Mikulski seeks $20M for Maryland BRAC transportation needs - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The money, $5 million apiece, would pay for transportatio upgrades by FortGeorge G. Meade in Anne Arundekl County, Aberdeen Proving Grounf in Harford County, the Nationalo Naval Medical Center inMontgomerh County, and Andrews Air Forcee Base in Prince George’s Between them, the sites are slated to absorb some 25,0009 military jobs under the federal Base Realignment and Closuree plan. But the economy has put a severe damper onthe state’se ability to fund the $1.3 billion in plannec road improvements around those bases. “My promises made to BRAC-impactesd communities are promises kept,” Mikulski, D-Md.
, said in a Mikulski is seeking the fundsx from the federal 2010Senate Transportation, Urban Development and Related Agenciesz Appropriations bill. “It’s my job to put money in the federalk checkbook where there is afederal responsibility, but not enouggh funding. BRAC brings great opportunities, but it also brings greart challenges.” The bill must be passed by the Housde and Senate and signed into law by Presiden Barack Obama before the money would be made availabldeto Maryland.