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“EARMARK DECLARATION” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E761-E763 on March 25, 2009.
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EARMARK DECLARATION
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HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN
of florida
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Speaker, pursuant to Republican Leadership standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following Information regarding earmarks I received as part of H.R. 1109, The Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009.
Project Name: Police Department Photography Lab Upgrades for the City of Miami
Amount Funded: $400,000
Account: COPS Law Enforcement Technology
Contact: Pedro G. Hernandez, City Manager, City of Miami
Address: 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida 33143
Description: The City of Miami Police Department Photo Lab Upgrades Project will upgrade and digitize the City's police department photo lab. Funds will be used to incorporate digital cameras, memory card readers and a digital photographic laboratory system which will replace the antiquated film technology that is currently in use. Funding for photo lab upgrades will facilitate the investigative and prosecutorial efforts of the law enforcement community in the City of Miami, with national crime fighting implications that extend beyond Southern Florida in circumstances when fugitives flee the City to avoid prosecution.
Project Name: Miami Beach After School Gang and Drug Prevention Program
Amount Funded: $200,000
Account: OJP--Bryne Discretionary Grants
Contact: Kevin Crowder, City of Miami Beach
Address: 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Description: Continued After-School and summer programs ensure youth
``growing-up'' within the system. These youth are less likely to entertain outside and detrimental participation in other unsupervised activities, such as involvement in gangs and/or drugs. Participation in the recently created Teen Intervention Program in North Beach has increased dramatically during the past year, as have the various programmatic offerings by the City. City of Miami Beach local funding is $642,167, or 23% of the program cost. Justification for use of federal taxpayer dollars.
Project Name: Life-Management Skill Intervention Program for At-Risk Youth
Amount Funded: $300,000
Account: OJP--Juvenile Justice
Contact: Susan Benson, ARISE Foundation
Address: 824 U.S. Highway 1, Suite 420, North Palm Beach, Florida 33408
Description: During 2006-07 Florida committed 7,187 juvenile offenders to residential delinquent treatment facilities. The Department of Juvenile Justice wants to increase their life chances according to the Models of Change (Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice). ARISE provides juvenile, justice facilities with specialized staff training and its unique curricula designed specifically for populations reading at approximately a third grade level. With over 260 easy-to-
administer ARISE life-management lessons, ARISE materials contain vital information necessary for reducing recidivism. The ARISE program provides both staff training and educational materials for teaching life lessons to incarcerated youth through interactive methods and help develop critical thinking skills needed to break the cycle of violence and crime that would otherwise doom many of these juvenile offenders to tragic lives of gang involvement, crime, drugs, disease and poverty.
Due to inherent problems staff have in dealing with incarcerated high risk youth, ARISE will expand its training program for Juvenile Care and Detention Officers in Florida's Juvenile Justice facilities, by introducing additional training topics such as anger management, non-
judgmental listening and conflict resolution. This training will be directed at reducing staff on youth conflict, and severe turnover of staff.
Project Name: City of Coral Gables Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements
Amount Funded: $500,000
Account: EPA-STAG Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
Contact: Alberto Delgado, Department of Public Works, City of Coral Gables
Address: 405 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables, Florida 33144
Description: The project meets the STAG match requirement. Funding would be used to make state-mandated upgrades to the City's wastewater infrastructure.
Project Name: Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements
Amounted Funded: $2,392,000
Account: Corps of Engineers, Construction
Contact: Clyde Burnett, City Manager, City of Marathon
Address: 9805 Overseas Highway, Marathon, Florida 33050
Description: The Florida Keys are required to meet rigid wastewater and stormwater management restrictions as well as near shore water quality and environmental protection standards.
Project Name: Miami Museum of Science Renewable Energy Research Project
Amount Funded: $713,625
Account: Department of Energy, EERE
Contact: Gillian Thomas, President and CEO, Miami Museum of Science
Address: 3280 S. Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida 33122
Description: Funding is requested for a research and development program aimed at enhancing understanding by Miami-Dade residents of programs related to alternative energy and energy efficiency technologies, with a special emphasis on Hispanic and Haitian communities.
Project Name: Miami Harbor Channel Dredging
Amount Funded: $478,000
Account: Corps of Engineers, O&M
Contact: Eric Olafson, Assistant Director, Miami-Dade County
Address: 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Description: This funding request is for the first phase of implementation, which includes the design, preparation of plans and specifications for bidding. Miami-Dade County is also seeking an additional source of PED funds through utilizing the funds that will be restored to the project, once the Port of Miami reimburses the Army Corps for its share of the costs of the General Reevaluation Report
(GRR). The Chief of Engineers has recommended the deepening project to 50-52 feet and Congress has authorized the project (Title I, Water Resources Development Act of 2007).
