Funding Requests
An important part of my job as your U.S. Senator is to help Washington state communities and businesses get federal support for projects that will create jobs, get our economy moving and make a difference for Washington’s families.
My staff and I have taken a look at all of the project requests that have come in this year. We put a priority on those that have broad-based local support and will create jobs and generate economic growth.
We are facing tough economic times. Families are struggling. So while we work to bring federal funding home, I have made it a priority to also ensure that these projects have been well vetted and that we are using taxpayer money responsibly. That’s why I’m glad to post all of the projects that I am requesting funding for here on my Web site. I believe that the process should be transparent and that all of you should be able to see the requests I am making as your representative in Congress.
Now, budgets are tight on the federal level as well. So, just because I have requested funding for a project, it doesn’t mean that the money will come through. I will continue to update this site with new requests I am making and with the projects that end up being funded.
Appropriation Subcommittee FY10 Requests:
- Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies
- Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies
- Defense
- Energy and Water Development
- Financial Services
- Homeland Security
- Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
- Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
- Safetea-LU Authorization Extension
- Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
FY09 Overseas Contingency Operations Supplemental Bill
FY10 DoD Authorization Request
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Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies
Project Title: Aegilops Cylindrica (Jointed Goatgrass) (WA,OR)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $350,000
Location: Pullman, WA and other locations
Purpose: This funding will be used for research to examine plant material for development of biofuels.
Importance: This research will further efforts to develop cellulosic biofuels that grow best in the Pacific Northwest and contribute to our nation’s energy needs while removing weedy plant material from highly-productive grain-growing areas.
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Project Title: Agricultural Research Service Facility in Pullman, Washington
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $48,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to construct a research laboratory facility to support plant science research units that are currently operating in inadequate and outdated facilities and permits farmers to take advantage of ongoing agricultural research.
Importance: Construction of a new facility will increase the quality of research efforts of the USDA, which will ensure that American producers remain competitive in a global marketplace.
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Project Title: Agricultural Water Use Efficiency and Water Quality
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $500,000
Location: Prosser, WA
Purpose: This funding would establish a new research position within USDA that will focus on new approaches to facilitate improved land use, water use efficiency, and crop rotation options.
Importance: Irrigated cropping systems are used in much of the Inland Northwest and across the country, and this research would result in advances to balancing agriculture and wildlife needs while improving yields and maintaining soil quality.
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Project Title: Aquaculture (WA, ID)
Recipient: Washington State University/University of Idaho
Amount: $764,000
Location: Pullman, WA and Long Beach, WA/Moscow, ID, Boise, ID, and Hagerman, ID
Purpose: This funding will be used to address constraints limiting the aquaculture industry, including domestic and foreign pathogens and invasive species.
Importance: Aquaculture, such as oyster production, is an important part of the Pacific Northwest agricultural economy and this work will ensure continued success of this vital industry. Without needed research, the aquaculture industry could significantly decline in the Pacific Northwest.
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Project Title: Blaine Water Reclamation Facility
Recipient: City of Blaine
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Blaine, Washington
Purpose: The goal is the completion of a facility that will provide wastewater treatment for the people of Blaine.
Importance: This needed treatment plant will replace inadequate water facilities, avoid polluting discharges into local waters and allow preservation of a Native American Heritage site.
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Project Title: Cathlamet Water Treatment Facility
Recipient: Town of Cathlamet
Amount: $500,000
Location: Cathlamet, Washington
Purpose: The goal is the completion of a facility that will provide wastewater treatment for the people of Cathlamet.
Importance: This needed treatment plant will provide water to residents of rural Cathlamet and prevent risk of wastewater polluting the Columbia River, causing significant environmental harm.
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Project Title: Cereal Rust Disease Initiative
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used for research to address highly virulent and aggressive new varieties of steam, leaf and stripe rust, which threaten U.S. production of wheat, barley and oats.
Importance: Diseases cost the wheat, barley and oat industries billions of dollars per year in lost production and low quality end-use products. With this research, we will be able to avoid diseases that could destroy staple crops and maintain food security.
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Project Title: Competitiveness of Agricultural Products (WA)
Recipient: Washington State University/University of Washington
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA/Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used to apply science and technology to improve the competitiveness of Washington’s agricultural products by determining new export marketing opportunities, assessing the effect of changing agricultural and trade policies, and solving technical problems.
Importance: Ensuring continued export opportunities is critical to the overall economy of the Pacific Northwest and this program specifically benefits Washington’s rural economies by keeping producers competitive in a global marketplace.
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Project Title: Cool Season Legume Research (ID, WA, ND)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $575,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used for research that supports the identification of genetically superior qualities for legumes through breeding processes.
Importance: Continuing this research is critical to the ongoing sustainability of the U.S. dry pea, lentil and chickpea industries, which are major contributors to Washington’s agriculture economy and producers of healthy foods sold worldwide.
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Project Title: Diabetes Detection and Prevention (WA)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $850,000
Location: Puyallup, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide educational programs to help individuals with diabetes live well.
Importance: This program has resulted in meaningful changes by many participants related to diet, physical activity, and confidence and is aimed at catching and responding to diabetes-related health conditions before they become more costly and harmful to health.
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Project Title: Edible Legume Cultivar Development
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $800,000
Location: Prosser, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used for research that will result in development of higher-yielding bean and peas that will have improved quality and stress resistance.
Importance: Continued success of the U.S. edible legume industries that produce safe and high quality food for U.S. consumers is contingent upon continued research and state-of-the-art genetic resources provided by Agricultural Research Service toward the beans, peas and other products best suited for growing markets.
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Project Title: Enhancing Wheat Quality, Competitiveness, Security and Sustainability
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $1,050,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used for research to enhance the quality of wheat, including expanded testing, breeding line evaluation, and development of additional marketable varieties.
Importance: This research will help reduce the costs of wheat diseases, increase product quality, make U.S. producers more competitive in the global marketplace and result in cost savings to the consumer.
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Project Title: Organic Cropping (WA)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $500,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to research nutrient, soil, pest, and seed management for sustainable organic agriculture and permit small farmers facing economic pressure to take advantage of research being performed.
Importance: Research on organic farming will allow farmers to make their operations more environmentally-friendly, safer, and their products more marketable, particularly small farmers unable to perform their own research on organic growing methods.
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Project Title: Food Security (WA)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $400,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used to increase Washington State University’s research capacity for creating value-added foods, fibers, and other bioproducts, while maintaining safety and security.
Importance: These funds will ensure that citizens of Washington and the nation have a safe and sustainable food supply while creating new products and technologies that will develop into robust industries, providing economic opportunity and food system security to Washington and the nation.
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Project Title: Forage Crop Disease Genetic Research
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $700,000
Location: Prosser, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used for research to identify genetic markers for virus resistance in alfalfa, beans and pulse crops, which are susceptible to soil-borne viruses.
Importance: This funding will enhance the critical research services to forage crops, which are a major contributor to Washington’s agriculture sector, and reduce the rate of diseases to these plants that result in losses to American agriculture that can exceed $1 billion annually.
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Project Title: Grass Seed Cropping Systems for Sustainable Agriculture (ID, OR, WA)
Recipient: Washington State University/University of Idaho/Oregon State University
Amount: $500,000
Location: Pullman, WA/Moscow, ID/Corvallis, OR
Purpose: This funding will be used for research on critical environmental and economic challenges facing the cool season forage and turfgrass industries, and will focus on developing sustainable production systems.
Importance: This research will assist producers of cool season forage and turfgrass, over 90 percent of which is produced in the Pacific Northwest.
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Project Title: Kettle Falls Water Treatment Facilities
Recipient: City of Kettle Falls
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Kettle Falls, Washington
Purpose: The goal is the completion of a facility that will provide wastewater treatment for the people of Kettle Falls.
Importance: This needed treatment plant will provide water to residents and prevent environmental contamination due to continued use of an aging wastewater plant.
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Project Title: Minor Use Pesticides (IR-4)
Recipient: USDA-ARS (Wapato, Washington)
Amount: $110,000
Location: Nationwide and Wapato, Washington
Purpose: The goal of this program is to review and test of chemicals to produce safer pesticides targeted at smaller crops like hops, cucumbers, or mint for which major companies do not have incentives to review and test effective pesticides.
Importance: This research will help producers of smaller crops safely treat their products for pests and disease and bring higher quality products to market.
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Project Title: Minor Use Pesticides (IR-4)
Recipient: USDA-ARS (Prosser, Washington)
Amount: $38,000
Location: Nationwide and Prosser, Washington
Purpose: The goal of this program is to review and test of chemicals to produce safer pesticides targeted at smaller crops like hops, cucumbers, or mint for which major companies do not have incentives to review and test effective pesticides.
Importance: This research will help producers of smaller crops safely treat their products for pests and disease and bring higher quality products to market.
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Project Title: National University Agricultural and Rural Transportation Research and Education Program
Recipient: Consortium for Agricultural and Rural Transportation Research and Education, consisting of North Dakota State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Iowa State University, Texas A&M University, University of Kentucky, and Washington State University.
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: The goal is to help direct needed research efforts toward the logistical problems of agricultural producers and rural residents through effective research at six regional centers of excellence.
Importance: This research will help solve the transportation needs of rural residents whose travel needs have not been adequately studied and farmers who must get food to market in a timely manner and enhance agricultural competitiveness.
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Project Title: Northwest Center for Small Fruits Research
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $254,000
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Purpose: The Center performs research into the needs of small fruits crop producers in the Pacific Northwest in coordination with federal and university researchers.
Importance: Through partnership with industry and university researchers and funds, this research keeps production of berries, grapes and wine a growing, employing and highly productive industry in the Pacific Northwest.
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Project Title: Northwest Sustainable Biofuel Production Research
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $500,000
Location: Prosser, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used to develop production recommendations for increased production of biofuels appropriate to the Pacific Northwest.
Importance: This research will help determine what crops are appropriate to be used in the Pacific Northwest to ensure that biofuels production is sustainable for growers, which could provide an additional avenue of profitability, thereby benefiting rural economies.
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Project Title: Perennial Wheat (WA)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $150,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used for research to develop perennial wheat into a viable part of small grains cropping system, and mitigating effects of soil erosion.
Importance: Developing perennial wheat as an option for Pacific Northwest growers would ensure agricultural sustainability by reducing soil erosion, increasing resistance to pests and diseases, providing wildlife habitat and providing new value-added products such as straw.
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Project Title: PM-10 Study (WA)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $270,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used to address wind erosion by predicting and measuring dust emissions from agricultural soils and assist farmers in adopting best management practices for wind erosion control.
Importance: Many urban areas in the Columbia Plateau have experienced concentrations of these particulates exceeding federal standards in part due to erosion generated from agricultural fields. This research will help address this agriculture and health issue in a scientifically appropriate manner.
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Project Title: Potato Research
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used for research that will develop and commercialize new potato varieties that will result in improved product quality, increased yields and a decrease in input requirements.
Importance: Potatoes are a valuable portion of the Pacific Northwest agricultural economy, with a farm gate value of $135 million. This research will result in sustainable production for growers, increased competitiveness for the Northwest and U.S. potato industries, and a healthy food product for American consumers.
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Project Title: Potato Research – Disease Resistance and Nutritional Enhancement
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $1,050,000
Location: Prosser, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used to expand research on potatoes which will result in greater pest and disease resistance, superior processing characteristics and yields, and higher amounts of vitamins and nutrients.
Importance: This research will ensure continued industry sustainability and profitability while providing heartier products that are less vulnerable.
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Project Title: Regional Barley Gene Mapping Project (OR)
Recipient: Oregon State University
Amount: $700,000
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Purpose: The funding will be used for research to complete understanding of the gene networks that determine important traits in barley, such as resistance to drought, diseases, insects and pests.
Importance: This research will help keep barley as a crop option for growers, and will maintain and enhance value-added job-generating enterprises including livestock, malting, brewing, food and ethanol production in the U.S., making Northwest grain growers able to provide the best products to market.
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Project Title: Regional Small Grains Molecular Genotyping Laboratory
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $750,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to facilitate application of genomic information and DNA molecular marker technologies that will result in improvement and breeding of wheat, barley and oats.
Importance: Providing the biotechnology tools to enhance end use quality and resistance to production risks will benefit the wheat, barley and oat industries, enhance a strong grain-based economy in Washington, the Pacific Northwest and throughout the U.S., and give consumers the highest-quality products available.
