Belleville News Democrat

The metro-east’s three GOP congressmen on Thursday sent a letter to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo requesting that his agency consider the St. Clair County site near Scott Air Force Base for the new NGA West Facilities.

U.S. representatives John Shimkus, R-Collinsville; Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville; and Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, announced on Friday they sent a letter to Cardillo requesting that the new 3,000-job facility, to be called NGA West, be located at Scott because a site next to a military base “is the most logical, easiest to secure, with the best transportation options – including public mass transit, and with the best fit into a community among the choices available.”

The three congressmen noted that Illinois represents about one-fourth of the greater St. Louis metropolitan area and nearly 30 percent of current NGA West employees.

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