Projects for the Little Rock Air Force Base in the Jacksonville are:

• $6.4 million for an Airman Dining Facility
  
• $2.5 million for an alternate taxiway at the All American Drop Zone assault strip
  
• Language allowing the Air Force to sell a railroad easement to Jacksonville for $54,000. This would deed a portion of rail line from the U.S. Gov’t. to the city of Jacksonville and be used for its future rail transportation needs and expansion.

Project for Camp Robinson in North Little Rock:

• Language allowing the Nat’l Guard to exchange land on which to build an aviation support facility. The land exchange with a private contractor will facilitate the construction of an important aviation support facility that has already been federally funded. The exchange, roughly 300 acres for 300 acres, is essentially of equal value but allows the construction of the aviation support facility without the risk of encroachment by residential areas that would restrict flight operations out of Camp Robinson.

“This recommendation from the Readiness Subcommittee is the first of several approval processes,” said Congressman Vic Snyder. “It is an important first step to the construction of these worthwhile projects at the Little Rock Air Force Base and Camp Robinson.”

The bill will next have to be approved by the full House Armed Services Committee.

Congressman Vic Snyder, a former Marine and Vietnam Veteran, serves on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and the House Armed Services Committee. He is the ranking member of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel.

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