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State pressure from Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pushed Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to abandon a plan for Islamic ablution washing stations in Terminal D, with Abbott directing a review of state grants to entities operating both DFW and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport for possible revocation.
He simultaneously referred both airports to the U.S. Department of Transportation for investigation, calling the proposed installations unconstitutional.
The filing and the numbers The project had been registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on July 31. That initial filing put the cost at $300,000 and listed the funding source as private.
DFW later attributed both details to administrative errors by its outside design firm.
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