More than $30 million coming to Silver State for vital projects that will create jobs

March 26, 2009

Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid today announced stimulus funding totaling more than $30 million to help a variety of important efforts in housing, clean energy, energy efficiency and transportation. A number of these projects will create jobs for Nevadans.
 
More than $10 million will go to help make vital improvements to public housing units in Nevada. The funds will be distributed through local municipalities. The Nevada Housing Division will also receive $3.7 million for weatherization work that will increase the energy efficiency of homes and business, as well as put Nevadans in jobs by training them to perform this work.
 
More funding for clean energy improvements will go to Fallon Naval Air Station and Hawthorne Army Depot for geothermal energy. Fallon will receive $9.1 million for geothermal energy development and Hawthorne gets $3.1 million for geothermal test wells.
 
Construction jobs will be created through rehabilitation work slated for Reno-Tahoe International Airport and Boulder City Airport. More than $2 million will go to Reno to work on the airport apron and more than $1 million is slated to improve the runway in Boulder City.
 
“The economic recovery package was designed to put people back to work, and that’s exactly what this money does in Nevada,” Reid said. “We’ll accomplish this while improving our public facilities and moving closer toward our clean energy future.”