Doyle Funding Requests for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Included in 2008 Federal Spending Bills

Pittsburgh, PA – US Representative Mike Doyle (PA-14)released a list of his funding requests that were included in the federal fiscal year 2008 omnibus appropriations bill signed into law by President Bush earlier today: 

Energy and Water

$468,384 for 3 Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Section 219, for the removal of stream discharges from municipal combined sewers

$2.46M from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers General Investigations Account for the Upper Ohio River, Emsworth, Dashields and Montgomery Locks and Dams Navigation Improvement Project Feasibility Study.  Funding will be used to complete a study of the condition of the Upper Ohio River Locks and Dams and to recommend alternatives for replacement or repair.  (Altmire, Doyle, Specter, Casey request)

$42,312,000 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Construction General Account, for the Emsworth Dam Rehabilitation.  Funding will used for emergency repairs to Emsworth Dams. (Altmire, Doyle, Specter, Casey, President request)

$69,175,200 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, General Investigations Account, for the Lower Monongahela Improvement Project for Locks and Dams 2,3, and 4.   Funding will be used to repair the navigation facilities along the Lower Monongahela River (Murphy, Doyle, Specter, Casey request)

$4.92M for the International Alternative Cleanup Technology Agreement under the Department of Energy’s Defense Environmental Cleanup Account to demonstrate and deploy innovative, more cost-effective ways to clean up nuclear weapons production waste.  (Doyle, Specter, McHenry request)

Financial Services

$150,000 from the Small Business Administration for The North Side Industrial Development Co., New Business-New Beginning Program for a business training program.

Labor/HHS/Education
 
$307,413.60 from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration Account for The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh expansion project for facilities and equipment. 

$150,000 from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration Account for Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh for construction of a new facility dedicated pediatric health care and research (Specter, Casey, Doyle request)

$307,413.60 from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration Account for The Upper Rooms at the Reformed Presbyterians Woman’s Home.  Funding will support construction of a connector between The Upper Rooms and the Reformed Presbyterian Home.

Commerce-Justice-Science

$94,000 for Gwen’s Girls from the DoJ Juvenile Justice Account for prevention services for at-risk girls, ages 8-18, in economically depressed areas of Allegheny County. 

$47,000 for Homestead Borough Police Department from the DoJ Edward Byrne Account for Crime Prevention and Assistance for coordinating a drug prevention program for the community. 

$376,000 from the DoJ Edward Byrne Account for Duquesne University Cyber-Security Preparedness for Small and Medium Sized Business Project.

$188,000 for Family Communications’ Western PA CARES from the from the DoJ Juvenile Justice Account. Funding will provide prevention services for pre-school age children from low-income families in economically depressed areas of Allegheny County. 

$94,000 for East End Cooperative Ministry from the from the DoJ Juvenile Justice Account.   Funding will be used for at-risk youth programs that prevent crime and juvenile delinquency (Doyle, Specter, Casey request)

$376,000 for East End Cooperative Ministry from the from the DoJ Juvenile Justice Account.  Funding will be used for at-risk youth programs that prevent crime and juvenile delinquency (Specter, Casey, Doyle request)

$94,000 for Heritage Health Foundation’s 4 Kids Learning Network from the Juvenile Justice Account.  Funding will assist the program in addressing pre-kindergarten preparation, after-school learning support, and family support services. 

$47,000 for YouthWorks, Inc. from the Juvenile Justice Account.  Funding will help provide services within the framework of the following program areas: youth employment program development, training, and private sector experiences.

Transportation/HUD

$998,000 from DoT for Allegheny County East-West Corridor Rapid Transit Airport to Mon Valley.  Funds will go towards planning, and engineering work for rapid transit corridor linking the Pittsburgh International Airport with Downtown Pittsburgh, Oakland, and the Mon Valley. (Doyle, Altmire request)

$98,000 from HUD for the Focus on Renewal Cultural Arts Center in McKees Rocks for planning, design, and construction of a recreational and educational facility. 

$98,000 from HUD for improvements to the Coraopolis downtown business district. 

$98,000 from HUD for the Allegheny County Department of Planning in Pittsburgh, PA for planning, design, renovation, construction and buildout of a brownfield site. (Doyle, Altmire request)

$1,247,500 from DoT for the East Carson Street Widening Project for the construction project, including widening the cartway to two lanes and improvements to sidewalks, street lighting, drainage, and ADA compliant street crossings. (Specter, Casey, Doyle request)

Interior and Environment Bill

$800,000 from EPA for 3 Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program to fix municipal sewers, protect the region’s streams and augment the investment of local governments in compliance with the Clean Water Act. (Specter, Doyle request)

$150,000 from DoI from the Saving America’s Treasures account for the Pittsburgh Courier Archive Preservation 

Military Construction/VA

$828,000 from DoD for the Visiting Quarters, Phase 1, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.  The funds are provided for planning and design of their facility. (Specter, Casey, Doyle request).

Homeland Security

$500,000 for the Regional Joint Readiness Center, Pittsburgh, PA from the FEMA Predisaster Mitigation Account.  Funds are for planning and development of a center to organize regional responses to terrorist attacks and natural disasters (Doyle, Altmire, Murphy request).

In addition, the following funding requested by Congressdman Doyle was included in the Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bill for the Department of Defense, which was signed into law by President Bush on November 13:

Defense

$4 Million for Carnegie Mellon University's Perpetually Available and Secure Information Systems (PASIS) program, which develops technologies to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and security essential to government communication and intelligence.

$1.6 Million for The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center to support the commercialization of advancements in nano-structured materials that have military and commercial applications. 

$1.2 Million for the Doyle Center for Manufacturing Technology for research on the application of commercially available technologies, training, and infrastructure in small manufacturing enterprises (SME's) that supply critical goods and services to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

$1.2 Million for Stemnion’s Rapid Wound Healing Technology Development Project for research on amnion-derived cell therapies for rapid wound healing applications.  These efforts will focus on empirical testing, selection and optimization, as well as preclinical toxicity, to improve the healing of traumatic wounds.

$800,000 for Prologic’s Effects Based Decision Support Services (EBODSS). The EBODSS project is using analytical engines and advanced probabilistic display environments to create decision support tools for lethal and non-lethal weapons and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance sensors.

$800,000 for Eye360’s Advanced Panoramic Sensor System Program to develop advanced visual imaging technologies and related sensor and computing technologies for the unmanned aerial vehicles used by the U.S. military. 

$800,000 for research on Advanced Performance Transparent Armor for Tactical Wheeled Vehicles, which will be integrated into current and future combat vehicles based on technologies developed and tested by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and its industrial partners (including Pittsburgh Plate Glass).  

$1.9 Million for the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative’s Advanced Regenerative Medicine project, which is working to improve treatments for soldiers who receive traumatic burns in the line of duty by utilizing regenerative medical technology like tissue engineering, cellular therapies, biosurgery, and artificial and biohybrid organ devices.

$800,000 for Converteam’s Integrated Power System (IPS) Converter, a new component of the IPS program that the Navy initiated to develop all-electric power systems that can be used in any class of ship. 

$800,000 for research by Body Media on advanced non-invasive glucose monitoring, a technology that will improve the way diabetes monitoring is conducted and allow for improved and maintained health of soldiers.