WASHINGTON -- Federal money is coming for the memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93.

Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey and U.S. Reps.John Murtha and Bill Shuster made the announcement on Wednesday.

According to a news release from Specter's office, the Flight 93 National Memorial will receive more than $5.4 million as contained in the Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations bill. The Senate approved the measure Tuesday night, and the legislation will now go to the president for his signature.

Of that money about $4.2 million will go to help construct the infrastructure and roads to provide access to and around the memorial and $1.2 million will go to the National Park Service to help protect the ground where the plane crashed, as well as developing a plaza along the edge of the crash site.

A temporary memorial to the 40 victims was established shortly after the crash at the site, which is in a large field just north of Shanksville in Somerset County.

Some 250,000 annual visitors are expected to view the grounds annually.

For more information, visit www.nps.gov/flni.

The funding announcement comes on the heels of a February meeting where several officials signed a Letter of Commitment to have the memorial dedicated by Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the attacks.