Washington, Feb 12, 2008 -

U.S. Congressman John R. Carter (TX-31), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, today announced that $357,000 has been included in the 2008 Omnibus spending bill for Range Revegetation at Fort Hood.  This is a joint project between the Texas Water Resources Institute and Fort Hood to revegetate 30,000 acres where heavy artillery traffic has disturbed soils and left the land largely without vegetation.  This plan also gives Fort Hood the ability to utilize more if its land for training purposes as well as removing substantial amounts of composted dairy manure from the North Bosque River watershed.

“I remain committed to ensuring that our service men and women have the training facilities they need to best prepare them for combat.  I applaud the partners in this project and am pleased to have once again secured funding for practices that will improve Fort Hood’s training facilities while being good stewards of the environment,” Congressman Carter said.

The 2008 Omnibus spending bill passed the House and the Senate in 2007 and was signed into law by the President late last year.