U.S. Customs and border protection awarded a contract for the construction of border walls to Dickinson, based on ND Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., for $ 309.46 million to build 27 new border walls in Santa Cruz County, Ariz, located in the CBP Tucson sector. The construction is expected to begin this fall.
The contract is financed by CBP 2021 Funds and the North -American Department of Security Homeland said it will close the openings on the border wall that remains of contracts canceled during the Biden administration. The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, also resigned from the environmental rules for federal construction, including the National Law of Environmental Policy, for another wall project in Texas. This is the fifth resignation signed by Noem for the construction of the border wall. Previously, environmental rules for all wall projects in Arizona and New Mexico were resigned.
The resignation covers the Rio Grande Valley Wall project (9 miles with an additional 8 kilometers in options), which is funded by CBP FY 2021’s appropriations. The Tucson final contract is the final work contract announced earlier this month in Arizona and Nou Mexico and the last of the approved and funded projects with CBP appropriated 2021.
Environmental groups are opposed to the resignation of environmental rules and the efforts of larger border wall.
“ This valley represents the last major biodiversity point in the biodiversity of Southern Arizona in the border region, a critical aisle of wildlife in the middle of the islands of the sky and the birthplace of the Santa Cruz river, where species such as the Jaguar and Ocelot in end of extinction, as well as the black bear and other Roam species, “ the coordinator of the Erick Meze border. “The 25 -kilometer blockade of this landscape will reduce connectivity for countless animals, pushing species already vulnerable to extinction.”
In his reconciliation package that voted in May, the Chamber of representatives Dollars of $ 46.5 billion was included for financing hundreds of new kilometers of border wall over the next four years. The Senate Finance Committee can expand the border wall funding to more than $ 50 billion in tax dollars.