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Project Title: Small Fruits Research (OR, ID, WA)
Recipient: Oregon State University
Amount: $500,000
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Purpose: The Center provides competitive grant funds for peer reviewed research into plant diseases of small fruits crops caused by infectious diseases and environmental conditions.
Importance: In partnership with industry funds, this work will enhance berry and grape product quality related to marketability, thereby ensuring that growers remain competitive in the global marketplace, and allowing berry, grape and small fruit farming to remain viable in the Pacific Northwest.
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Project Title: STEEP – Water Quality in the Northwest
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used for research efforts to adopt conservation systems to reduce soil erosion, enhance water quality and maximize soil quality.
Importance: This multi-disciplinary, multi-stage approach to problem solving allows growers to be highly involved in setting priorities and goals for a program to prevent soil erosion in the Pacific Northwest, which has a large proportion of agriculture in hilly and erosion-prone areas that must be managed well to remain highly productive.
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Project Title: Willapa Regional Wastewater Facility
Recipient: Cities of Raymond, South Bend, and Pacific County
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Pacific County, Washington
Purpose: The goal is the completion of a facility that will provide wastewater treatment for the people of rural Pacific County.
Importance: This needed treatment plant will provide water to residents of rural Pacific County, allow economic development, and avoid discharge of wastewater and pollutants into the shellfish-growing area of Willapa Bay that produces a large percentage of American oysters and other shellfish.
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Project Title: Winter Grain Legume Breeding Program
Recipient: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Amount: $325,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used for research to improve the quality and marketability of dry peas, lentils and chickpeas.
Importance: With a farm gate value of approximately $300,000,000, the legume industry provides our rural economies with stable jobs and breeding high quality fall-planted legumes promotes farming high-nutrition foods in cold-weather regions of the United States and worldwide.
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Project Title: Virus-Free Wine Grape Cultivars/Wine Grape Foundation Block (WA)
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $325,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will be used for research to ensure virus-free vineyards and develop a virus-free foundation block of plant material that will be accessible to growers.
Importance: Viruses can quickly wipe out an entire vineyard, requiring costly replacement of plant material. This research will reduce the likelihood of virus transmission within the industry, provide growers with clean plant material, and create a base for long-term growth of the industry.
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Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies
Project Title: Battle Ground School Resource Officers
Recipient: City of Battle Ground, WA
Amount: $200,000
Location: Battle Ground, WA
Purpose: Federal funds will be used to support additional School Resource Officers in Battle Ground, WA.
Importance: Battle Ground’s School Resource Officers have dealt proactively with issues such as bullying, harassment, assaults, gangs, and weapons on campus, making it possible to control these issues at their initial stages before they put students and staff at greater risk, increasing safety on school campuses and reducing crime.
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Project Title: Crystal Judson Family Justice Center
Recipient: Crystal Judson Family Justice Center
Amount: $600,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding will support critical social services to victims of domestic violence and their children by providing for legal staff, a support group for victims and their children, and a program manager to recruit and train volunteers.
Importance: The Crystal Judson Family Justice Center is a state-wide asset that provides unique, and critically-needed services. This funding will help provide counseling and legal services to over 2,000 survivors of domestic violence and 500 children who use the Center annually.
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Project Title: King County Sheriff's Office Gang Intervention Initiative
Recipient: King County Sheriff’s Office
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide for additional gang analysts and detectives as well as facilitate an overarching initiative that combines law enforcement with community organizations to address the challenge of gangs and juvenile delinquency in King County.
Importance: In order to address the rise in criminal gang activity, gang analysts and detectives are needed to build collaborative partnerships with federal, state, and local agencies to effectively target juvenile gang crime and prevent delinquency. This funding will help prevent greater levels of crime in our communities and save costs that are spent to capture, prosecute and detain criminals in our communities.
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Project Title: King County Sheriff's Office School Resource Officers Program
Recipient: King County Sheriff’s Office
Amount: $550,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will support additional School Resource Officers in King County schools.
Importance: School Resource Officers play an important role in creating safe school environments and preventing criminal activity. Anti-bullying education, gang prevention and intervention, and internet safety and cyber crime education are successfully taught through the School Resource Officer program and prevent crime in our communities. This funding will help reduce crime and save costs that are associated with capturing, prosecuting and detaining criminals in our communities.
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Project Title: King County Superior Court Criminal Tracking System
Recipient: King County, WA
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding supports a pilot project to develop a single information system that would provide comprehensive data sharing among criminal justice agencies and courts in King County.
Importance: This funding would support a pilot project that would be the first comprehensive data system of its kind in King County courts. This new system will provide the technological infrastructure to track individuals moving through the criminal justice system and improve the quality of data sharing between courts and law enforcement agencies, creating new efficiencies and allowing greater information to law enforcement.
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Project Title: Kirkland Emergency Services Equipment
Recipient: City of Kirkland, WA
Amount: $500,000
Location: Kirkland, WA
Purpose: This funding provides Kirkland with additional emergency equipment in order to address local needs in the event of a disaster or threat.
Importance: East King County and south Snohomish County regions are subject to earthquakes, windstorms, and major flooding events, and this funding will provide first responders with equipment to respond better to emergency situations to enhance the safety of residents in the region.
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Project Title: Lacey Records Management System
Recipient: City of Lacey, WA
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Lacey, WA
Purpose: This funding will help pay for a new criminal records management system in Thurston County, WA to replace the outdated system. The City of Lacey is the lead agency in coordination with other cities in Thurston County.
Importance: A new records management system will allow Thurston County law enforcement officers to exchange crime data and increase interoperability between regional partners. The current system is antiquated and cannot be upgraded because the vendor does not support the old software. Funding will help law enforcement access information and enhance their ability to respond to emergency situations.
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Project Title: Longview Regional 911 Center Dispatch Improvements
Recipient: City of Longview, WA
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Longview, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide for a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system to replace the outdated equipment currently used by the Longview Regional 911 Center.
Importance: This funding for a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system will enable law enforcement agencies in the Cowlitz County region to deploy personnel in a more effective manner, share information more effectively with other jurisdictions, and improve public safety efforts. The current system is antiquated and is not interoperable with other systems in the region.
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Project Title: Makah 911 Public Safety Complex
Recipient: Makah Tribal Council
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Neah Bay, WA
Purpose: This funding will help construct a new 911 Public Safety Complex on the Makah Indian Reservation.
Importance: Funding for the Makah 911 Public Safety Complex will help house the Police Department, Fire Department, Emergency Medical Services, Dispatch Center, Emergency Management and Corrections Facilities for the Makah Tribe, replacing the outdated jail facility currently located on a flood and tsunami zone. This will allow the Makah Tribe to better provide safety services in the region.
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Project Title: NOAA West Coast Doppler Radar
Recipient: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Amount: $7,000,000
Location: Silver Spring, MD (radar station to be located in Washington State)
Purpose: This funding will complete the purchase of a Doppler Radar system for Southwest Washington and provide for the land and installation costs associated with the system.
Importance: Washington State suffers from the worst coastal radar system in the continental United States and this lack of coverage threatens lives and property in Southwest Washington. The placement of a Doppler Radar will provide more accurate and timely weather coverage to address this need.
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Project Title: Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative
Recipient: Northwest Straits Commission
Amount: $1,800,000
Location: Mt. Vernon, Washington
Purpose: This funding would be used by the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative to continue protecting and restoring the vital marine resources of northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca through its unique, citizen-driven, “bottom-up” approach.
Importance: In addition to helping support local jobs at each of the seven county-based Marine Resources Committees and field-based restoration jobs, this funding will support Puget Sound fisheries and the overall ecosystem health of the region.
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Project Title: Olive Crest Northwest - Push to Permanence
Recipient: Olive Crest Northwest
Amount: $750,000
Location: Bellevue, WA
Purpose: This funding provides crucial social services to the many children and families in the child welfare system in Washington state.
Importance: By focusing on the re-unification of families, providing youth with successful living skills, and helping to achieve child welfare diversion, this initiative provides important social services to children and families while helping to reduce the burden on Washington’s foster care system. This funding will help provide a stronger safety net for the most vulnerable people in our communities, which also helps break the cycle of violence that often leads to higher crime and increased costs in our state.
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Project Title: National Methamphetamine Training and Technical Assistance Center
Recipient: Pierce County Alliance
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding supports the creation of national programming and training materials for the National Methamphetamine Training and Technical Assistance Center.
Importance: This funding will support the National Meth Center and enhance its ability to be the national resource and clearinghouse for law enforcement, treatment professionals and educators to strategically collaborate on the treatment and prevention of methamphetamine abuse. Organized and implemented over the last two years, the National Meth Center promotes local and state intervention strategies that can be used as national program models and helps communities prevent the use and production of methamphetamines.
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Project Title: Washington State Methamphetamine Initiative
Recipient: Pierce County Alliance
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding will improve enforcement, abate the illicit production of methamphetamine, and provide prevention, treatment, and training resources to communities working to curb methamphetamine use and production across the state.
Importance: Since its inception, the Washington State Methamphetamine Initiative (WSMI) has successfully reduced the number of illicit meth labs and dump site discoveries in Washington State and helped reduce the use of meth. Future funding ensures that WSMI can continue this successful reduction strategy and keep more people off of this devastating drug.
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Project Title: Pierce County Sheriff's Office Interoperable Communications Improvements
Recipient: Pierce County Sheriff’s Office
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding will help fund infrastructure improvements to the Sheriff’s Department’s communications system.
Importance: This project will increase public safety by allowing the Sheriff’s Department to communicate better with other jurisdictions in the Puget Sound, increasing coordination among law enforcement partners and allowing quicker and better responses to emergencies.
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Project Title: Pierce County Regional Gang Prevention Partnership
Recipient: Safe Streets Campaign
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding allows for the continuance of a broad-based coalition consisting of local and regional prevention specialists, law enforcement, prosecutors, schools, and health and community-based organizations to prevent gang involvement in Pierce County, WA.
Importance: By focusing on the importance of a collaborative, community-based gang prevention model, this funding provides at-risk youth with the skills, alternative opportunities, and social rewards necessary to reduce regional gang violence.
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Project Title: Seattle Police Forensics and Digital Imaging Infrastructure Upgrade
Recipient: City of Seattle, WA
Amount: $250,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will set in place a digital imaging and communication network infrastructure that will support criminal and terrorist investigations, prosecutions, and provide for a regional interoperable digital imaging acquisition and distribution network.
Importance: The current Seattle Police network is outdated and impedes the admissibility of digital image evidence into court. A new system will help facilitate adequate security and support for major critical incidents as well as provide the tools necessary for proper image capture and digital security.
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Project Title: Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative
Recipient: City of Seattle, WA
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will support crime reduction projects in three Seattle neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of youth violence. This funding will create community-led networks to provide outreach, youth employment and apprenticeships, and recreational opportunities to high risk youth as well as fund community school police officers and emphasis patrols. A Web-based tool will be used to track youth participation and success in programs intended to reduce their likelihood to commit violence.
Importance: This collaborative effort between communities and law enforcement officials will improve the safety of Seattle neighborhoods and increase the likelihood that high risk youth will finish school, engage in positive activities, and become contributing members of their communities.
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Project Title: Vancouver Records Management System
Recipient: City of Vancouver, WA
Amount: $500,000
Location: Vancouver, WA
Purpose: This funding will help pay for a new criminal records management system in Vancouver, Washington and Clark County, Washington to replace the current antiquated system.
Importance: This funding will help law enforcement officers in Southwest Washington be able to share information and use crime mapping technology to better collaborate and protect communities. In addition, the online system will allow citizens to file reports online and check the status of existing cases, promoting efficiency and significantly reducing overhead costs.
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Project Title: WASPC Public Safety Mapping System
Recipient: Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Lacey, WA
Purpose: This funding will install a school mapping program at all twenty four-year colleges and university campuses in Washington state.
Importance: This funding will complete the mapping of university campus facilities in Washington state to support local law enforcement and first responders in their efforts to react quickly to disasters and public safety threats, such as university school shootings.
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Project Title: Washington State Mentors
Recipient: Washington State Mentors
Amount: $300,000
Location: Issaquah, WA
Purpose: This funding provides for grants as well as training and technical assistance to direct-service mentoring organizations in Washington State.
Importance: These funds will be used to provide mentors to hundreds of at-risk youth through the Washington State Mentors program by providing the financial and technical support to mentoring organizations across the State.
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Project Title: Washington State University Methamphetamine Research
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $500,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding will support Washington State University’s research into the treatment and prevention of methamphetamine and prescription drug abuse.
