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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 2, 2008
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Contact: Zach Goldberg
202-225-5801 (office) |
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HOLT SECURES $500,000 FOR TRENTON FLOOD MITIGATION PROJECT
President Signs Bill That Includes Funds to Elevate the Utilities of Flood Prone Properties
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(Washington, D.C.) – Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) announced today that the Fiscal Year 2009 Department of Homeland Security funding bill, which passed Congress last week and which President Bush signed earlier this week, includes his request for $500,000 in new funding for a key flood mitigation project in the City of Trenton. The funding will help homeowners whose properties are in flood-prone areas. Holt requested the funding earlier this year and worked to get it included in the final bill.
“Trenton’s Island and Glen Afton neighborhoods frequently are affected severely when the Delaware River floods,” Holt said. “This funding is a down payment for a project that will help prevent homeowners from suffering damage to furnaces and water heaters in floods.”
The $500,000 in new federal funding will help the city of Trenton initiate a project to elevate the utilities of the properties that have suffered repetitive damages. The owners of 270 identified properties will receive money for rewiring the electrical system and redirecting the duct work so that hot water and furnace systems can be moved above the first floor.
Earlier in the week, Holt announced that the funding bill includes his request for $13.44 million in new funding for communications and intelligence programs and activities at Fort Monmouth.
The $13.44 million in new federal funding will strengthen existing intelligence and communications programs at Fort Monmouth. Included in the bill is:
$2.8 million for both communications and non-communications electronic counter-measures (ECM) programs. These programs are designed to help distinguish friendly from enemy ECM emissions, and to improve the survivability of aviation platforms, ground combat vehicles, and dismounted forces.
$4 million for new counter-improvised explosive device (IED) programs to meet both short and long-term threats.
$2.4 million for a new electronic warfare simulator to help improve and hasten the development and fielding of software and hardware upgrades needed to protect Army helicopters from current and emerging air defense threats.
$2 million to speed the development of a high definition video compression and encoding technology that will improve the Army’s video intelligence collection and analysis capabilities.
$1.6 million for critical information assurance programs, which help to ensure that information on Army computer systems and networks remain reliable and resistant to enemy information warfare attacks.
$640,000 for other key command, control, and communications (C3) technology programs.
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