Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations Submissions

All those requesting appropriations for the FY10 term were required to answer the question "Why is this request an appropriate responsibility of the federal government?"

 

These requests were submitted for funding through the FY 2010 Appropriations process.

 

House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science

 

County of Alpine & County of Calaveras – Law Enforcement Radio and Data Communications
Recipient: County of Calaveras, 891 Mountain Ranch Road, San Andreas, CA 95249
($2,400,000)

This project creates an interoperable and tactical communications backbone between the Counties of Alpine and Calaveras. Full build out will also connect Counties as far away as San Francisco across the Sierras to the State of Nevada for secondary phone, data and radio interoperability and connectivity. The project fixes local radio operability and interoperability in the two counties in which the Federal Government is the majority land owner.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the imperative for interoperability in the provision of emergency services and administration of public safety in two counties in which the Federal Government is the majority land owner.

 

National Textile Center
Recipient: University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
($1,250,000)

The NTC is the only federal source that supports fundamental, peer-reviewed research pertaining to personal protection (via clothing) for homeland security. The NTC funding has enabled the universities to build up to a critical mass of undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to enhance the competitiveness of science and engineering workforce in the U.S., addressing compelling state and national interests.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to its directed research efforts to develop innovative approaches to homeland security needs through the medium of personal clothing, providing for better protection from myriad of threats to first responders and military personnel.

 

Folsom Emergency Operations Center
Recipient: City of Folsom, 50 Natoma Street, Folsom, CA 95630
($2,000,000)

This project will expand the crucial capabilities of the Folsom EOC to function for both the City of Folsom and as the Alternative County Site.  Best practices highlight the importance of having redundant emergency management capacity to ensure a balanced strategy for handling emergencies.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds because it provides a critical capability to both the City of Folsom and California’s State Capitol, ensuring emergency operations and first response measures are coordinated with the greatest ability.

 

California Methamphetamine Strategy (CALMS)
Recipient: California Department of Justice, 1300 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
($350,000)

The requested funding will be used to target meth operations in Sacramento County and the surrounding area.  The proposed funding will be used to pay for necessary equipment, investigation, and overtime costs incurred by the CALMS program.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds as it will target methamphetamine production and distribution, which have wide reaching impacts on communities in terms of public safety.

 

House Subcommittee on Defense

 

Feature Size Yield Enhancement DMEA’s Advanced Reconfigurable Manufacturing for Semiconductors (ARMS) Foundry
Recipient: Defense Microelectronics Activity, 4234 54^th Street, McClellan, CA 95662
($23,500,000)

This project will allow Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) to proceed with its plan to acquire the more complex processes required to support newer weapon system microelectronics, install these processes in its ARMS Foundry and increase the first pass yield of these new processes.  It will also work to reduce the time required to switch from one process to another and to maximize the yield of the reinstalled process.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the need for domestic capability for technologies conversion to maintain and improve upon our national defense system.

 

Minuteman III Advanced Third Stage Domestic Fiber Motor Case Development
Recipient: Air Force ICBM Propellant Applications Program, Hill Air Force Base, UT
($5,000,000)

This project will develop a domestic supply of the composite fibers used to construct the motor case.  Japanese fibers traditionally used to construct the motor case are no longer available as the Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade, & Industry requires pre-approval for all military applications.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the need for a domestic, reliable source of composite fibers to ensure the success and maintained capabilities of this segment of our national defense system.

 

Heterogeneous Gallium Nitride/Silicon Microcircuit Technology
Recipient: Defense Microelectronics Activity, 4234 54^th Street, McClellan, CA 95662
($10,300,000)

This project will develop a replacement for gallium arsenide technology currently used in input amplification and frequency conversion circuits of military radar and communications systems. DMEA will use Gallium Nitride/Silicon to replace old gallium arsenide components.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the crucial need to upgrade and further develop military radar and communications systems, which are of seminal importance to the safety and success of our military personnel and missions.

 

Military Burn Trauma Research Program
Recipient: American Burn Association, 625 N. Michigan Ave. Ste 2550, Chicago, IL 60611
($8,000,000)

The requested funding would be used to foster collaboration between military and civilian burn surgeons and researchers and to identify best practices to ensure better treatment and outcomes for military burn patients, specifically improved clinical outcomes for combat burn casualties.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the critical need to address military burn casualties with the greatest of medicinal technology, providing the greatest possibility for recovery and rehabilitation of our nation’s military personnel.

 

Athena 2 Enhanced COMINT and RCIED System
Recipient: Sierra Nevada EWR, 3034 Gold Canal Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
($3,000,000)

The requested funding would be used to develop a system to geo-locate enemy communications and Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RC-IEDs).  Athena integrates with the existing Thor counter-RCIED jammer, and it helps ground forces safely avoid or effectively neutralize the enemy.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the critical need for effective technology to mitigate against the threats of RC-IEDs, providing a fuller array of defense capabilities to our military personnel.

 

Fuel Cell Power System – USSOCOM
Recipient: Jadoo Power Systems, 181 Blue Ravine, Folsom, CA 95630
($2,200,000)

This project would reduce the weight of portable power systems carried into theater. Specifically, the funding will progress the development of the IFS-24 to a TRL-8 and deliver 50 qualification units for field qualification testing by the US Armed Forces by December 2009.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to its mission of enabling our military personnel to operate with greater agility in deployment.

