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Funding /from Pagedesign funding for the project in the military construction budget.Construction funds would be included in future budgets.Officials at the DefenseNuclear Agency have described the LB/TS as a compressed air driven tube, approximately 20 meters across and 300 meterslong, which would create a shock wave by a controlled release of high pressure gas. It is estimated the LB/TS would cost $2 million ayear to operate.Funding for Holloman Air Force Base is earmarked foradding or altering the communications maintenance facilities, dormitories and augmenting theWar Readiness Material Storage Depot.Other New Mexico projectsinclude $13.35 million towardaltering the Special Operation Forces maintenance hangar, avionics shop and flight simulator at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque and $4.7 million toward modernizing the SpaceSurveillance Antenna at Elephant Butte Naval Space Survey Field Station.Projects added at Bingaman’s request include $4 million toward construction of National Guard armories at Belen, Clovis and Farmington; $4.6 million toward construction or refurbishment ofNational Guard facilities in Clovis, Santa Fe and Springer and$2.9 million toward upgrading the Army Reserve center in SantaFe.
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Alamogordo Daily News
Alamogordo, New Mexico, US
Wed, Oct 25, 1989
Page 10
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