USTDA Commemorates 20th Anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam Relations by Supporting Two New Infrastructure Projects
July 9, 2015
(USTDA)
ARLINGTON, Va. – This week, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency commemorated
the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the
United States and Vietnam by signing two new grant agreements for infrastructure
development projects.
“In support of the U.S.-Vietnam partnership, the Agency has sponsored nearly 80
activities that have helped to expand access to power, increase the availability
of clean water and modernize transportation networks in Vietnam,” said USTDA
Director Leocadia I. Zak. “These new projects will highlight the role that U.S.
companies can continue to play in the development of infrastructure in Vietnam
and across the region.”
Director Zak signed a grant agreement with the Civil Aviation Authority of
Vietnam (CAAV) to support their efforts to meet civil aviation safety standards
established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The
Aviation Safety Oversight Group, Inc. (Hermitage, Tenn.) will provide technical
assistance through formal classroom and on-the-job training. This assistance
will review critical elements of aviation safety oversight that are consistent
with an inspector indoctrination course for operations, airworthiness and
licensing inspectors. This project builds upon two previous collaborations
between USTDA and CAAV that focused on improving CAAV’s air safety regulatory
system as well as expanding general and business aviation in Vietnam.
During an event at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the historic visit
to the United States by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, USTDA awarded a grant to the Phu
Cuong Group Corporation, a private sector firm. The grant will support its
efforts to develop a 170-Megwatt wind farm, the first in a planned series of
near-offshore wind power projects along Vietnam’s southern coastline in Soc
Trang province. The feasibility study will include a wind resource and energy
assessment, a review of permitting and land control issues, an electrical grid
interconnection and foundation design, construction cost estimates, and a
financing plan. The study builds upon USTDA’s portfolio of wind sector projects
in Vietnam, including an ongoing wind grid code development and renewable
integration feasibility study with the Electricity Regulatory Authority of
Vietnam, as well as another study to support the development of the planned
third phase of the Bac Lieu Wind Farm project in southern Vietnam.
The opportunity to conduct the USTDA-funded feasibility study for the Phu Cuong
wind farm project will be competed through Federal Business Opportunities (FBO).
A link to the FBO announcement will be posted to USTDA’s website at www.ustda.gov. Interested U.S.
firms should submit proposals according to the instructions in the FBO
announcement.
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