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WEST VIRGINIA....
Last year, the U.S. General Services Administration was allocated $5.5 billion in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to upgrade federal buildings and courthouses across the United States and U.S. Virgin Islands. Renovations are under way at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in downtown Charleston as part of the national, multi-billion dollar effort to reduce the carbon footprint of federal buildings. The Robert C. Byrd courthouse received approximately $5 million in funding from the Recovery Act. The money is being used to replace the roof of the 12 year old building and install a solar panel system to generate electricity. In addition to the roof work, lighting fixtures in the facility's parking garage will be replaced with more energy-efficient fixtures. Improvements will be made to the building's heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems to make them more efficient as well.