New funding for Everglades from Recovery Act
Congressman Ron Klein (FL-22) announced Friday that $38 million in stimulus funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be used to create jobs in South Florida. The funding will help preserve and protect the Everglades for future generations, and will create jobs for carpenters, concrete finishers, truck drivers, pile drivers, equipment operators, divers, and masons. It requires subcontractors which will be hired by local businesses, creating quality, high-paying jobs in our community.
Congressman Klein and his colleagues in the South Florida Congressional delegation fought to release this funding from a bureaucratic black hole, and instead put it to work creating jobs in our community. Now that the Corps has been cleared to put this money to work, it will be used for construction projects in southern Palm Beach County that will help keep water at healthy levels at the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
“This is great news for the Everglades and great news for the local businesses, contractors and subcontractors who will be able to hire new employees and put more South Floridians to work in high-paying jobs,” Klein said. “From the very beginning, I said that every single Recovery Act stimulus project must create jobs in the short term and provide tangible, long term benefits to our community in the long term. Investing in construction for the Everglades does both – it will create jobs right away and help preserve and protect the natural treasure of the Everglades for future generations.”
“We must continue to do every single thing we can to create jobs and turn the tide toward economic recovery in South Florida,” Klein said. “That has been and will continue to be my main focus in the days and weeks ahead.”
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Posted by Andrea Freygang
on Jan 23 2010. Filed under Broward County, Environmental, Everglades, Federal Government, Local news, Water management.
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