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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 12, 2009
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HARPER ANNOUNCES KEY FIELD FAA GRANT
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) recently notified Tom Williams, the executive director of the Meridian Airport Authority, of a $481,235.00 grant award. The award, issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, allows Key Field to advance on a project to relocate the glide slope antenna from one side of the runway to the other. The relocation would accommodate a parallel taxiway that is currently being constructed.
“Key Field has a tremendous history in aviation,” said Congressman Gregg Harper. “From the days when the Key Brothers engineered mid-air refueling, to 1992 when the 186th began calling Key Field home, this airport has been an anchor in Meridian. Both the public and the military benefit from Key Field’s 10,000 feet of runways, the longest public runway in Mississippi.”
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A conservative man of faith and integrity, Gregg was elected in November, 2008 to serve the citizens of Mississippi’s Third Congressional District. Soon after the election, his peers elected him as the only freshman of the Republican Steering Committee in the House of Representatives. Gregg is the only Republican freshman appointed by Republican Minority Leader John Boehner to the Committee on House Administration and also sits on the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on the Budget. Gregg currently resides in Pearl with his wife of 29 years, Sidney, and their two children, Livingston and Maggie, where the Harpers are active members of Crossgates Baptist church.
