BWI Airport To Receive Over $13M In Federal Funding

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressman John Sarbanes announced $13,231,306 successful national backing for the Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport.

This includes implicit $3,250,000 successful backing from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. These funds volition assistance enactment important infrastructure improvements to the airport.

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Van Hollen is simply a subordinate of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee connected transportation, lodging and municipality development, and related agencies and represents Maryland.

“BWI is simply a important connector for our authorities – we volition support moving successful Congress to supply national backing for this captious proscription hub to spur economical maturation successful our portion and guarantee safe, reliable, and businesslike work for Marylanders and visitors alike,” Van Hollen said.

Senator Cardin, Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, says that these upgrades volition amended service the authorities of Maryland.

“The Maryland delegation volition proceed our efforts successful bringing once-in-a-generation infrastructure authorities crossed the decorativeness enactment to modernize and amended our proscription infrastructure crossed the state,” Cardin said.

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Funding volition beryllium divided successful 2 ways, the archetypal is to allocate $12,231,306 to displacement oregon reconfigure Taxiway F from its existent airfield determination to conscionable Federal Aviation Administration plan standards.

The 2nd is providing $1,000,000 to grow the existing Terminal Concourse A/B connector and baggage handling strategy by 140,000 quadrate feet to summation capableness to conscionable the operational needs of the airport.

These funds were provided done the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to the Maryland Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Maryland Aviation Administration.

Members of the Maryland delegation person fought for backing to enactment section airports passim the COVID-19 pandemic and person delivered Maryland airports implicit $98 cardinal successful backing done the American Rescue Plan, implicit $24 cardinal successful backing done the December Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, and implicit $107 cardinal successful backing done the CARES Act.

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CBS Baltimore Staff