GSA Allocates Half its FY 2011 Construction Budget for FDA in White Oak
Posted June 22, 2011
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The General Services Administration (GSA) will be allocating $44 million of its $82 million Fiscal Year 2011 construction budget for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) consolidation project at White Oak in Montgomery and Prince George's counties.
The Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 2011 reduced funding for GSA construction projects to $82 million and provided no designated funding for the FDA's White Oak facility. On April 29, Senators Cardin and Mikulski and Representatives Hoyer, Van Hollen and Edwards wrote to GSA Administrator Martha Johnson urging the agency to include as much funding as possible for the FDA consolidation.
When completed, the more than 1 million square feet of usable office space at the White Oak FDA complex will house more than 9,000 permanent employees. The FDA complex is designed to be the first Leadership in Environmental Engineering and Design (LEED) certified campus in the country.
The project has employed hundreds of workers over the course of the construction.
"The allocation of more than half of GSA's construction budget for this project ... will help the FDA consolidate the agency into one, modern campus with the most up-to-date scientific equipment that is needed to protect the health and safety of all Americans," said U.S. Senator Ben Cardin in a statement.
"Consolidating FDA's offices and laboratories at White Oak will allow some of the world's top researchers to move out of dilapidated working conditions and into state-of-the-art facilities," added House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD-5th). "However, this allocation still falls far short of what will be needed to complete the FDA Headquarters Consolidation project on schedule."
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