Importance: The Washington State University Program of Excellence in the Addictions is a leading research program that can be leveraged to further the science and understanding of drug abuse. By enhancing its efforts to understand the science behind drug addiction, this program will help reduce the abuse of methamphetamines and prescription drugs.
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Project Title: Whatcom County 2010 Olympics Costs
Recipient: Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office
Amount: $150,000
Location: Bellingham, WA
Purpose: This funding will help pay for increased law enforcement costs associated with the influx of visitors in the area travelling to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada.
Importance: Based on the proximity of the 2010 Olympic Games to the Washington border, law enforcement officials will be required to work overtime to provide the additional patrol shifts, staffing, and special units necessary to ensure that security needs are met. Additionally, the 2010 Olympics Coordination Center, located in Bellingham, WA, will require additional staffing to facilitate these coordination efforts.
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Project Title: Whatcom County Multi-Jurisdictional Data Integration
Recipient: Whatcom County, WA
Amount: $350,000
Location: Bellingham, WA
Purpose: This third phase funding allows for the Whatcom Exchange Network (WENET) to integrate its data system with U.S. and Canadian border authorities, Alaska Law Enforcement Information Sharing System (ALEISS), Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LINX) Northwest, State Regional and Federal Enterprise Retrieval System (SRFERS) and Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) on the I-5 corridor.
Importance: WENET tracks criminal offenders from the moment they enter the criminal justice system until they are re-integrated back into the community and beyond, allowing for local, regional, and federal authorities to collaborate effectively to monitor and reduce criminal activity.
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Project Title: Whatcom County Rapid Border Prosecution Initiative
Recipient: Whatcom County, WA
Amount: $500,000
Location: Bellingham, WA
Purpose: This funding will assist Whatcom County in paying for border-related criminal prosecutions through its “fast track” prosecution, including border “bounce back” crimes.
Importance: Whatcom County prosecutes a disproportionately high number of crimes that occur because of its location on the border. These funds help defray some of these local costs for apprehending dangerous criminals and preventing important homeland security cases from falling through the cracks.
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Project Title: Yakima County Integrated Public Safety System
Recipient: Yakima County, WA
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Yakima, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide for an integrated public safety data communications and records system in Yakima County.
Importance: This project will improve the interoperability, security and data sharing between the 115 local, state, tribal and federal agencies in Yakima County.
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Project Title: Yakima County Gang Elimination Initiative
Recipient: Yakima County, WA
Amount: $750,000
Location: Yakima, WA
Purpose: This funding supports a comprehensive initiative to assist the Yakima communities most affected by youth gang crime.
Importance: The increase in violent gang activity has had a marked effect on Yakima County communities and schools. Federal funding will support the implementation of a comprehensive gang elimination model that uses prevention, suppression and intervention to reduce crime and build safer communities.
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Defense
Project Title: 2.0kW Stirling Tactical Cogeneration System (STaCS)
Recipient: Infinia Corporation
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Kennewick, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to develop a small, low maintenance engine for the Army that uses solar power to simultaneously produce hot water and electricity for troops in the field.
Importance: In addition to supporting jobs in central Washington, this would improve field conditions and safety for warfighters by allowing them to generate hot water and electricity more reliably, efficiently and quietly.
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Project Title: 2010 Washington Military Department Domestic Operations Response
Equipment Request
Recipient: Washington Military Department
Amount: $2,300,000
Location: Camp Murray, WA
Purpose: This funding would purchase a command and control vehicle and a field shelter with secure communications for the Washington National Guard.
Importance: This would improve the Washington National Guard’s ability to respond to natural or manmade disasters and fulfill its mission to protect lives and property in Washington state.
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Project Title: Advanced Fiber Lasers Systems and Components
Recipient: nLight
Amount: $4,500,000
Location: Vancouver, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to improve the Air Force’s eye-safe laser capabilities by developing advanced fiber laser technology.
Importance: In addition to supporting engineering jobs in Clark County, WA, this would improve military laser technology used to counter roadside bombs and other threats to the warfighter.
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Project Title: Advanced Ground Electronics Warfare & Signals Intelligence System
Recipient: Agilent Technologies
Amount: $7,000,000
Location: Everett, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop an advanced electronic jamming device for the Army to detect and neutralize a wide spectrum of threats.
Importance: This would help keep soldiers safe in a time of war by allowing them to counter roadside bombs and other electronic threats more effectively.
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Project Title: Advanced Night Vision System – Cockpit Integration
Recipient: Korry Electronics
Amount: $1,750,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would use dye chemistry and plastic filter technology to develop and prototype the next generation of night vision goggles for Air Force pilots.
Importance: This funding would advance night vision technology, help the U.S. regain its night vision dominance, and ultimately increase the safety and effectiveness of U.S. pilots.
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Project Title: Autonomous Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Delivery and
Communication (AUDAC) System Integration
Recipient: Science Applications International Corporation
Amount: $4,500,000
Location: Lynnwood, WA
Purpose: This funding would build on earlier design and development to demonstrate an unmanned Navy submersible. This submersible would carry and deploy small, information-collecting drones.
Importance: This would allow the Navy to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance missions in hostile waters while minimizing the danger to American sailors.
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Project Title: Center for Design of Analog-Digital IntegratedCircuits (CDADIC)
Recipient: Washington State University (WSU)
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would further advanced analog-digital research to support Air Force communications technology and provide important science and technology training to college students.
Importance: In addition to educating the future workforce, this funding would expand research into nanoscale electronics technology for the U.S. military.
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Project Title: Corrosion Detection and Visualization
Recipient: Quest Integrated
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Kent, WA
Purpose: This funding would use magneto-optic imaging technology to detect hard-to-access corrosion on Air Force fighter planes.
Importance: This funding would allow quicker and more effective maintenance on aging fighter planes, lowering costs and improving pilot safety.
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Project Title: Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies Vulnerabilities Assessment
Program (CIIVA)
Recipient: Washington Military Department
Amount: $3,510,000
Location: McChord Air Force Base, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the Washington Air National Guard to assess and detect cyber threats to state, federal and military critical infrastructure, which includes power, water, communications, sewer and emergency services.
Importance: This would help protect the people and economy of the United States from cyber threats and ensure that essential services remain functional in the event of a cyber attack.
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Project Title: Dedicated Breast MRI System for Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort
Lewis
Recipient: Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc.
Amount: $3,565,000
Location: Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, WA
Purpose: This funding would purchase a state-of-the-art MRI system specifically designed for breast cancer screening for Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis.
Importance: This would provide a life-saving health service for female servicemembers, dependents and retirees at Fort Lewis, McChord Air Force Base and the surrounding area, which has one of the largest concentrations of military health care beneficiaries in the nation.
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Project Title: Department of Defense Impact Aid
Recipient: Military Impacted Schools District
Amount: $50,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This funding would provide assistance to public schools districts in Washington state and across the nation affected by high enrollment rates of military school children.
Importance: In addition to injecting needed federal assistance into school districts and communities countrywide, this would support military readiness and retention by contributing to the high-quality education of military school children.
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Project Title: Electronic Warfare Technology, Doctrine and Tactics Development
Recipient: Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc.
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Oak Harbor, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the Navy to develop sophisticated procedures and tactics for electronic warfare, with a focus on the new Growler electronic attack aircraft.
Importance: This would improve electronic warfare skills and help the U.S. military maintain its competitive edge in a critical branch of modern warfare.
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Project Title: Epigenetic Disease Research
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army to better understand how genetic and environmental factors interact to affect the health and well-being of soldiers.
Importance: This would help the military to identify what makes military personnel ill or unhealthy, and to minimize environmental conditions which worsen preexisting problems.
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Project Title: Expeditionary Swimmer Defense System (XSDS)
Recipient: Sound and Sea Technologies
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Lynnwood, WA
Purpose: This funding would use physical barriers and sensor systems to protect Navy ships against maritime threats while in port.
Importance: In addition to supporting jobs in Snohomish County, this funding would address a top priority of the U.S. Navy by improving security for Navy vessels and keeping American sailors safe in ports around the globe.
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Project Title: Force Protection Radar for Forward Operating Bases
Recipient: Trident Systems Incorporated
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop and deploy a portable, rugged radar system for the Army to identify perimeter threats despite obscured weather conditions or dense foliage at combat bases.
Importance: This valuable perimeter security tool would protect U.S. troops deployed at small bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Project Title: Fuel Cell Hybrid Generation System Utilizing Shockwave Compression
Technology
Recipient: Ramgen Power Systems
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Bellevue, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop and test a highly efficient, reliable electrical power generator for the Army using advanced fuel cell and shockwave technology.
Importance: This would advance research into a state-of-the-art hybrid turbine which would provide more energy at less cost for the military and the taxpayer.
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Project Title: Global Unmanned Aircraft System Networking and Interoperability
System (GUNIS)
Recipient: CoCo Communications Corp.
Amount: $4,500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop a communications system for the Marine Corps to allow the more reliable, secure and efficient transfer of digitized information.
Importance: This funding would enhance combat situational awareness, allowing battlefield commanders to utilize information more effectively and making military operations safer and more efficient.
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Project Title: Health Surveillance System
Recipient: CombiMatrix Corp.
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Mukilteo, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop a health surveillance system for the Army, which uses this advanced technology for early detection of disease or exposure to biohazards. It is designed to identify changes in body chemistry and function for timely medical intervention.
Importance: This would support cutting-edge research and development to improve health care for servicemembers and lower the long term cost of care.
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Project Title: Hearing Restoration Through Cellular Regeneration and Protection
Recipient: Sound Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SPI)
Amount: $3,500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would advance the drug development process for regenerative medicine to treat Navy Sailors affected by hearing loss and tinnitus.
Importance: This would use innovative science to address hearing loss, one of the most common and costly injuries affecting servicemembers returning home from war.
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Project Title: Hydroacoustic Monitoring for Marine Renewable Energy Systems in the
Puget Sound
Recipient: BioSonics, Inc.
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would use hydroacoustic monitoring to explore the environmental
impact of locating tidal power sites in Puget Sound for the Navy.
Importance: This would help the Navy meet its renewable energy requirement while protecting marine life in Puget Sound.
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Project Title: Improved Stealth and Lower Cost Operations for U.S. Naval Ships Using
High Strength Flame Resistant LCP Reinforced Netting
Recipient: Diamond Nets
Amount: $4,400,000
Location: Everson, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop and produce rugged, stealthy, lower cost deck-edge netting for Navy vessels.
Importance: In addition to supporting jobs in northwest Washington, this funding would improve Fleet Readiness, lower operational costs, and keep sailors safe while at sea.
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Project Title: Institute for Simulation and Inter-Professional Studies (ISIS)
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $6,380,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would enhance medical simulation technologies and expand health care skills training through a collaboration between Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, University of Washington and other regional Universities.
Importance: This would improve the quality of medical education for Army and civilian health care providers and thereby enhance health care and safety for servicemembers and civilians.
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Project Title: Intelligraf Training and Maintenance Aid for Above Water Sensors
Recipient: Dimension4, Inc.
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Bremerton, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow graphics improvements and maintenance upgrades on a radar system.
Importance: This would address aging components of a key radar system used on aircraft carriers, thereby lowering maintenance costs and improving radar availability for the Navy.
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Project Title: Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) Turbines
Recipient: Verdant Power
Amount: $4,500,000
Location: Lynnwood, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop and construct fish-friendly hydropower turbines in the Puget Sound to supply the Navy with clean renewable electricity.
Importance: This would help the Navy obtain affordable clean energy to meet its federal renewable energy requirements while protecting marine life in the Puget Sound.
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Project Title: Long-Range, Day and Night Covert Thermal Target Designator
Recipient: B.E. Meyers and Co.
Amount: $4,150,000
Location: Redmond, WA
Purpose: This would fund research and development for small, lightweight gun-mounted sights for the U.S. military to use with thermal imaging technology.
Importance: This would improve the ability of U.S. forces to identify adversaries at a distance when visibility is impaired, enabling servicemembers to carry out their missions more safely and effectively.
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Project Title: Madigan Army Medical Center Trauma Assistance Program
Recipient: Tacoma Trauma Trust (TTT)
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding would provide military medical personnel at Madigan Army Medical Center with critical trauma care experience in local hospitals and also expand trauma treatment for military beneficiaries and civilians in the region.
Importance: In addition to lowering the cost and improving the quality of health care for local residents, this would help deployed military doctors provide the best possible care to wounded warfighters.
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Project Title: Malaria Vaccine Development
Recipient: Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI)
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would further the development of a malaria vaccine for the Army.
