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Washington, D.C. – The Alaska Congressional Delegation announced the following grants:
Economic Development Administration:
- $1,000,000 to the City of Nome for its port construction project
- $697,991 to the Association of Village Council of Presidents for the Aviation Mechanics Program Training Equipment
National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” Program
- $14,900 to KCHU in Valdez, Alaska
- $9,000 to the Friends of the Homer Public Library
National Science Foundation:
- $499,044 to University of Alaska Fairbanks for “RCN: The Stream Resiliency Research Coordination Network” project
- $231,194 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for “Natural History Digitization of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Marine Invertebrate Collections”