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The Kansas City Plant (KCP) for Nuclear Weapons ComponentsBackground on KCP and the Nuclear Weapons Complex(more at Kansas City NNSA/Honeywell Watch ) Under the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2010 the President has provided Congress the classified Section 1251 Report as a plan to modernize the Nuclear Weapons Complex. This is the first year this report has been required. In November the Administration already released their second version of the plan, which increased the estimates over the original May version to an average of $8.6B per year for the next 10 years. This is in contrast to the previous 20-year average of $6.2B and the $5.1B average during the Cold War weapons build up
The Kansas City government has subsidized this new federal nuclear weapons production plant with $815 million in municipal bonds outside of NNSA’s annual budget. The new plant’s selected 180-acre site was mostly used for soybean farming. However, the Kansas City government declared that area “blighted” so that it could use bond authority under Missouri state law designed to fight urban blight to give NNSA a new bomb plant. Taxpayers will pay an estimated $4.5 billion over 20 years to lease and operate the new Kansas City Plant, which the City will own until private developers pay the bonds back through a lease-to-purchase scheme backed up by a virtually certain revenue stream from the federal government.
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