The post south of Tacoma will receive $7.4 million – part of an overall $248 million package of emergency funds announced by Army Secretary Pete Geren.

Living conditions came under scrutiny last month after the father of a Fort Bragg, N.C., paratrooper posted a video on the Internet showing mold in his son’s barracks, peeling interior paint and a bathroom drain plugged with sewage.

The ensuing inspections were done the last week of April and covered nearly 150,000 barracks rooms. They found that 45 repairs needed priority attention, including new heating and cooling equipment, repainting and mold removal.

At Fort Lewis, a spokesman said the work will amount to minor repairs and maintenance.

“During the recent worldwide inspection of barracks, we did not find any of the serious life, health or safety issues that the inspection was intended to find,” spokesman Joseph Piek said in a statement. “However, we do have barracks on Fort Lewis that we’d like to improve on behalf of soldiers. We are never satisfied with the living conditions we present them, and they deserve our best efforts.”

Since 1995, Fort Lewis has built 17 barracks in the North Fort area and four on the main post, Piek said. Another $1.9 billion of barracks work is planned between now and 2012 to accommodate growth at Fort Lewis, plus troops redeploying from overseas, he said.

Of the $7.4 million announced Friday, Piek said: “We’re grateful for additional resources, and we intend to use those to make conditions even better for our soldiers.”

He said it hadn’t been decided which facilities would get immediate attention.

Geren, the Army secretary who last month called the Fort Bragg conditions unacceptable, said that $248 million in emergency funds have been appropriated to fix problems found during the inspections.

Thousands of soldiers are assigned to barracks built for the GIs who fought during World War II and the Korean War, and the buildings are showing their age.

Lolita C. Baldor of The Associated Press and Matt Misterek of The News Tribune contributed to this report.

BARRACKS DUE FOR REPAIRS

The Army identified eight installations Friday that will get priority barracks repairs. In addition to Fort Lewis, other funding will go to:

 • Fort Polk, La., $166 million

 • Fort Gordon, Ga., $49.7 million

 • West Point, N.Y., $9.3 million

 • Fort Stewart, Ga., $6.2 million

 • Fort Bragg, N.C., $2.9 million (in addition to the $2.6 million already spent on the barracks there, triggered by a video of poor conditions)

 • Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, $1.7 million

 • Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., $1.2 million