The following Maryland
projects requested by Senator Cardin were included in Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations
bills that have been passed by the House and Senate and were signed into law on
September 30, 2008 by President Bush.
FY09
Department of Defense Appropriations
Advanced
Restoration Therapies in Spinal Cord Injuries, $2 million for new
therapies and techniques to aid service members afflicted with spinal cord
injuries. This work will be performed at the Kennedy Kreiger Institute in Baltimore, a cutting edge
medical research, education and treatment facility.
Air
Combat Environment Test and Evaluation Facility Upgrades, $3 million forupgrades
at Patuxent River Naval Air Station. The upgrades will incorporate advanced
instrumentation and display technology that will increase the value and
capability of the Navy's Atlantic
Test Range.
All Weather Sense and Avoid Technologies for Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), $2.5 million to
mitigate the chances of UAVs colliding with other aircraft.
Antibody Based Therapeutic
Treatments against Smallpox, $800,000
will support the development of a smallpox treatment for military personnel and
civilians.
Auxiliary Power Unit
for the M1A1 Abrams Tank, $2.4 million
to develop a power unit to reduce the Army Abrams Tank fuel demand by 50
percent, cutting Abrams daily fuel use in Iraq
from $30 to $15 million a day, saving taxpayers money and reducing America's
dependence on foreign oil.
Bio-Agent Early
Warning Detector, $2 million to allow the continued
development of new technology to rapidly identify biological threats on the
battlefield.
Biodefense
Technology Transfer Initiative, $1.5 million will benefit national
security by attracting new technologies for military use.The initiative will be located at Fort Detrick.
Center for
Automated Language and Cultural Analysis for Global Security, $2 million to
explore technological approaches to breaking the language and cultural barriers
the U.S.
military encounters every day overseas. The Center will be set at the University of Maryland's Center for Advanced Computer
Studies.
Energetics Science and Technology Workforce Development, $4.5 million at
the Southern Maryland
Energetics Technology Center adjacent to the Indian Head Division, U.S. Naval
Surface Warfare Center. This funding will be used to help train scientists and
engineers in the field of energetics.
Extensible
Launching System, $3 million to better
protect Navy ships from threats from advanced anti-ship cruise missiles.
Fibrin Adhesive
Stat (FAST) Dressing, $3 million to
improve treatment for burns and wounds on the battlefield.
Freeze-Dried Blood
Technology Clinical Research, $2 million
will support research to develop and deploy freeze-dried blood to treat wounded
soldiers on the battlefield and civilians injured in accidents or natural
disasters.
Heavy Duty Hybrid Electric Vehicle, $2.4 million
will help complete vehicle development for the U.S. Air Force. This project is
aimed at reducing dangerous emissions and greatly improving fuel economy.
High Energy Conventional
Energetics, $3.2 million to
target asymmetric threats, such as hardened weapons of mass destruction sites.
This program is managed by the Naval Surface Warfare
Center, Indian Head in Charles County.
Laser-Based
Explosive Detection Technology at Aberdeen
Proving Ground (APG), $4 million will
enhance technology available to military and first responders by improving
sensors with the capability to instantly detect explosive materials at close
contact and/or at a safe range.
Mobile Diabetes
Management, $1.6 million to support the enrollment of 1,000 military
family members and their dependents in an innovative trial utilizing cell
phones to manage and avoid acute episodes of diabetes.
National Consortium for MASINT Research, $3 million
for university research, including at Johns Hopkins
University that will aid
in the development of strategic intelligence for national security.
Naval Ship Hydrodynamic Facilities
at the Carderock Naval Surface
Warfare Center, $4
million to replace and improve ship testing facilities.
Navy Science and
Technology Outreach (N-STAR) - Maryland, $1 million to
extend a successful, project-based, middle school science and engineering
program to Southern Maryland. The program is
designed to focus on increasing and sustaining teacher and student knowledge
and skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and creating
opportunity for STEM career exploration.
Northeast Counterdrug Training Center, $3 million to provide local, state and federal law
enforcement professionals and community anti-drug coalitions with no-cost
training in an 18-state area including Maryland.
Patuxent River Naval Air Station and Wallops Flight
Facility, $4.8 million to complete the
fiber optic data link between the facilities to better meet the need for
digital communications and to support advanced Navy aircraft testing between
the Navy and NASA testing ranges and facilities.
Plus-Up Civil Air Patrol, An additional $1.36
million to maintain the Civil Air Patrol's readiness to support disaster
relief, community service missions, search and rescue, youth leadership
development and homeland security initiatives around the country and in
Maryland.
Recombinant BChE
Formulation Program, $1.6 million will
support the development of a medical countermeasure to protect military
personnel and civilians against nerve agent exposure.
Repair of Massive
Tissue Loss and Amputation through Composite Tissue Allotransplantation, $3.2 million for an initiative at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore, to develop new techniques capable of repairing massive
tissue losses and amputations in military and civilian patients.
Scalable Topside
Array Radar (STAR) Demonstrator,
$800,000 to build a STAR Demonstrator, which could reduce the cost and risk of
next generation surface ship radar systems.
Shadow Tactical
Unmanned Aerial System (TUAS) Flight, $4
million will support efforts to design, develop and demonstrate a more capable
Detect, Sense and Avoid (DSA) system for safe flight and navigation in domestic
U.S.
airspace.
