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Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, celebrated the ribbon cutting for the Fairbanks Museum Science Annex with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Farah Ahmad and local leaders. The project was funded in part by $2.5 million in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) for a USDA Rural Development (RD) Community Facilities grant secured by Senator Welch, along with a grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC). From the groundbreaking two years ago to todays ribbon cutting, its been outstanding to watch the Fairbanks Science Museum Annex project be built from the ground up. This will showcase an innovative new use low-carbon timber product called mass timberthe first example of the product in Vermont and the first ever funded by the USDAadd an estimated 70 new jobs over the coming five years, and make science more accessible to all Vermonters, said Senator Welch. I am so privileged to be in this public/private partnership with the USDA and Senator Welch in helping make this happen, said Oscar Tang, philanthropist and retired financier.