Importance: This funding would further the development of a malaria vaccine for the Army. Exposure to malaria while deployed is a top concern of the U.S. military. The development of a vaccine would prevent infection, enhance operational readiness, lower health care costs, and keep servicemembers healthy when deployed to regions with a heightened risk of malaria infection.
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Project Title: Multi-Dose Closed-Loop pH Monitoring System for Platelets
Recipient: Blood Cell Storage Inc.
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would help the Army develop a capability to ensure the efficacy of platelets in large samples.
Importance: Platelets are necessary to stop blood loss from severe injuries. This project would help reduce battlefield deaths caused by transfusions of ineffective platelets.
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Project Title: National Guard CST/CBRNE Enhanced Response Force Package Sustainment Training and Evaluation Program (CST/CERFP STEP)
Recipient: Volpentest HAMMER Training and Education Center
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Richland, WA
Purpose: This funding would bring specialized National Guard teams from across the country to the Volpentest HAMMER Center in Richland, where they would receive critical hands-on training in responding to potential Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) incidents.
Importance: This would boost the National Guard’s WMD response capabilities, addressing the 2008 Commission on the National Guard and Reserve finding that the U.S. “does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available” for WMD incident response.
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Project Title: Navy Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) Logistics Modernization
Initiative
Recipient: Intermec Technologies Corporation
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Everett, WA
Purpose: This funding would modernize the Navy’s supply chain management using portable computer technology.
Importance: This would improve the Navy’s supply and logistics system, thereby lowering costs, increasing accountability, and improving the flow of goods and materials to the sailor.
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Project Title: Next Generation Solar Electric In-Space Propulsion
Recipient: Aerojet Redmond Operations
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Redmond, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop and prototype solar-powered electronics to control thrusters on Air Force satellites.
Importance: This would use cutting edge technology to reduce satellite weight and fuel consumption, allowing them to carry larger payloads at less cost to the taxpayer.
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Project Title: Northwest Manufacturing Initiative (NMI)
Recipient: Manufacturing 21 Coalition
Amount: $2,800,000
Location: Portland, OR
Purpose: This funding would support a coalition of over 100 private, non-profit and public entities in Oregon and Washington. The coalition works to support and expand the Northwest’s highly diverse manufacturing sector, in order to provide high quality, lower cost products for the Department of Defense.
Importance: In addition to providing valuable vocational training to the manufacturing workforce of southwest Washington, this would strengthen the manufacturing base regionally ensuring the Pacific Northwest meets the Department of Defense’s equipment needs.
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Project Title: Observations Systems for the 21st Century – Fixed Base System (OS-21
FBS)
Recipient: Coastal Environmental Systems
Amount: $6,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would purchase advanced weather stations to provide detailed data on weather and flying conditions at Air Force airfields.
Importance: This would meet an Air Force requirement by providing crucial information on weather and flying conditions to help keep airmen safe.
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Project Title: Obsolescence Management Information System (OMIS)
Recipient: Paladin Data Systems
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Poulsbo, WA
Purpose: This funding would begin the upgrade of the Navy’s electronic tracking system for weapons, equipment and replacement parts.
Importance: This would allow the Navy to extend the life of existing assets through improved logistics planning, making the military more efficient at replacing and maintaining valuable equipment.
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Project Title: On-Chip Integrated Photonic Polymer Transceiver
Recipient: Gigoptix
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Bothell, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop a cutting edge modulator for the Air Force capable of transmitting 200 gigabytes of data, which could decrease the size, weight, and energy usage of some of the military’s most critical technology systems.
Importance: This would continue important research to enable the production of faster, smaller, and more energy efficient power and communications systems to help the Air Force maintain its edge in the air.
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Project Title: Optical Neural Techniques for Combat/Post-Trauma Healthcare
Recipient: Lockheed Martin Aculight Corporation
Amount: $4,700,000
Location: Bothell, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop new laser stimulation technology for the army to address hearing loss, balance disorders and other medical conditions affecting soldiers.
Importance: This innovative approach towards hearing loss and other medical conditions would advance research to better care for soldiers returning from war.
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Project Title: Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program in the Defense Health
Program
Recipient: N/A
Amount: N/A
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This competitively granted funding would allow the U.S. military to research illnesses which affect both servicemembers and civilians alike.
Importance: This would improve the quality of health care for both servicemembers and civilians through expanded research into diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Breast Cancer and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
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Project Title: Portable Device for Latent Fingerprint Identification
Recipient: Sagem Morpho
Amount: $1,800,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding would design, develop and prototype a portable fingerprinting device for the U.S. military.
Importance: This would allow the military personnel to identify and capture hostile forces more quickly, accurately, and safely.
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Project Title: Portable Ultrasound Systems for Use by Deployed U.S. Marine Corps Medical Assets for Triaging and Providing Care for Wounded Servicemembers and Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq
Recipient: SonoSite, Inc.
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Bothell, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the Marine Corps to acquire sophisticated handheld ultrasound machines for use in the field.
Importance: This would improve battlefield diagnosis and treatment of wounded Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Project Title: Positron Capture and Storage
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would expand research for the Army into positrons, a new, non-nuclear energy source.
Importance: This would advance cutting edge research with potential applications in fields ranging from space travel to medical diagnostics.
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Project Title: Regenerative Medicine for Acute Deafness
Recipient: FATE Therapeutics
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would use advanced stem cell research and developmental biology to develop therapeutic treatments for acute hearing loss among Army soldiers.
Importance: This would advance safe and effective treatments for acute hearing loss, which affects many men and women of the Army on return home from war.
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Project Title: Roll Controlled Mortar Guidance Kit
Recipient: General Dynamics – OTS Seattle
Amount: $6,000,000
Location: Bothell, WA and Moses Lake, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop inexpensive technology to increase the accuracy of Army mortars.
Importance: In addition to creating engineering and manufacturing jobs in King County and Moses Lake, this funding would respond to the urgent operational needs of troops in the field and help them complete their missions more safely.
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Project Title: Scalable Open Architecture Upgradeable Reliable Computing
Environment (SOURCE)
Recipient: Progeny Systems Corporations
Amount: $4,300,000
Location: Gig Harbor, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop commercial-sourced hardware for critical IT systems on Navy submarines.
Importance: This would address the Number Six unfunded priority of the Chief of Naval Operations using cost-effective, reliable versions of commercial hardware.
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Project Title: The Biological and Chemical Warfare Online Repository of Technical
Holdings 2 System (BACWORTH2)
Recipient: Battelle Northwest
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Toppenish, WA
Purpose: This funding would provide access to comprehensive, detailed data on chemical and biological warfare to Department of Defense analysts.
Importance: This would allow military analysts to better understand threats posed to our country and its citizens by Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Project Title: Treatment of Battlefield Spinal Cord and Burn Injuries
Recipient: Oregon Biomedical Engineering Institute, Inc.
Amount: $4,500,000
Location: Portland, OR
Purpose: This funding would advance cutting edge biomedical research into therapies for severe burns and spinal paralysis for the Army.
Importance: This would address tragic medical conditions affecting soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Project Title: Ultra-High Resolution Display for Army Medicine (UHRDARM)
Recipient: eMagin
Amount: $5,200,000
Location: Bellevue, WA
Purpose: This funding would develop and prototype a high-resolution, low-weight head-mounted display to provide advanced simulation technology for Army medicine training.
Importance: This would help Army medics, doctors and other medical personnel train more realistically for complex medical scenarios.
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Project Title: U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) Modular Glove System
Recipient: Outdoor Research
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would provide Special Operations Forces (SOF) with advanced, adaptable gloves which function across a spectrum of weather conditions while preserving user dexterity and comfort.
Importance: In addition to supporting jobs in King County, this would help protect Special Operations personnel from extreme weather conditions and enhance their ability to carry out wartime missions.
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Project Title: Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center
Recipient: Washington Military Department
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Camp Murray, WA
Purpose: This funding would create a counterdrug prevention, detection, and interdiction training center at the Army National Guard installation at Camp Murray.
Importance: This world-class, multi-use training and education center would offer vital training to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement officers to provide them with the skills needed to protect communities in Washington state and across the nation from illegal narcotics trafficking and the threat of narcoterrorism.
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Project Title: Whidbey Flight Line Remote Sentry System
Recipient: Vigilos, Inc.
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Naval Air Station Whidbey, WA
Purpose: The funding would enable the Navy to use automated surveillance and control technology to enhance security at Naval Air Station Whidbey.
Importance: This would lower the cost and manpower burden of security at key facilities at Naval Air Station Whidbey.
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Energy and Water Development
Project Title: Algae Biofuels Research
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Pullman, Washington
Purpose: Washington State University would utilize this funding to develop a process to harvest algae biomass resources for the production of biofuel.
Importance: This project would explore the potential to diversify our country’s energy portfolio, slow global warming by decreasing carbon emissions, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil sources.
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Project Title: Baker Bay Channel Dredging at Ilwaco
Recipient: Portland District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $727,000
Location: Baker Bay, Pacific County, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would use these funds to dredge the channel to the Port of Ilwaco to the authorized depth to maintain safe navigation in and out of the port.
Importance: The Baker Bay Channel provides marina access for the US Coast Guard and the commercial, charter, and sport fishing industries which are vital to the economy of the City of Ilwaco and the region.
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Project Title: Centralia Flood Control
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corp of Engineers
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Lewis County, Washington
Purpose: The Centralia Flood Control investigation would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to continue a feasibility study for a project to reduce flooding in urban areas, including the cities of Centralia and Chehalis, and to reduce the risk of flooding to the I-5 corridor.
Importance: Significant flooding in 2007 and 2009 resulted in heavy damages to the urban and rural areas of the Chehalis Basin and closed the I-5 corridor for a total of six days. This project is needed to protect citizens, communities and the interstate from further flooding.
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Project Title: Chehalis River Basin
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $1,020,000
Location: Grays Harbor County, Washington
Purpose: Funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to continue studying measures to reduce flood risks and restore the ecosystem throughout the Chehlis River Basin.
Importance: Significant flooding in 2007 and 2009 caused heavy damages to urban and rural areas of the river basin. Local governments are considering sponsoring an expansion of the study to pursue basin-wide flood risk management.
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Project Title: Columbia River at Lower Willamette
Recipient: Portland District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $25,562,000
Location: Clark County, Washington and Multnomah County, Oregon
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain the federally-authorized depth of the federal navigation channel at the confluence of the Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers in order to allow for passage of ships traveling to ports in Washington and Oregon.
Importance: This project would allow for the continued transportation of the billions of dollars in imports and exports that are shipped up and down the Columbia River each year.
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Project Title: Columbia River between Chinook and Sand Island
Recipient: Portland District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $847,000
Location: Chinook, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would use this funding to dredge the federal navigation channel to the authorized depth, maintaining a safe navigation channel to the Port of Chinook
Importance: The one-mile channel from the port basin to the Columbia River needs to be dredged to ensure access to the commercial and recreational boats that rely on the Port of Chinook’s seafood processing facilities, stores, campgrounds, and boat-repair shops that are critical to the region’s economy.
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Project Title: Duwamish/Green River Ecosystem Restoration Program
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $2,600,000
Location: Duwamish/Green Watershed, King County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would provide critical habitat restoration improvements to help offset the significant loss of fish and wildlife habitat due in part to federally-constructed and -maintained projects.
Importance: This project would assist in the recovery of fish and wildlife species, including the Endangered Species Act federally-listed chinook salmon that are integral to the economic growth and well-being of the region.
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Project Title: Elliott Bay (Alaskan Way) Seawall Feasibility Study
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $1,400,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would utilize this funding to investigate and document damages to the infrastructure of the 75-year-old Elliot Bay Seawall.
Importance: The aging seawall provides protection to the city of Seattle and the public utility, telecommunications and transportation network along Elliot Bay. Failure of the seawall would disrupt these activities as well as rail operations along a significant national freight corridor.
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Project Title: Everett Riverfront Redevelopment District Wetland Enhancements
Recipient: City of Everett
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Everett, Washington
Purpose: This funding would be used by the Army Corps of Engineers to restore tidal connections between the wetlands and the Snohomish River and repair, extend, and enhance wetland and riverbank vegetation, all within a larger project to transform the city’s riverfront into a sustainable mixed-use community.
Importance: In addition to restoring wetland habitat critical to salmon restoration on the Snohomish River, this community enhancement project would generate significant job creation and economic development for the region.
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Project Title: Green River Levee Safety Assessment
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $500,000
Location: King County, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would utilize this funding to help determine the safety of levee segments along the Green River in King County, which will allow for further efforts to fix and repair the unsafe levee segments.
