Budget Request for Arlington Cemetery Nearly Triples Amid Plans for Major Expansion
3 Jun 2021
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
Arlington National Cemetery would see its budget nearly triple in fiscal 2022 for a planned expansion that would connect it to the Air Force Memorial.
The Army's budget proposal calls for Arlington to receive $228 million, up from $81.8 million last year, for its southern expansion project -- an effort that would add 80,000 burial and inurnment sites to the historic cemetery.
The project has been in the works for nearly a decade. In 2012, the original plan proposed a land swap between Arlington County and the federal government for a road that runs between the cemetery and the memorial, as well as surrounding acreage needed for the realignment of a major county thoroughfare. The area involved is near the Air Force Memorial, including the former site of the Naval Annex, between the Pentagon and Gate 1 of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.
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