 

Renewable Energy Testing Center
Recipient: Technikon LLC, 5301 Price Ave, McClellan, CA 95652
($10,300,000)

This funding would be used to provide the State of California and Department of Defense with an independent “Underwriters Laboratory” resource for evaluating the performance of renewable energy and renewable fuel production technologies.  RETC will provide metrics on robustness, safety, energy efficiency, environmental effectiveness, and other key parameters of these technologies needed for successful commercialization.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the need to develop reliable technology verification to meet requisites placed on the Department of Defense regarding development and deployment of renewable energy technologies.

 

Guardrail Modernization
Recipient: Northrop Grumman Corp, 1000 Wilson Blvd, Ste 2300, Arlington, VA 22209
(Letter in support of the Presidential Budget for this specific program)

The requested funding would be used to modernize Guardrail Common Sensor (GRCS), which is an Airborne Signal Intercept and Emitter Location System designed to provide tactical commanders with critical battlefield information via a Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT) and other DOD Tactical and Fixed Communications Systems (e.g., Guardrail Reporting Shelter (GRS).

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the tactical capabilities it will provide to our military personnel, enabling them to function with greater efficacy while increasing the safety of missions through provision of better battlefield intelligence.

 

House Subcommittee on Energy and Water

 

Folsom Dam Outlets Modification
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, 1325 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
($66,000,000)

This funding will provide for the design and construction of a new spillway at Folsom Dam that will reduce the frequency of flooding in this major urban area.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the glaring need to bolster flood control systems in the Sacramento Region, specifically with regard to the American River Watershed.

 

Folsom Dam Raise
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, 1325 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
($600,000)

The Folsom Dam Raise project consists of the selected 3.5’ raise of Folsom Dam and reservoir dikes, reconfiguring the Folsom Dam penstocks, ecosystem restoration projects, and the construction of a bridge below Folsom Dam.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the glaring need to bolster flood control systems in the Sacramento Region, specifically with regard to the American River Watershed.

 

Folsom Dam Bridge (Authorization)
Language: “Section 134 of Public Law 108-137 (117 Stat. 1842), as amended, is further amended by striking ‘$30,000,000’ wherever it appears and inserting ‘$51,000,000’ in lieu thereof.”

 

Folsom Dam Bridge (Appropriation)
Recipient: City of Folsom, 50 Natoma Street, Folsom, CA 95630
($8,000,000)

The funding would be used to cover engineering, design, and construction of the new bridge below Folsom Dam as authorized in the Fiscal Year 2004 Energy & Water Appropriations Bill.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds providing an important crossing of the American River, over which emergency services may be extended to a community impacted by the closure of the Folsom Dam Road by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

 

American River Common Features & GRR
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, 1325 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
($20,600,000)

The project will reduce the possibility of loss of life and flood damage by improving the levee system protecting the Sacramento Metropolitan area from flooding along the Sacramento and American Rivers.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the glaring need to bolster flood control systems in the Sacramento Region, specifically with regard to the American River Watershed.

 

South Sacramento County Streams
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, 1325 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
($20,000,000)

This public safety project will increase the level of flood protection for the highly urbanized area of South Sacramento County and the City of Sacramento, protecting more than 100,000 residents. The project will increase the level of flood protection from the Morrison Creek stream group, from 50 years to over 200 years.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the glaring need to bolster flood control systems in the Sacramento Region, specifically with regard to the Sacramento River.

 

McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center – Replacement of Defective DOE Loop Isotope Production System
Recipient: University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
($1,000,000)

This request is to provide funding to replace the nation’s current sole domestic source of Iodine-125 (I-125) production located at the UC Davis McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center (MNRC). In April 2004, the system experienced its fourth and final failure causing production to cease entirely and the system remains inoperable today.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds as the McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center represents the only domestic source of Iodine-125, which is essential in detection and treatment of various types of cancer.

 

New Hogan Water Distribution System
Recipient: Calaveras County Water District, 423 East Charles Street, PO Box 846, San Andreas, CA 95249
($600,000)

The New Hogan Regional Water Supply Infrastructure and Environmental Restoration Program is a multi-phased project that will improve the region’s water supply, significantly increase and protect water quality. The project will construct infrastructure to convey surface water to existing and expanding agricultural acreage in western Calaveras County. The area currently relies on a diminishing groundwater supply, which is experiencing water quality problems and has been identified as an over-drafted groundwater basin.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds due to the seminal importance of securing a sustainable, reliable, and safe water supply, particularly as it relates to the security of our nation’s food supply.

 

Sacramento Area Flood Emergency (SAFE) Communications Program
Recipient: Altergy Systems, 140 Blue Ravine, Folsom, CA 95630
($2,500,000)

This project will fund homeland security applications with the capacity to transfer the technology developed for the telecom industry to support flood emergency applications including, but not limited to; back up power generation for operation of pumps, emergency communication portals, and overall support of critical infrastructure operations for an amount of time and level of predictability which sustains current applications.

This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds as the development of a reliable energy conveyance infrastructure is imperative in addressing disaster response needs.

 

House Subcommittee on Homeland Security

 

Elk Grove Emergency Operations Center
Recipient: City of Elk Grove, 8401 Laguna Palms Way, Elk Grove, CA 95758
($987,000)

This funding will establish an Emergency Operations Center in a critical region of Sacramento County, providing EOC capabilities to two critical corridors -- Interstate-5 and CA State Route 99 -- as well as the State Capitol