Importance: In addition to ensuring flood protection to vulnerable residential areas, the Green River Levees, this funding would also provide research into critical flood control for the region’s commercial and industrial industries. If any segment of this levee system were to be breached, the costs to the local, regional, and state economy would be significant.
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Project Title: Lake Washington Ship Canal
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corp of Engineers
Amount: $11,000,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to provide critical structural, electrical, and mechanical updates to the Lake Washington Ship Canal navigation lock.
Importance: Annually, over 1.5 million tons of cargo and about 50,000 vessels pass through the locks, making Lake Washington Ship Canal the busiest navigation lock in the United States. This project is critical to maintaining the economic vitality of the Pacific Northwest and will aid in salmon restoration through the canal’s fish ladder.
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Project Title: Levee Reconfiguration and Floodplain Restoration of the Yakima River Gap to Gap Reach
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $300,000
Location: Yakima County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to study options for levee-setback and floodplain restoration adjacent to the Cities of Yakima and Union Gap.
Importance: This project would produce positive impacts on flood hazard reduction and safety, improve habitat function for threatened and endangered species, and has the potential for increasing economic opportunities and job creation.
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Project Title: Lower Monumental Lock and Dam
Recipient: Walla Walla District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $16,735,000
Location: Walla Walla and Franklin Counties, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to design, construct, and install a new downstream lock gate to replace Lower Monumental Lock and Dam’s current failing gate.
Importance: This project is critical to the continued movement of the over 2.8 million tons of cargo valued at $750 million that travels on the Columbia Snake River System annually. The failure of this lock would cut off shipments of imports and exports and poses a high risk to salmon recovery efforts in the region.
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Project Title: Marine Energy Technology
Recipient: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Sequim, WA
Purpose: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory would utilize this funding to examine the feasibility of harnessing renewable marine energy resources, particularly ocean waves, tidal systems, near-shore wind, and evaluate potential environmental impacts.
Importance: This project would help to evaluate the potential of power sources that are predictable, reliable and would help to diversify the country’s energy portfolio.
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Project Title: Mt St Helens Sediment Control
Recipient: Portland District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $4,000,000
Location: Cowlitz County, Washington
Purpose: The Army Corps of Engineers would use this funding to continue monitoring and analysis of sediment resulting from the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens and to continue analysis of levee modification and dredging for a long-term solution.
Importance: Sediment and debris runoff from the Mt St Helens eruption continues to flow downstream which causes potential flooding concerns and navigation problems for the economically-important recreational watercraft that utilize the Cowlitz and Toutle Rivers.
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Project Title: Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center
Recipient: University of Washington, Oregon State University
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Seattle, Washington and Corvallis, Oregon
Purpose: Using this funding, the University of Washington and its partners would continue research on tidal energy, which has the potential to be a carbon-neutral power source.
Importance: This project would help to determine the potential of a power source that could be predictable and reliable and help to diversify the country’s energy portfolio.
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Project Title: Odessa Subarea Special Study
Recipient: US Bureau of Reclamation
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Columbia River Basin, Washington
Purpose: This funding would be used by the US Bureau of Reclamation to continue a feasibility study that will result in options for utilizing surface water resources for use in agricultural irrigation in place of deep wells, which deplete the underlying aquifer.
Importance: In addition to avoiding ecological ramifications by preserving aquifer resources, this project will support the region’s irrigated crops and in turn, the thousands of jobs throughout the region generated by the agricultural industry.
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Project Title: Power Grid Reliability and Security
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Pullman, Washington
Purpose: Washington State University would utilize this funding to create solutions to improve the existing power grid system, which is vulnerable to natural and man-made interruptions and inadequate to bring online the renewable resources of tomorrow.
Importance: This project would result in increased reliability and security of the nation’s power grid and the ability to integrate renewable resources, like wind or solar.
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Project Title: Processed Biowaste Fuel Research
Recipient: Central Washington University
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Ellensburg, Washington
Purpose: Central Washington University would use this funding to research the potential of using biowaste as a carbon-neutral fuel source.
Importance: In addition to being a carbon-neutral fuel source, successful biowaste fuel production can benefit agribusinesses, slow global warming, and lead to a reduced dependence on foreign oil. This project will help identify carbon-neutral fuel sources, while educating students in sustainability research practices and efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of college campuses.
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Project Title: Puyallup River
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $600,000
Location: Pierce County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would help the Army Corps of Engineers to determine alternatives for addressing the flood and habitat issues of the Puyallup River.
Importance: In addition to protecting the safety of local populations and minimizing damage to the area’s businesses and infrastructure, this funding would also protect several vital transportation corridors including Interstate 5 and two active rail lines that transport cargo and passengers across the region.
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Project Title: Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters Restoration Construction General Program
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Whatcom, Clallum, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Island, King, Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap, Mason, and Jefferson Counties, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to identify and construct critical ecosystem restoration projects on the locally- and federally-owned lands bordering the Puget Sound.
Location: In addition to restoring habitats for many threatened, endangered, or candidates for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act, this funding would invest in the natural assets that are important to the region’s the shipping, fishing & shellfish production, outdoor recreation and tourism industries.
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Project Title: Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $1,600,000
Location: Whatcom, Clallum, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, Island, King, Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap, Mason, and Jefferson Counties, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to identify, design and construct riparian habitat restoration sites in the nearshore, estuarine and marine areas of Puget Sound.
Importance: In addition to protecting public health, water quality and the aesthetics of the nearshore areas and supporting numerous threatened and endangered species, this funding would invest in the natural assets that are important to the region’s the shipping, fishing & shellfish production, outdoor recreation and tourism industries.
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Project Title: Shoalwater Bay Shoreline Erosion
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Pacific County, Washington
Purpose: This construction project will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood protection and severe coastal storm damage reduction to the Shoalwater Tribe’s reservation.
Importance: The Shoalwater Tribe’s reservation is experiencing an alarming rate of shoreline erosion which has caused flooding of tribal lands and facilities. This construction project will help protect the reservation and prevent further loss of tidal areas including shellfish beds which provide a major portion of the tribe’s livelihood.
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Project Title: Skagit River General Investigation Study
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $1,300,000
Location: Skagit County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to analyze possible flood control projects to protect citizens and infrastructure that would be impacted by a flood event on the Skagit River.
Importance: This project would investigate options to protect local commercial infrastructure, the sole north-south interstate and railroad corridor west of the Cascades, state and local roads, and fuel pipelines from Anacortes refineries to Seattle and SeaTac Airport from a major flood event.
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Project Title: Skokomish River Basin Flood Damage and Ecosystem Restoration
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $700,000
Location: Skokomish River Basin, Mason County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to examine flood control and ecosystem restoration options for the Skokomish River and would result in the development of a comprehensive watershed restoration plan.
Importance: In addition to creating a plan to prevent the significant and ongoing flooding that has threatened the region for decades, this project would allow for the restoration of critical fish and wildlife habitat.
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Project Title: Southwest Washington Tidal Energy Project
Recipient: Grays Harbor Public Utility District and Pacific County Public Utility District
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties, Washington
Purpose: Grays Harbor Public Utility District and Pacific County Public Utility District would use this funding to study the feasibility of a tidal power demonstration project.
Importance: Tidal power has the potential to lessen the country’s dependence on foreign oil by providing a carbon-neutral, predictable, domestic energy source.
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Project Title: Stillaguamish River Ecosystem Restoration
Recipient: Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $130,000
Location: Stillaguamish River Estuary, Snohomish County, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Army Corps of Engineers to craft plans for restoring tidal wetland and channel habitats by reintroducing natural processes such as normal tidal and river flows, sediment accretion and erosion, to the site through dike setback.
Importance: This project would help to reinstate the estuary habitat in Puget Sound marshes, mudflats and tidally-influenced channels to support hundreds of thousands of birds and several fish and wildlife species that are currently protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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Project Title: Walla Walla Watershed
Recipient: Walla Walla District, Army Corps of Engineers
Amount: $500,000
Location: Walla Walla and Columbia Counties, Washington and Umatilla, Wallowa, and Union Counties, Oregon
Purpose: Using this funding, the Army Corps of Engineers would focus on the restoration and management of a viable ecosystem in the Walla Walla River Basin by evaluating and recommending plans to boost biological resources and natural ecosystem functions and processes.
Importance: In addition to restoring instream flows for chinook salmon, steelhead trout, and other fish, this project would provide a stable water source that provides water for the region’s economically-important agriculture industry.
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Project Title: Washington State Biofuels Industry Development
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: The University of Washington would utilize this funding to create processes to convert biomass sources into transportation fuels.
Importance: This project would explore the potential to diversify our country’s energy portfolio, slow global warming by decreasing carbon emissions, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil sources.
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Project Title: Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project
Recipient: US Bureau of Reclamation
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Benton, Yakima, and Kittitas, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the US Bureau of Reclamation to continue their work with farmers, ranchers, local governments, and other stakeholders as well as the State of Washington to move toward solutions to the Basin’s storage needs.
Importance: This project would ensure continued forward movement to address water issues in the Yakima River Basin, where water shortages during the cyclical droughts pose an ongoing situation for farmers and fishermen. This work is important both to local farmers and conservationists.
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Project Title: Yttrium-90 Microspheres Research
Recipient: Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Kennewick, Washington
Purpose: The Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation would use this funding to research, develop, and test options for using yttrium-90, a chemical element, to treat brain, head, neck, and other soft tissue cancers.
Importance: Soft-tissue cancers are difficult to remove using traditional surgical or radiation cancer treatments. Isotopes similar to yttrium-90 have been shown to be effective in treating these hard-to-treat tumors, and further research and development may lead to more beneficial and lower-cost cancer treatments.
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Project Title: Tidal Energy Conversion
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: Using this funding, the University of Washington would conduct research on generating power from waves and tidal forces.
Importance: This research would help to determine the potential of a carbon-neutral, predictable power source that can help to diversify the country’s energy portfolio.
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Financial Services
Project Title: Asotin County Industrial Park Infrastructure Completion
Recipient: Port of Clarkston
Amount: $500,000
Location: Asotin County, WA
Purpose: This funding will assist the Port of Clarkston in building a 30-acre industrial park that will provide needed infrastructure for new and growing small manufacturing businesses to support the developing clean energy industry in the region.
Importance: The completion of the industrial park will allow businesses and manufacturers to provide crucial support for the growing renewable energy production in the region, creating over 200 new jobs in the first 3 years during and after completion.
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Project Title: Eastern Washington University, Accelerating Economic Development in Rural, Underserved Communities of the Inland Pacific Northwest – Phase II
Recipient: Eastern Washington University, Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis
Amount: $295,000
Location: Cheney, WA
Purpose: This funding will help provide economic analysis and establishes an accessible database for small business development in the rural communities of Ferry, Grant and Okanogan counties in Washington State and the Colville Federation of Tribes.
Importance: This funding will lay the groundwork for the future economic development and job creation in rural, underserved communities in eastern Washington State.
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Project Title: Inland Northwest Regional Partnership for Sustainable Development
Recipient: Spokane Area Workforce Development Council
Amount: $360,000
Location: Spokane, WA and 10 Counties of Greater Eastern Washington
Purpose: This funding would create and implement an integrated, regional workforce development plan that supports the long-term economic growth of small businesses and jobs in the clean energy and energy efficient technology industry in eastern Washington.
Importance: There currently is no dedicated consortium or partnership focused on clean energy and energy efficient technology development in Greater Eastern Washington. This project will create an infrastructure to produce a comprehensive plan that addresses business needs in this cluster, and deploys resources, including adjustments to the skills development and training system to address service gaps and help create jobs in this region. The information collected and developed for this industry cluster model will be made public for other regions to review and adapt to their own development planning needs.
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Project Title: MLK Business Center Project
Recipient: Martin Luther King Housing Development Association
Amount: $380,000
Location: Tacoma, WA
Purpose: This funding will assist in the construction of a mix-use business center to reclaim and revitalize one of Tacoma’s most important inner-city and underserved neighborhoods, the historic Hilltop Community by providing infrastructure support to existing and new small businesses.
Importance: Tacoma’s Hilltop Community has struggled economically, with limited opportunities for small businesses to grow and provide jobs and economic stability to the area. Construction on the Business Center and subsequent permanent jobs will generate $19 million in indirect economic impact and create approximately 300 jobs during the one-year construction phase. Additionally, as small businesses grow and develop utilizing the infrastructure and resources of the Business Center, over 400 permanent jobs will be created, producing approximately $18 million annually in salaries and several million in indirect impact.
