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Article: Port officials say funding level is inadequate to ensure security. (Up Front).(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 20, 2002
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More than eight months after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal program designed to beef up security at the nation's ports is way under-funded, port and industry officials claim.
Executives from the nation's ports, its shipping and other maritime-related companies -- including those in Los Angeles and Long Beach -- have inundated the Department of Transportation with requests for a combined $691.5 million -- far more than the $92.3 million that Congress has allotted immediately for port security.
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach alone applied for $56 million to fund a series of programs that port officials and Mayor James Hahn's port security task ...