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PARSONS -- Projects in Tucker County and Pocahontas County are among the West Virginia projects to receive federal funding in a bipartisan appropriations package.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the funding Monday.
Manchin said $1.2 million in funding will go to replace stormwater systems in Tucker County, to improve flood safety.
He added that $6 million in funds will go to expand the Pocahontas Memorial Hospital, among projects involving upgrading healthcare infrastructure.
Manchin (D-WV) voted to secure a number of West Virginia priorities in the appropriations package, which included the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Defense; Financial Services and General Government; Homeland Security; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Legislative Branch; and State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs funding bills.
The six funding bills included critical priorities Manchin championed, including strengthening border security, blocking drugs at the border, stopping the ban on gas stoves and improving miners' health and safety, officials said.
The bills also included $138,442,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) requests, or earmarks, for 80 West Virginia projects.
"I voted for the remaining six of the FY24 funding bills," Manchin said. "As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I was proud to secure key priorities for our state and our nation that will help address the crisis at our southern border, reign-in radical federal regulations, promote all-of-the-above American energy, and ensure West Virginia coal miners and their communities get the federal resources they deserve.
"This package also includes more than $138 million in Congressionally Directed Spending for projects like creating a state-of-the-art neurosciences institute at the Charleston Area Medical Center, expanding and renovating the West Virginia University School of Dentistry and constructing the Marshall Community Health Institute at Marshall University.
"I look forward to seeing President Biden sign this legislation into law and I will continue advocating for West Virginian and American priorities while also working to promote fiscal responsibility," Manchin said.