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Project Title: Puget Sound Microenterprise Development Project
Recipient: Washington Community Alliance for Self-Help
Amount: $210,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide comprehensive economic development and small business support activities designed to address the economic needs of low-income individuals, families and distressed communities.
Importance: Many individuals are trapped in low-wage jobs that fail to provide them with the resources that they need to support themselves and their families, let alone to improve their economic situation. The need for microlending services is particularly significant in Washington, where approximately 26% of the population is considered “working poor” and struggling to live at 200% of the federal poverty threshold. The services provided by this project will create and sustain jobs within underserved communities in the Puget Sound region.
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Project Title: Sirti Technology Growth Fund
Recipient: Sirti Foundation
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding supports a revolving loan fund that compliments the region’s Community Economic Development Strategy plans by providing capital and debt financing for startup green technology businesses in eastern Washington.
Importance: The Technology Growth Fund is a proven program with demonstrated results creating and protecting high wage technology-based jobs. This investment, combined with private sector matching funds and dedicated expertise, will help small businesses expand into new markets and create new jobs in the region.
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Homeland Security
Project Title: Lincoln County Emergency Operations Center
Recipient: Lincoln County, WA
Amount: $1.8 million
Location: Sprague, WA
Purpose: This funding will support construction of an Emergency Operations Center in Sprague, Washington, to provide integrated fire and police emergency response in Lincoln County.
Importance: The Emergency Operations Center will enhance safety in Lincoln County and allow more reliable police and fire emergency response in a rural county larger than the state of Delaware along with an important section of the Interstate 90 corridor to which local resources frequently must respond for emergency calls.
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Project Title: Downtown Transit Tunnel Security Improvements
Recipient: King County, WA
Amount: $1.6 million
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would support the purchase and installation of a security system in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel to detect threats and allow rapid and effective emergency, fire and law enforcement response.
Importance: Acquiring detection technology to provide early warning is a prudent response to possible threats related to the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel that would harm transit riders, employees, and critical infrastructure in the heart of downtown Seattle.
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Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Project Title: City of Lacey Regional Reclaimed Water Project
Recipient: City of Lacey
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Lacey, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to construct the Woodland Creek Regional Reclaimed Water Facility, which would transport reclaimed water from the new Lacey satellite wastewater treatment plant to an infiltration site adjacent to Woodland Creek.
Importance: The project would utilize reclaimed water to stabilize stream flows, improve fish habitat and preserve access to drinking water for the region’s growing population.
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Project Title: City of Puyallup Wastewater Infrastructure Project
Recipient: City of Puyallup
Amount: $900,000
Location: Puyallup, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the city to add two new pumps and upgrade the force main at the city’s sanitary sewer pump station.
Importance: This project will increase public health and safety by ensuring reliability at the city’s largest sewer lift station, and would allow for future residential, commercial, and
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Project Title: City of Union Gap Water Transmission Main Project
Recipient: City of Union Gap
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Union Gap, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to replace old, deteriorated, and undersized water mains in Union Gap, WA.
Importance: These upgrades would ensure a stable water supply, correct fire flow capacity deficiencies, and allow the Valley Mall area to continue growing and expanding, thus bringing significant economic development to the area.
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Project Name: Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research
Recipient: Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc.
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This funding would support research through the Consortium, which supports biotechnology and renewable energy research, and the transfer of technologies from academic research to the marketplace.
Importance: The commercialization of academic research findings has the potential to improve the competitiveness of U.S. agriculture and forestry, and develop new renewable energy industries. The Consortium would have a direct impact on Washington state by creating jobs as products come to the marketplace and by aiding the agriculture and forestry industries become more competitive.
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Project Title: Cowlitz PUD Water System Pump Station Upgrades
Recipient: Public Utility District #1 of Cowlitz County, WA
Amount: $441,100
Location: Kelso, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to replace two aging and deteriorated pump stations and upgrade the water supply system serving Cowlitz County residents.
Importance: This project would improve public health and safety by ensuring the continuation of water supply service to customers, providing adequate fire flows at all locations within the zone, and creating construction jobs for the upgrades.
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Project Title: Lake Roosevelt Management and Enforcement
Recipient: Spokane Tribe of Indians and the Colville Tribe
Amount: $630,000
Location: Stevens, Lincoln, Ferry Counties
Purpose: This funding would be used to enable both the Spokane Tribe of Indians and the Colville Tribe to employ law enforcement officers to patrol Lake Roosevelt and its shoreline to enforce federal laws as well as tribal health and safety laws.
Importance: These funds would play a direct role in maintaining public safety while ensuring safe and secure access to the Grand Coulee Dam and Lake Roosevelt.
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Project Name: Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Program
Recipient: United States Forest Service
Amount: $70,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This funding would be used to address the problem of deteriorating, unmaintained Forest Service roads that contribute to the backlog of maintenance needs.
Importance: In addition to increased watershed health and resiliency, millions of taxpayer dollars will be saved over the long-term by reducing maintenance and mitigation costs by reducing the overall road infrastructure on Forest Service lands.
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Project Title: Lower Columbia River Toxics Reduction and Pollution Abatement
Recipient: Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: SW Washington and NW Oregon
Purpose: This funding would be used to implement pollution abatement projects aimed at reducing toxic pollutants in water, sediment, wildlife, and fish along the lower 146 miles of the Columbia River.
Importance: Continued efforts to reduce toxics and pollution in the lower Columbia River and to restore ecosystem health would benefit recovery of the commercial fishing industry, assist with salmon recovery efforts, and contribute to the economies of local communities.
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Project Title: Monitoring and Detection for Zebra Mussels and Other Aquatic Invasive Species in the Columbia River Basin
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $750,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to expand current capabilities to detect aquatic invasive species, including zebra mussels, in the Columbia River Basin.
Importance: Monitoring and early detection is essential for preventing an invasion of zebra mussels or other invasive species into the Columbia River Basin, which would have extensive negative ecological and economic impacts to the area.
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Project Name: National Estuary Program
Recipient: National Estuary Program (28 NEPs nationwide)
Amount: $27,200,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This is a programmatic increase request that would be used to continue support for the National Estuary Program (NEP) which protects nationally significant estuaries by bringing together diverse parties to identify problems, define actions to address these problems, and implement these actions.
Importance: In addition to other National Estuary Programs nationwide, funding will support the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership, which works to restore conditions on the Lower Columbia River through habitat restoration, toxics reduction, and environmental education projects.
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Project Title: North Cascades Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Amount: $200,000
Location: North Cascades Grizzly Bear Recovery zone (Northwest Washington)
Purpose: This funding would be used to complete an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to implement actions identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife in the North Cascades grizzly bear recovery plan framework.
Importance: The North Cascades is one of only six grizzly bear recovery zones, and the only one located outside of the Rocky Mountains. Implementation of a recovery plan is necessary to help prevent the dwindling North Cascades grizzly bear from disappearing all together.
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Project Title: Pacific Crest Trail
Recipient: United States Forest Service
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Wenatchee and Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests
Purpose: This funding would allow the Forest Service to acquire the Missing Link parcel, for conservation purposes.
Importance: Acquisition of the Missing Link parcel would increase ecological benefits, reduce land management complexities, and ensure the continued recreation use of the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Project Title: Puget Sound Ecosystem Research Initiative
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $2,130,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used toward creation of the Puget Sound Ecosystem Research Initiative, which would provide a forum for top research scientists to contribute to and engage in the work of the Puget Sound Partnership.
Importance: This Initiative would advance the work of the Puget Sound Partnership to restore and protect the Puget Sound ecosystem and ensure implementation of the Partnership’s Action Agenda, which would allow for continued efforts to clean up Puget Sound and protect economic development in the area.
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Project Title: Regional Climate Change Impacts Center on Coastal Ecosystems
Recipient: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Sequim, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to establish a research partnership between the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 office and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory aimed at understanding the effects of climate change on the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of the Pacific Northwest’s coastal environments.
Importance: Climate change will have major implications for coastal environments, and this partnership will develop steps can be taken towards preparation for and mitigation of those effects to protect our nation’s coastal areas, including Washington.
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Project Title: Short-tailed Albatross Recovery Program
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Amount: $900,000
Location: Anchorage, AK
Purpose: This funding would support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in its fiveyear long project to establish a new albatross colony on a non-volcanic island as part of a larger recovery plan.
Importance: Restoring the short-tailed albatross and its eventual removal from the endangered species list would not only be an ecological success story, but help guarantee the uninterrupted operation of commercial fisheries in Alaska which are economically important to the state of Washington.
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Project Title: Soos Creek Sewer Lift Station Replacement
Recipient: Soos Creek Water and Sewer District
Amount: $800,000
Location: Covington, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the installation of a gravity flow lift (pump) station and gravity-fed sewer lines to replace the current lift station which is aged and deteriorated and threatens to spill untreated wastewater into Jenkins Creek.
Importance: The replacement lift would reduce the threat of spilling untreated wastewater into a salmon bearing creek and provide updated wastewater services for King County residents.
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Project Title: Timber-Fish-Wildlife Program
Recipient: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Amount: $1,740,000
Location: Statewide
Purpose: This funding would support tribal participation in the cooperative natural resource management efforts established by the Timber-Fish-Wildlife Agreement of 1987 and the Forests and Fish Report.
Importance: Throughout the Pacific Northwest, tribes co-manage natural resources with state and federal agencies, and this funding ensures that tribal participation continues as required through cooperative agreements and helps enhance and preserve the natural resources of Washington state.
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Project Title: Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
Recipient: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Cheney, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to acquire 800 acres of private in-holdings within the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge Stewardship Area.
Importance: Acquisition of these lands would result in enhanced protection of the natural ecosystems of the Refuge, greater protection of local watersheds, and improved conservation of threatened and endangered species.
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Project Title: Upper Columbia United Tribes (UCUT)
Recipient: UCUT
Amount: $500,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to support the Colville, Kalispel, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, and Kootenai Tribes to fulfill federal mandates in natural resources management, primarily focused on fish and wildlife habitat protection and restoration, and fish and wildlife population management.
Importance: Funding would support fulfillment of federal mandates, while also supporting jobs in areas of Washington state that have historically high unemployment rates.
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Project Name: Urban Indian Health Clinics
Recipient: Urban Indian Health Programs
Amount: $41,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This is a programmatic increase request that would support the thirty-four Urban Indian Health Centers across the U.S. that provide culturally appropriate health services to many Native Americans, including primary care as well as outreach and referral services.
Importance: This vital program is necessary to meet the health needs of Native Americans living in urban areas, and specifically is important for Washington state which houses two of these programs: the Seattle Indian Health Board in Seattle and the NATIVE project in Spokane.
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Project Name: U.S.- Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty
Recipient: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Columbia River Intertribal Fish
Commission, Metlakatla Indian Community
Amount: $4,700,000
Location: Throughout West Coast and Alaska
Purpose: This is a programmatic increase request that would support tribal participation in the U.S.- Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty, created in 1985 through the cooperative efforts of the tribes, state governments, United States and Canadian governments and sport commercial fishing interests.
Importance: Funds allocated to the U.S.-Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty foster collaboration between tribes and other regional, state, and federal entities, and support applied research, data gathering, and monitoring efforts that advance the overall salmon management as required by the treaty.
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Project Title: Washington Cascade Ecosystems (Big Creek/Sawmill Creek South)
Recipient: United States Forest Service
Amount: $2,625,000
Location: Wenatchee and Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests
Purpose: This funding would be used to purchase and acquire over 800 acres in the central Cascades for the Forest Service.
Importance: Acquisition of these parcels will ensure protection of valuable wildlife habitat, improve habitat connectivity, enhance recreational activities and reduce land management complexities.
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Project Title: Wild Sky Land Acquisition
Recipient: United States Forest Service
Amount: $3,300,000
Location: Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Purpose: This funding would allow the U.S. Forest Service to acquire approximately 700 acres of private in-holdings adjoining the Wild Sky Wilderness, within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Importance: Adding the proposed acres, which are located adjacent to the newly created Wild Sky Wilderness, will ensure protection of valuable wildlife habitat, improve habitat connectivity, and enhance recreational activities.
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Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Project Title: Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner Demonstration Project
Recipient: Eastern Washington University
Amount: $200,000
Location: Cheney, Washington
Purpose: This funding is for equipment to assist in the establishment of an Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner Project through Eastern Washington University.
Importance: The Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner program will bring oral care to those currently with limited dental care. This project will particularly focus on improving dental care to those living on tribal lands, a population traditionally lacking in oral health care.
