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Washington Post
May 3, 2008
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Montgomery County officials are calling on the Navy to push the Pentagon and Congress to approve federal funding for transit improvements around the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
In their official response this week to the Navy's final environmental impact statement last month for the planned expansion of the medical center, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) and County Council President Michael J. Knapp (D) praised the Navy for reversing its earlier stance that the projects did not meet criteria for funding under the federal Defense Access Road program.
The Navy said last month that it would request funding certification for proposals to improve intersections along Rockville Pike and to build a tunnel or bridge to carry pedestrians from the Medical Center Metro station across the busy road.
"Above all, we appreciate the Navy's change of position regarding the applicability" of the program, Leggett and Knapp wrote in their May 1 letter to Rear Adm. Richard R. Jeffries, the medical center's commander.
But the letter said that the Navy must work to convince the Pentagon and Congress "that these projects are an integral part of the wartime effort and must be authorized and fully funded."
--Steve Vogel
May 3, 2008
Pg. B3
Montgomery County officials are calling on the Navy to push the Pentagon and Congress to approve federal funding for transit improvements around the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
In their official response this week to the Navy's final environmental impact statement last month for the planned expansion of the medical center, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) and County Council President Michael J. Knapp (D) praised the Navy for reversing its earlier stance that the projects did not meet criteria for funding under the federal Defense Access Road program.
The Navy said last month that it would request funding certification for proposals to improve intersections along Rockville Pike and to build a tunnel or bridge to carry pedestrians from the Medical Center Metro station across the busy road.
"Above all, we appreciate the Navy's change of position regarding the applicability" of the program, Leggett and Knapp wrote in their May 1 letter to Rear Adm. Richard R. Jeffries, the medical center's commander.
But the letter said that the Navy must work to convince the Pentagon and Congress "that these projects are an integral part of the wartime effort and must be authorized and fully funded."
--Steve Vogel