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Ellsworth Development Authority seeks funding to address B‑21 expansion impacts; cites school capacity and community infrastructure needs
Summary
Scott Langeth and Tony Nishimura briefed the committee on the economic and service impacts of the B‑21 basing and related construction, asked lawmakers to consider Senate Bills 6 and 16 to help offset community costs, and described steps taken to reduce incompatible land uses around Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Scott Langeth, executive director of the Ellsworth Development Authority, and Tony Nishimura, the authority's military community relations director, told the Joint Committee on Appropriations that the B‑21 basing and related construction at Ellsworth Air Force Base will generate major local impacts and that two bills (Senate Bill 6 and Senate Bill 16) aim to help address those impacts.
Langeth said the authority — created by the Legislature in 2009 after base realignment threats — has worked to strengthen the region's bid for missions by expanding training airspace, reducing incompatible land use and building infrastructure that improved the base's standing in prior BRAC evaluations. "That expansion will have impacts in the community. It's gonna be over $2,000,000,000 in construction on the base, create nearly 1,600 new jobs when everything is settled," Langeth said.
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