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Project Title: Allen Human Brain Atlas
Recipient: Allen Institute for Brain Science
Amount: $650,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will support the creation of a Human Brian Atlas at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a three-dimensional map detailing genes in the human brain, which will survey selected genes in the genome and reveal where each gene is expressed within specific cells.
Importance: This information would be an unprecedented addition to biomedical research, particularly for diseases that have a genetic link. This data will be offered free on the Internet with total open access.
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Project Title: Behavioral Health Center
Recipient: Skagit Valley Hospital
Amount: $750,000
Location: Mount Vernon, WA
Purpose: This project will purchase equipment for a new Behavioral Health Center at Skagit Valley Hospital to serve the acute mental health needs of the community.
Importance: Skagit Valley Hospital is licensed by the State Department of Health as an “Inpatient Evaluation Treatment Facility” and it has seen a dramatic rise in the need for mental health services. This equipment in this new facility will allow Skagit Valley Hospital to operate at its full licensed capacity and expand quality mental health care to those in Northwest Washington.
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Project Title: Building a Competitive Supply Chain Management Workforce
Recipient: Highline Community College
Amount: $250,000
Location: Des Moines, WA
Purpose: This funding would assist Highline Community College in identifying career pathways for students and workers in the thriving supply chain management industry.
Importance: Washington state anticipates it will need to fill nearly 77,000 positions in the supply chain management sector by 2018. This project will help fill a critical-skills gap in the industry by identifying career pathways for high school and college students, unemployed and current workers by developing career information and counseling tools that will expand access training in this field.
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Project Title: Child Care Aware
Recipient: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Arlington, VA
Purpose: The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies’ Child Care Aware program helps families nationwide find high-quality local child care.
Importance: Research shows that children’s mental and emotional development depends on safe and positive care and learning experiences during the first few years of life. This program will assist over one million families each year in locating high-quality, licensed child care resources through a Website, a 1-800 toll free number, and other publications.
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Project Title: Community Agricultural Vocation Institute
Recipient: Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington
Amount: $239,000
Location: Yakima, WA
Purpose: The Community Agricultural Vocation Institute at the Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington will provide workforce, safety, and health training to 600 agricultural workers in 14 counties in Washington state.
Importance: The Community Agricultural and Vocational Institute will provide labor skill development programs, workplace literacy, English as a Second Language, and health and safety programs for agricultural workers in Washington state, supporting the agricultural industry by providing a skilled workforce that can help make their operations efficient, productive and profitable while reducing farmworker’s illnesses, accidents, and fatalities. The project will serve as a model for other states whose economy is supported by the agricultural industry.
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Project Title: Community Health Education and Simulation Center
Recipient: Northwest Hospital & Medical Center
Amount: $500,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will support the establishment of a Community Health Education and Simulation Center at Northwest Hospital and Medical Center.
Importance: The Community Health Education and Simulation Center will serve as a hands-on training center using state-of-the-art equipment for practicing medical procedures and life-saving techniques. In addition, this training will be available to non-hospital staff, such as firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and teachers, offering a training opportunity not typically available for community members.
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Project Title: Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative
Recipient: Evergreen State College
Amount: $325,000
Location: Olympia, Washington
Purpose: This funding would allow the Curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative, based at Evergreen State College, to expand to every college and university in Washington state.
Importance: Expansion of the curriculum for the Bioregion Initiative will help prepare students for the expanding green jobs industry, through extending environmental and sustainable education and professional development opportunities throughout the state of Washington.
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Project Title: Deaf Blind Work/Independence Curriculum and Training Project
Recipient: Deaf Blind Service Center
Amount: $400,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: The Deaf Blind Work/Independence Curriculum and Training Project at the Deaf Blind Service Center prepares Support Service Providers to act as sighted guides and facilitate communication for people who are deaf-blind.
Importance: This funding would provide for the training of 10 Support Service Provider trainers and 8 deaf-blind trainers annually, who will in turn train others around the country, in order to help deaf-blind people maintain employment and independence.
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Project Title: Emergency Department Expansion
Recipient: Central Washington Hospital
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Wenatchee, WA
Purpose: This funding will support the expansion of Central Washington Hospital's Emergency Department.
Importance: This funding will increase access to health care in Central Washington by aiding in the expansion of the emergency room at Central Washington Hospital, which is currently too small to meet the demand placed upon it. This project will double the size of the emergency room, allowing the hospital to handle increased visits and improving access to emergency care.
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Project Title: Emergency Department Expansions to Increase Access for the Underserved
Recipient: Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
Amount: $500,000
Location: Everett, WA
Purpose: This funding will support expansion of trauma services and a pediatric unit in the Emergency Department at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington.
Importance: This funding will expand quality pediatric and trauma emergency services to a larger patient population. Expanding trauma services and a pediatric unit will allow Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett to provide increased services to the uninsured and underinsured and enhance health care access in the region.
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Project Title: Emergency Preparedness Initiative
Recipient: St. Joseph Hospital
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Bellingham, WA
Purpose: This funding will go to purchase equipment to help St. Joseph Hospital maintain appropriate levels of emergency preparedness.
Importance: St. Joseph is the sole provider of emergency and inpatient care for Whatcom county and surrounding areas. This funding will support the hospital to meet growing need for increased health care access in the region.
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Project Title: Enterprise Master Person Identifier Patient Identity Clinical Data Exchange
Recipient: Valley Medical Center
Amount: $674,000
Location: Renton, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow Valley Medical Center to operate a health information technology hub that would allow Valley Medical Center and independent providers to link together in order to share patient information electronically.
Importance: This project will allow providers to have more complete information about their patients available on demand, thereby making more informed care and treatment decisions. Health information technology systems can potentially save billions in health care costs through cutting waste and eliminating the need to repeat medical tests, and save lives by reducing medical errors.
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Project Title: Financial Education
Recipient: Washington Asset Building Coalition
Amount: $200,000
Location: Olympia, Washington
Purpose: This funding will support the dissemination of financial education provided by the Washington Asset Building Coalition allowing it to expand and better coordinate financial education and counseling for low- and moderate- income individuals.
Importance: This project would provide individuals and families with the tools they need to reach financial self-sufficiency and decrease their reliance on government and community services.
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Project Title: Image Guided Radiations Therapy Cancer Treatment Equipment
Recipient: Providence St. Mary Medical Center
Amount: $500,000
Location: Walla Walla, WA
Purpose: This funding will help support the purchase of image guided radiations therapy cancer treatment equipment at Providence St. Mary Medical Center.
Importance: This next generation of cancer treatment, image guided radiations therapy, will bring significant improvement and outcomes for patients receiving radiation treatments. This system allows for more precise treatments and the use of higher doses to the tumor resulting in greater tumor control and better outcomes. In addition, this project will bring this new cancer treatment into an area of Washington state with limited health care access and allow patients to stay close to home and employed throughout the duration of their treatment.
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Project Title: Inland Northwest Regional Partnership for Sustainable Development
Recipient: Spokane Area Workforce Development Council
Amount: $360,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This money will support the comprehensive regional planning efforts to address the workforce challenges of the Spokane area.
Importance: The project will take a regional approach to creating an integrated workforce development planning and implementation model that will promote the growth of the clean energy and energy efficient technology sector. The collaboration of business, education, labor, and the public sector will result in workers receiving skills that allow them to earn higher wages and meet business needs in a new and growing sector of the economy. The project can serve as a model for other regional workforce and economic development partnerships as they tackle economic development issues across the county.
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Project Title: Kids in Medicine
Recipient: Seattle Science Foundation
Amount: $250,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: Funding will support the Kids in Medicine Program, a hands-on medical science program for elementary school students and teachers developed by the Seattle Science Foundation.
Importance: This program provides a hands-on medical science curriculum for elementary school students and professional development and planning for elementary school teachers to stimulate interest in the medical sciences. The program places a particular emphasis on serving students and teachers in low-income areas in the Puget Sound region.
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Project Title: Local Partnership to Increase Training and Jobs for Homeless and Runaway Youth
Recipient: National Network for Youth
Amount: $250,000
Location: Seattle, Washington
Purpose: This funding will help the National Network for Youth expand an effective model of education and training for homeless youth to help connect themto jobs and education opportunities to prepare them for successful careers and independent living.
Importance: This project seeks to create a model that can be used in rural and urban settings to help homeless youth reconnect to school and the labor market to become more productive and independent participants in the workforce.
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Project Title: National Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Innovation Center
Recipient: Edmonds Community College
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Lynnwood, WA
Purpose: This project will address aerospace workforce needs in Washington State by investing in modern, technical equipment to train workers in skills required by the industry.
Importance: The aerospace industry accounts for more than seven percent of total employment in Washington State. A highly skilled workforce is necessary to maintain this industry in the state and to sustain the nation's industrial base. This project will help create conditions at the private and public level that enable research and development firms to increase productivity, efficiency, and innovation to help sustain this industry in Washington state.
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Project Title: Navos Mental Health Center, Facilities and Equipment
Recipient: Navos
Amount: $800,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding is for construction and equipment to assist in the construction of a new outpatient mental health center at Navos Mental Health Center.
Importance: This new outpatient mental health center will replace an existing substandard facility and enhance the only non-profit organization in King County offering a full spectrum of mental health services for low-income adults and children.
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Project Title: Nonviolence Leadership Curriculum Project
Recipient: Institute for Community Leadership
Amount: $375,000
Location: Kent, Washington
Purpose: The Nonviolence Leadership Curriculum Project, developed by the Institute for Community Leadership, would assist educators in accessing curricula and programming designed to reduce violence and academic disparities among underserved youth communities.
Importance: This program would help students to develop the leadership skills needed to be competitive in the current global economy and would create practical tools to reduce student drop-out rates and lessen academic achievement gaps.
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Project Title: Olympic Medical’s Community Electronic Medical Records Connection Project
Recipient: Olympic Medical Center
Amount: $750,000
Location: Port Angeles, WA
Purpose: This funding is for equipment to implement a Community Electronic Medical Records Connection Project at Olympic Medical Center.
Importance: Olympic Medical Center’s project will improve communications between the medical center, clinics, doctors, pharmacies, labs, home health and other qualified providers, resulting in better overall medical care for Clallam County community members and beyond. Electronic medical records, health information technology and health information exchanges have been proven to enhance health care and reduce health care costs.
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Project Title: Pathway to Apprenticeship
Recipient: Washington State Labor Council AFL-CIO
Amount: $194,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will support the Pathway to Apprenticeship program at the Washington State Labor Council AFL-CIO which will support the creation of a pathway for young people to apprenticeship training programs in high demand industries across the state of Washington.
Importance: These funds will connect the K-12 Career and Technical Education community with the opportunities in registered apprenticeship and other technical careers for the benefit of interested students. Students who prepare for these pre-apprenticeship opportunities are less likely to drop out, will be work-ready upon completion of their high school career, and be able to take advantage of high wage employment that meets or exceeds the wage of baccalaureate completers in many cases. Additionally, the cost of continuing training once entered into apprenticeship is paid by the workers and the employers through established training trust funds, which require no public subsidy. The model created by this project can be beneficial to other states interested in building a stronger connection between registered apprenticeship programs and students.
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Project Title: Pathways to Green Careers – Summer School Expansion
Recipient: Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center
Amount: $125,000
Location: Vancouver, Washington
Purpose: Funding for the Pathways to Green Careers Summer School Expansion at the Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center would provide students with skills and knowledge in alternative energy, habitat restoration, and waste reduction.
Importance: This project would prepare 30 students annually for the skilled green workforce needed to move our nation towards energy independence and build a stronger and more sustainable economic future.
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Project Title: Providence Breast Cancer Outreach, Education and Treatment Project
Recipient: Providence Centralia Hospital
Amount: $250,000
Location: Centralia, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to purchase equipment for the screening and detection of breast cancer at Providence Centralia Hospital.
Importance: This project will increase the early detection of breast cancer. While Washington state has the highest incidence of breast cancer in the nation, only 50% of women who need screening mammograms get them. Early detection has been shown to save health care dollars. If caught early, 98% of women diagnosed with breast cancer will make a complete recovery.
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Project Title: Rainer Beach Medical and Dental Clinic
Recipient: Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding is for the purchase and installation of equipment for a new clinic at the Rainer Beach Medical and Dental Clinic, part of the Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers which would expand access to medical care in the community.