Project: Intracoastal Waterway, Jacksonville to Miami, Florida
Amount Funded: $4,019,000
Account: Corps of Engineers, O&M
Contact: David Roach, Executive Director, Florida Inland Navigation District
Address: 1314 Marcinski Road, Jupiter, Florida 33477
Description: Funds would be used to dredge the IWW in two locations:
(1) Matanzas Inlet (St. Johns County) and in the vicinity of St. Augustine. In addition, funds would be used to (1) restore a Dredged Material Management Area in St. Johns County and (2) construct a Dredged Material Management Area in Indian River County. The organization does not have a local match requirement with the Corps of Engineers.
Project: Miami River Maintenance Dredging Project
Amount Funded: $10,043,000
Account: Corps of Engineers, O&M
Contact: Eric Olafson, Assistant Director, Miami-Dade County
Address: 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Description: This request is for the final phase of the Miami River Dredging Project to restore authorized depth and width to the navigation channel. This project, funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers with a coalition of local sponsors led by Miami-Dade County, removes contaminated sediments from the Miami River, Florida's 4th largest port with an economic value of $4 billion. The local sponsor has exceeded all match requirements.
Project: Lower Keys Shuttle Bus Facilities
Amount Funded: $950,000
Account: Transportation, Bus and Bus Facilities
Contact: Jim Scholl, City Manager, City of Key West
Address: 525 Angela Street, Key West, Florida 33140
Description: Federal funds will assist the City in its efforts to improve the City's bus facilities. Specifically, funding will provide a modern maintenance facility to assist in improved bus facilities as well as passenger amenities such as waiting areas, bus transfer areas and ticketing areas
Project: Atlantic Greenway Corridor Netowork
Amount Funded: $570,000
Account: Transportation, TCSP
Contact: Kevin Crowder, City of Miami Beach
Address: 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Description: Through the development of the Atlantic Corridor Greenway Network, the City of Miami Beach is creating a regional alternative transportation network which will interconnect key intermodal centers, area business districts, cultural/tourism centers, residential neighborhoods, parking facilities, parks, schools and the beaches. The Network will be comprised of a citywide system of bicycle/
pedestrian accessways, enhanced public transit facilities, expanded bus service and innovative regional parking improvement programs.
Project: Little Venice Road Improvement Project, Phase II
Amount Funded: $95,000
Account: Transportation, TCSP
Contact: Clyde Burnett, City Manager, City of Marathon
Address: 9805 Overseas Highway, Marathon, Florida 33050
Description: The proposed project includes the installation of drainage and retention structures to minimize the destructive impacts from serious weather events. Additionally, the project proposes the installation of an asphaltic overlay for all road surfaces in the immediate area. This area constitutes 95th Streets to 117th Street south of the highway and connecting cross streets.
Project: Pedestrian Bridges in Coral Gables, Florida
Amount Funded: $142,500
Account: HUD, EDI
Contact: Maria Jimenez, Interim City Manager, City of Coral Gables
Address: 405 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables, Florida 33144
Description: The requested federal funding will be used to build pedestrian bridges next to the Hardee, Granada and Maynada bridges where vehicular traffic has created safety concerns for crossing pedestrians and cyclists. These new bridges will allow for more efficient and safer traffic flow throughout the City. Improved pedestrian safety along busy roadways in the City of Coral Gables will be the benefit of this project.
Project: Barry University Community Health and Minority Medicine Project
Amount Funded: $95,000
Account: DOE-Higher Education
Contact: Ann Paton, VP for Institutional Advancement
Address: 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida 33161
Description: Funding will be utilized to expand current lab facilities at Barry University's center for community health.
Project: Jackson Health System Facilities and Equipment
Amount Funded: $190,000
Account: HHS-HRSA
Contact: Jeanette Nunez, VP
Address: 1611 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136
Description: Funding will be used to upgrade Jackson Health System's information technology infrastructure. Jackson is a fully integrated health care system with 3 major hospitals, 12 primary care centers, 16 school-based clinics, a mental health facility, 2 mobile health vans and a major health plan. Jackson is also the primary safety net provider in Miami-
Dade County.
Project: Mercy Hospital Equipment Upgrades
Amount Funded: $95,000
Account: HHS-HRSA
Contact: Lois Blume, Grants Coordinator, Mercy Foundation
Address: 3663 South Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida 33133
Description: Mercy Hospital in Miami is seeking funding to upgrade equipment in three key healthcare areas: advanced cardiac video imaging technology, cardiac mapping technology, anesthesia machines, and a sterilization machine for surgical equipment.
Project: Miami-Dade College Medical Center Nursing Program Equipment
Amount Funded: $95,000
Account: HHS-HRSA
Contact: Joe Pena, Director of Federal Relations
Address: 300 NW 2nd Avenue, Suite 1402, Miami, Florida 33132
Description: To address a growing demand for healthcare professionals, Miami Dade College (MDC) School of Nursing requires additional programs and advanced training equipment in order to expand their successful nursing program.
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