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Communities Reimbursed For TWA Flight 800 Crash Costs

By Newsradio 88 Staff

State and local agencies in New York are getting reimbursed for the cost of cleaning up after the deadly crash TWA Flight 800 crash, last summer, off the coast of Long Island.

Congress approved the 12.4-million dollars in funding, the President is expected to do the same.

The state gets 5-million dollars, almost 6-million goes to Suffolk County, New York City gets a million, and 320-thousand dollars goes to Nassau County.