Importance: The current dental clinic in Southeast Seattle is being forced to establish a new permanent clinic site as a result of Seattle Housing Authority redeveloping its current site. This clinic currently serves 4,300 patients annually and is the leading community health care provider of dental access to Seattle’s low-income and uninsured residents.
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Project Title: Skills for Life Online (K-12 Internet Safety Curriculum)
Recipient: LookBothWays
Amount: $500,000
Location: Port Townsend, Washington
Purpose: Skills for Life Online, developed by LookBothWays, would create an age-appropriate Internet safety curriculum and professional development materials for teachers.
Importance: This project would help students learn the skills they need to act safely and appropriately online and avoid online crime.
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Project Title: SEIU Healthcare NW Training Partnership
Recipient: Washington State Board for Community Technical Colleges
Amount: $500,000
Location: Federal Way, WA
Purpose: This funding will support training and career development services in the long-term care sector in Washington State.
Importance: The Training Partnership is a cooperative effort by employees and employers to provide quality training, on-the-job and mentoring support, and career development services for home care workers. This project will develop a career track leading to nursing and other high demand hospital jobs under the apprenticeship model and will produce curriculum, including e-learning, that will contribute to knowledge development in the field. This will be the first Apprenticeship program for long-term care workers in Washington State and can serve as a model for other states interested in developing an apprenticeship program to support the home care field.
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Project Title: Stevens Hospital Emergency Department and 24 Variable Acuity Bed Unit
Recipient: Stevens Hospital
Amount: $750,000
Location: Edmonds, WA
Purpose: This funding is for equipment for the new Stevens Hospital Emergency Department.
Importance: The Stevens Hospital Emergency Department currently receives twice as many patients as it was the originally designed for. Upgrades to the facility and the new equipment will expand the access to the Emergency Department and quality of the care provided in the region.
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Project Title: Type 1 Diabetes Scientific Research Equipment
Recipient: Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute
Amount: $250,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding is for research equipment to screen newborns for Type 1 diabetes through the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute.
Importance: The Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute is seeking funds to support its screening of newborns for Type 1 diabetes. This test allows families to look into their genetic past to see if their child is a high-risk for developing Type 1 diabetes. If the child is at high risk, specific tests and education can be provided to help manage one of this country’s most prevalent and expensive chronic diseases.
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Project Title: Virginia Mason Medical Center Emergency Department Capacity Expansion Project
Recipient: Virginia Mason Medical Center
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding is for renovation and equipment to expand capacity at the Virginia Mason Medical Center Emergency Department.
Importance: The new Emergency Department at Virginia Mason Medical Center will meet the growing demand for care sough through the Virginia Mason Emergency Department by reducing wait times and delays and increase access to emergency care in the region.
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Project Title: The Volpentest Pediatric Institute
Recipient: Kadlec Medical Center
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Richland, WA
Purpose: This funding is for construction and equipment to support the expansion of the new pediatric center at Kadlec Medical Center.
Importance: Kadlec Medical Center is in the process of completely an expansion project which will include a new pediatric center. Kadlec Medical Center maintains a Pediatric Hospitalist Program managed by Children’s Hospital of Seattle and has the only NICU in Southeastern Washington. Previous to this construction of a pediatric center at Kadlec, the nearest pediatric center to the Tri-Cities was in Seattle. This expansion will allow for increased access to health care and bring more jobs to the Tri-Cities area.
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Project Title: University of Washington Bothell Nursing Faculty Consortium Training Program
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $500,000
Location: Bothell, Washington
Purpose: This money will support the expansion of the University of Washington Bothell’s nursing program to encompass several additional community and technical colleges.
Importance: The University of Washington Bothell Nursing Consortium project is aimed at addressing the increased need for nurses by increasing the number of master's prepared nursing faculty available to teach in Washington's community and technical colleges. This will be accomplished through the development of a consortium of associate degree nursing programs.
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Project Title: Washington State University Nursing School
Recipient: Washington State University-Spokane
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding will support equipment for distance learning at the Washington State University Nursing College.
Importance: This funding will help the WSU Nursing School relocate to the Spokane Riverpoint Campus, where a new building for the College of Nursing is being build. This new building will dramatically increase access to the nursing programs offered by the College. The anticipated growth will accommodate additional students in Spokane, and more students at the other WSU locations and across the state via distance education. Space will be provided for a new doctoral program, to address the region’s critical need for nursing faculty and the existing shortage of nurse scientists and nurse executives.
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Project Title: WIN 211 – Keep Washington Connected
Recipient: Washington Information Network
Amount: $200,000
Location: Renton, Washington
Purpose: Funding for WIN 211 – Keep Washington Connected would provide for outreach to partner agencies, training new referral specialists at each call center, and quality assurance measures for 2-1-1 services and information.
Importance: It can be difficult for citizens to navigate the complicated web of health and human services available when they are in need of them. WIN 211 expands access to information by providing telephone services and 24/7 Website access to connect thousands of people every day with resources statewide.
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Project Title: Workplace-Based Distance Learning for Low-wage, Low-skill Workers
Recipient: Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board
Amount: $1,700,000
Location: Olympia, WA
Purpose: This project will establish six regional learning laboratories to expand delivery of education and training opportunities to low income adult workers in Washington state.
Importance: This investment will generate a new, sustainable model for education and training for under-skilled workers. Low-wage, low-skilled workers will be able to receive the training necessary to increase their skills and move towards economic self-sufficiency. This job training will also provide more skilled workers to allow employers to be more competitive in the 21st century workplace.
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Project Title: Wrap Around Services
Recipient: City of Bellevue
Amount: $375,000
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Purpose: The Wrap Around Services program in the City of Bellevue would provide three additional schools access to a wrap-around service safety net.
Importance: This program would coordinate and provide health and human services to meet the educational and developmental needs of the diverse children and youth population served by the school and community.
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Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Project Title: SERE Force Support Complex Phase 1
Recipient: Fairchild Air Force Base
Amount: $11,000,000
Location: Fairchild Air Force Base, WA
Purpose: To construct a new Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) support facility.
Importance: The current facility at Fairchild is aged and ill-equipped for its current mission to train U.S. military personnel to avoid, resist and escape from capture. The construction of a new SERE support facility would facilitate this critical training for servicemembers during a time of war.
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Project Title: Small Craft Launch
Recipient: Naval Station Everett
Amount: $2,620,000
Location: Naval Station Everett, WA
Purpose: To construct a small boat launch at Naval Station Everett.
Importance: Currently, Navy and Coast Guard personnel at Naval Station Everett must tow small boats roughly one mile to a public boat launch, hampering their ability to quickly respond to security threats and environmental situations. Constructing a small boat launch on-base will enhance Fleet Readiness, help keep sailors and civilians safe, and conserve energy.
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Project Title: Total Force Integration (TFI) Refueling Vehicle Maintenance Facility
Recipient: Fairchild Air Force Base
Amount: $4,150,000
Location: Fairchild Air Force Base, WA
Purpose: To construct a Total Force Integration (TFI) Refueling Vehicle Maintenance Facility at Fairchild Air Force Base.
Importance: Air Force personnel who service, maintain and repair refueling vehicles at Fairchild must work out of an unheated, undersized facility nearly two miles from the refueling vehicle parking lot. Constructing a new Maintenance Facility will improve working conditions for Airmen, save energy and time, and support the Aerial Refueling mission.
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Project Title: Women’s Health Center Facility
Recipient: Fort Lewis
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Fort Lewis, Washington
Purpose: To plan and design a Women’s Health Care Facility at Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis.
Importance: A new Women’s Health Care Facility would provide needed health care services to Fort Lewis’ large population of women and infants. It would improve the accessibility and quality of health care at Madigan Army Medical Center, which serves one of the largest communities of active duty and retired servicemembers and their families in the Nation.
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SAFETEA-LU Reauthorization
Project Title: I-5 Columbia River Crossing Project - WA
Recipient: Washington State Department of Transportation
Amount: $3,000,000
Location: Vancouver, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide for the completion of the Environmental Impact Statement and design for the Interstate 5 Columbia River Crossing project.
Importance: Completion of the Environmental Impact Statement and design of the I-5 Columbia River Crossing project will expedite a much needed transportation solution that, once completed, will reduce traffic congestion, improve freight movement, and increase safety on I-5.
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Project Title: Mercer Street Corridor Project - WA
Recipient: City of Seattle
Amount: $50,000,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding will support the construction of multi-modal improvements on Mercer Street between Interstate 5 and Dexter Avenue, including street widening, new sidewalk and other pedestrian safety improvements.
Importance: This project would significantly ease one of Seattle's most congested corridors, streamlining freight movement to and from Interbay, keeping vehicle flow steady and increasing pedestrian and bicycle safety.
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Project Title: US 12 Corridor Improvements: Burbank to Walla Walla - WA
Recipient: Washington State Department of Transportation
Amount: $24,000,000
Location: Walla Walla, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide for the construction of two additional lanes along US Highway 12 between Burbank and Walla Walla, WA.
Importance: The expansion of US 12 from a two to four lane highway will significantly increase vehicle safety and expand freight mobility, enhancing the capacity of existing businesses and encouraging further economic development in the region.
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Project Title: US 395 North Spokane Corridor Project - WA
Recipient: Washington State Department of Transportation
Amount: $40,000,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding will provide for the design, right-of-way acquisition and initial construction of a highway corridor connection through metropolitan Spokane to Interstate 90.
Importance: This project will reduce local congestion, increase freight mobility to accommodate the 7.2 million tons of freight moving through the corridor, provide for non-motorized safety improvements with dedicated pedestrian paths and transit park-and-ride centers, and enhance economic development to adjacent business and residential districts.
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FY10 DoD Authorization Request
Military Construction
Project Title: SERE Force Support Complex Phase 1
Recipient: Fairchild Air Force Base
Amount: $11,000,000
Location: Fairchild Air Force Base, WA
Purpose: To construct a new Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) support facility.
Importance: The current facility at Fairchild is aged and ill-equipped for its current mission to train U.S. military personnel to avoid, resist and escape from capture. The construction of a new SERE support facility would facilitate this critical training for servicemembers during a time of war.
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Project Title: Small Craft Launch
Recipient: Naval Station Everett
Amount: $2,620,000
Location: Naval Station Everett, WA
Purpose: To construct a small boat launch at Naval Station Everett.
Importance: Currently, Navy and Coast Guard personnel at Naval Station Everett must tow small boats roughly one mile to a public boat launch, hampering their ability to quickly respond to security threats and environmental situations. Constructing a small boat launch on-base will enhance Fleet Readiness, help keep sailors and civilians safe, and conserve energy.
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Project Title: Total Force Integration (TFI) Refueling Vehicle Maintenance Facility
Recipient: Fairchild Air Force Base
Amount: $4,150,000
Location: Fairchild Air Force Base, WA
Purpose: To construct a Total Force Integration (TFI) Refueling Vehicle Maintenance Facility at Fairchild Air Force Base.
Importance: Air Force personnel who service, maintain and repair refueling vehicles at Fairchild must work out of an unheated, undersized facility nearly two miles from the refueling vehicle parking lot. Constructing a new Maintenance Facility will improve working conditions for Airmen, save energy and time, and support the Aerial Refueling mission.
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Project Title: Women’s Health Center Facility
Recipient: Fort Lewis
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Fort Lewis, Washington
Purpose: To plan and design a Women’s Health Care Facility at Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis.
Importance: A new Women’s Health Care Facility would provide needed health care services to Fort Lewis’ large population of women and infants. It would improve the accessibility and quality of health care at Madigan Army Medical Center, which serves one of the largest communities of active duty and retired servicemembers and their families in the Nation.
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Defense
Project Title: Western Regional Counter Drug Training Center
Recipient: Washington Military Department
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Camp Murray, Washington
Purpose: To create a counter drug prevention, detection, and interdiction training center at the Army National Guard installation at Camp Murray.
Importance: This world-class, multi-use training and education center would provide vital training to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement officers to provide them with the skills needed to protect communities in Washington state and across the nation from illegal narcotics trafficking and the threat of narcoterrorism.
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FY09 Overseas Contingency Operations Supplemental Bill
Military Construction
Project Title: Vision Center of Excellence
Recipient: National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda
Amount: $4,052,000
Location: Bethesda, MD
Purpose: To renovate space at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD to accommodate the Vision Center of Excellence.
Importance: This Center would improve care for the growing number of wounded troops with penetrating direct eye trauma and/or TBI-related visual complications by focusing on the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment and rehabilitation of military eye injuries; implementing a Defense and Veterans Eye Injury Registry; and coordinating care and benefits between DoD and VA.