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HOUSE OF DELEGATES
RICHMOND
UGO
FORTY-FOURTH DISTRICT
July 10, 2010
Hon. James Webb
United States Senate
502 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington ,D.C. 20510
Hon. Mark R. Warner
United States Senate
459A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Senator Webb and Senator Warner:
I am writing to encourage you to do all you can to ensure that HR 4899, supplemental
appropriations legislation, as soon as possible. The bill contains language appropriating $300 million for
Base Realignment and Relocation Commission (BRAC) improvements including $150 million of
improvements to U.S. 1 through Ft. Belvoir and improvements to the Newington Interchange secured by
Congressmen Jim Moran and Chris VanHollen. These investments are absolutely critical to partially
mitigate the impacts coming from the employee relocations to Ft. Belvoir, the National Geospatial‐
Intelligence Agency, the new U.S. Army Medical Command, and the pending construction of the U.S.
Army Museum near the Kingman Gate on the Fairfax County Parkway.
This project will be a major accomplishment when it comes to fruition. I have lived in this
community my entire life and my family moved to the Mount Vernon area in 1941. U.S. 1 has not been
widened between Telegraph Road and Huntington Avenue since the year I was born – 1971 – and we
are seeing the adverse impacts of that today.
After the state of our economy, U.S. 1 and the future traffic impacts caused by the BRAC process
was the number one issue on people’s minds as I went door‐to‐door last summer and fall. The U.S. 1
corridor is our business community, the key to future economic development in southeastern Fairfax
County and the heart of my delegate seat.
This improvement will be critical in bringing some measure of traffic relief to the U.S. 1 corridor.
Please do all you can to see that this legislation is passed when the Senate returns on July 12.
Sincerely Yours,
Delegate Scott A. Surovell
44th District, Mount Vernon