For Immediate Release

February 5, 2007

NAVY REQUESTS $91 MILLION FOR PIER REPLACEMENT AT PSNS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bush Administration’s defense budget for the next fiscal year includes $91.07 million for the replacement of Pier B at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks said Monday.

The budget for Fiscal Year 2008 will fully fund the Navy’s plan to demolish the existing Pier B and replace it with a larger, more capable platform with heavy-lift crane capability.  Pier B is 60 years old and it is poorly-configured for modern and efficient maintenance operations, Rep. Dicks said.  The upgrade will also add new utility services for carriers and other ships that are undergoing in-water maintenance prior to or following drydocking in Dry Dock 6 at the yard, the congressman noted.

Rep. Dicks serves as the Vice-Chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and also as a member of the Subcommittee on Military Construction.

The funding request comes at a critical time, Rep. Dicks said, in order to allow the reconstruction of the pier prior to anticipated carrier overhauls in Fiscal Year 2010.

The Bush Administration’s budget proposal also included another increment of $47.24 million for the construction of a Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Naval Station Bremerton, similar to a $34 million BEQ constructed with funds appropriated by Congress three years ago in Bremerton.

The Bremerton projects were part of an overall $464 million request for construction projects at Washington State military facilities in the next fiscal year.  Other state projects included in the request were:

NAVY:  SUBMARINE BASE BANGOR

$39.75 million for a Limited Area Production & Storage Complex (Increment 4)
$28.69 million for a Missile Assembly Building
 

ARMY:  FORT LEWIS:

$102 million for a Stryker Brigade complex (2nd of 4 increments)
$5 million for an indoor range
$21 million for a Medical/Dental Clinic
$47 million for a Special Operations Command Battalion Operations Complex
$30 million for a Special Operations Command Battalion Support Complex


ARMY:  YAKIMA FIRING CENTER

$29 million for a Digital Multipurpose Range Comples

NAVY:  WHIDBEY ISLAND NAS

$23.91 million for EA-18G Facility Improvements}

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