The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $13.5 million contract for the construction of a hospital on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota.

Marion Trucking & Construction will start work on the Elbowoods Memorial Health Center in October. The facility replaces an existing clinic and serves as a replacement hospital for the one the tribe lost to the construction of the Garrison Dam in the 1950s.

Funding for the $17 million project came through an appropriations act.

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Firm awarded contract to build health-care facility (The Minot Daily News 9/16)

FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act:
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