{"id":7057,"date":"2021-06-30T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/press-releases\/chatham-county-sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-announce-federal-grant-for-savannah-hilton-head-international-airport\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:21:17","slug":"chatham-county-sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-announce-federal-grant-for-savannah-hilton-head-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/chatham-county-sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-announce-federal-grant-for-savannah-hilton-head-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"CHATHAM COUNTY: Sens. Ossoff, Rev. Warnock Announce Federal Grant for Savannah\/Hilton Head International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Department of Transportation will&nbsp;award $6,000,000 to the Savannah\/Hilton Head International Airport to expand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>As a member of the Senate transportation committee,&nbsp;Senator Warnock&nbsp;continues to prioritize&nbsp;Georgia\u2019s workers,&nbsp;and subsequent investments in state&nbsp;infrastructure<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em><u>Senator Warnock<\/u><\/em><\/strong><em>:&nbsp;\u201cThis crucial federal investment will keep one of Georgia\u2019s most frequented airports running efficiently and keep Georgia\u2019s beautiful coast accessible to the rest of the state\u2014and country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Today, U.S. Senators&nbsp;Reverend Warnock and Jon Ossoff announced&nbsp;a new&nbsp;$6 million&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/grants.ost.dot.gov\/public\/ViewMessage.cfm?MsgID=jahpn3vw7z\">grant<\/a>&nbsp;from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)&nbsp;to expand the tarmac at&nbsp;Savannah\/Hilton Head International Airport. This grant will allow the airport to better serve its more than 900,000 passengers per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/airports\/planning_capacity\/passenger_allcargo_stats\/passenger\/media\/cy14-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf\">year<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;updating and refurbishing&nbsp;the area&nbsp;where planes are parked, loaded, and refueled.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThis award is wonderful news for Savannah\/Hilton Head International Airport and the employees and pilots who work out of this airport year round,\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;said Senator Warnock.&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cThis&nbsp;crucial&nbsp;federal investment will&nbsp;keep one of Georgia\u2019s most frequented airports running efficiently and keep Georgia\u2019s beautiful coast accessible to the rest of the state<s>\u2014<\/s>and country.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI\u2019m proud to announce that Senator Reverend Warnock and I have secured $6 million for&nbsp;upgrades&nbsp;at Savannah\/Hilton Head International Airport,\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;said Senator Ossoff.&nbsp;<strong><em>\u201cImproving quality of life and creating&nbsp;jobs and&nbsp;opportunity in coastal Georgia is&nbsp;among&nbsp;our top priorities.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This announcement follows Sens. Warnock and Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warnock.senate.gov\/?post_type=press_releases&amp;p=64641&amp;preview=true\">announcement<\/a>&nbsp;of a nearly $47 million investment from DOT to complete construction of the Northeast Georgia Inland Port in Gainesville, which would directly link local companies with the Port of Savannah by adding 324 miles of intermodal freight rail service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Transportation will&nbsp;award $6,000,000 to the Savannah\/Hilton Head International Airport to expand As a member of the Senate transportation committee,&nbsp;Senator Warnock&nbsp;continues to prioritize&nbsp;Georgia\u2019s workers,&nbsp;and subsequent investments in state&nbsp;infrastructure Senator Warnock:&nbsp;\u201cThis crucial federal investment will keep one of Georgia\u2019s most frequented airports running efficiently and keep Georgia\u2019s beautiful coast accessible to the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7057\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}