd implicit $114 cardinal to our system and enactment much than 622,000 nonstop and indirect jobs crossed Texas. Their missions are not lone of the highest value to nationalist information and the occurrence of our military, they are besides astatine the forefront of innovation successful cybersecurity, space, medicine, and more. I look guardant to continuing to enactment with the Texas Legislature, TMPC, and our subject communities to enactment our nation’s subject and guarantee these installations stay unmatched resources for our nation.”
This circular of backing is successful summation to $15.3 cardinal successful DEAAG grants announced earlier this year. Since 2015, Gov. Abbott has awarded much than $111 cardinal successful grants to subject communities done the DEAAG program.
Other Texas entities who volition person FY2022-2023 DEAAG reimbursements are:
- City of Corpus Christi: $1,611,159 for Wastewater Collection System Line and Manhole Replacement astatine NAS Corpus Christi
- City of El Paso: $850,000 for Bert Williams – Iron Dust-Off Bypass astatine Fort Bliss
- City of Fort Worth: $350,000 for Anti-Terrorism Protections Security System astatine NAS JRB Fort Worth
- City of Killeen: $5,000,000 fo r Lake Belton Water Treatment Plant astatine Fort Hood
- City of Kingsville: $1,700,000 for Kingsville Fire & Rescue Facility astatine NAS Kingsville.
The Texas Military Preparedness Commission successful the Office of the Governor advises the politician and the legislature connected defence and subject issues. TMPC’s extremity is to preserve, protect, grow and pull caller subject missions, assets and installations successful Texas. Additionally, the TMPC encourages defense-related businesses to grow oregon relocate successful Texas. The committee is composed of 13 members serving six-year staggered terms, typically representing an installation successful their community.
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