Special Operations
Forces Test Environment for Team Collaboration Missions, $2 million to enhance the value of Special Operations
training by employing advanced technologies at the Pax River Naval Air Systems
Command's Advanced
Maritime Technology
Center to assess how
training exercises can take advantage of cutting edge network-centric warfare
principles.
Sure
Trak Re-Architecture and Sensor Augmentation,
$2 million to support the
redesign and improvement of tracking software in use at Patuxent River Naval
Air Station and allow for the placement of additional security sensors.
FY09 Military
Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations
Air National Guard
Fire Station at Martin State Airport, $7.9 million to construct a
new fire station at the Martin
State Airport.
Andrews Air Force Base, $77.6 million to relocate non BRAC
military personnel to administrative
facilities.
Army National Guard
Facility Readiness
Center, $579,000 for additions and alterations in Dundalk.
Army National Guard Readiness
Center, $9.8 million to upgrade a training facility for Maryland's
National Guardsman in Salisbury.
Aviation Support Facility, $28 million for the Army National Guard at Weide Army
Airfield in Edgewood.
Carderock Naval
Surface Warfare
Center, $7 million for a research development
technology and engineering support facility.
Maryland Army Reserve, $11.6 million for
upgrades to support training for Reservists in Baltimore.
National
Maritime Intelligence
Center, $12.4
million to continue construction in Suitland.
South Campus Utility Plant, $31 million for
the National Security Agency at Fort
Meade.
Energetics Lab Complex,
$12 million for initial construction at the Naval Surface
Warfare Center
at Indian Head in Charles
County. Once completed,
the Energetics Lab Complex will be used to support rapid development of new
weapons technologies.
Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrades, $13.9 million for
the Naval Surface
Warfare Center
at Indian Head in Charles
County.
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, $23.7 million for the institute at the Aberdeen Proving
Ground in Harford
County.
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases, $209 million for continued
construction at Fort
Detrick.
All other appropriations bills determining discretionary
spending will operate at FY08 funding levels until March 6, 2009 pursuant to a
continuing resolution signed by the President on September 30, 2008.
The following Maryland
projects requested by Senator Cardin are included in the Fiscal Year 2009 Bills
that have been approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee. None has yet been
considered on the Senate floor. Before these bills can become law, they must be
approved by the full Senate, reconciled with any differences in companion House
bills, and signed into law by the President. Final passage and approval by the President
will likely happen in the first quarter of 2009.
FY09 Agriculture, Rural Development and
Related Agencies
Frostburg State
University and University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, $500,000, Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies,
an effort to conserve native plants and foster economic growth in the region
through the managed development of the area's natural resources.
USDA Beltsville
Agricultural Research
Center, $8.4 million to restore the proposed
cuts in the President's budget for the Animal Biosciences and Biotechnology
Laboratory.
USDA Beltsville
Agricultural Research
Center, $4 million to restore the proposed
cuts in the President's budget for the National Agricultural Library.
USDA Beltsville
Agricultural Research
Center, $3.2 million to restore the proposed
cuts in the President's budget for high priority research projects at BARC.
USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research
Center, $2 million to restore the proposed cuts in the
President's budget for the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.
USDA Chesapeake
Bay Watershed Program, $23 million in
uncapped mandatory funds to implement conservation activities on agricultural
lands in the Chesapeake Bay watershed for the
purpose of improving water quality.
FY09 Commerce, Justice, and Science
Appropriations
Baltimore County, $1,500,000, for technology upgrades to the Emergency Communications
Center in Towson.
City of Baltimore Police Department, $1,100,000, for a gun violence reduction initiative.
Coppin
State University/Towson University/University of Maryland Biotechnology
Institute, $1,000,000, for the Baltimore Excellence in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Teacher Partnership.
Eastern Shore of
Maryland Education Consortium, $250,000,
to expand a dropout prevention program utilizing a web-based curriculum.
Harford County, $365,000, for interoperability equipment technology
upgrades.
Maryland
Department of Natural Resources, $20,000,000,
Blue Crab emergency assistance for watermen and the processing industry.
Maryland State
Police, $500,000, for the First
Responder Radio Interoperability Project, a statewide interoperable
communications system.
Morgan State
University, $3,000,000, for the
Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium, a partnership of Morgan State
University, University
of Maryland Eastern Shore and Bowie State
University for continued
aviation safety research and development.
National
Federation of the Blind, $600,000, for
an initiative to enhance the participation of Blind youth in Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics careers.
NOAA: B-WET
Programs, $9,700,000 to fund grant
awards for K-12 environmental education programs nationally, including those
with a special focus on the Chesapeake Bay.
NOAA: Chesapeake
Bay Office, $500,000 for the Chesapeake Bay network of environmental observation
platforms.
NOAA: Chesapeake
Bay Studies (Annapolis & Oxford, MD and two VA locations), $3,500,000, to support the continuation of community watershed
grants; ecosystem-based fisheries management; development of the Chesapeake
Observing System; and other activities.
NOAA: Oyster
Restorations Programs in Maryland and Virginia, $4,600,000, for restoration of oyster habitat and
oyster reefs and planting disease-free oysters.
NOAA and the State
of Maryland, $5,000,000, to fund
operations at the joint NOAA/Maryland Department of Natural Resources Cooperative
Oxford Laboratory for Chesapeake Bay fisheries and ecosystem studies.
Northwest Citizens
Patrol, $150,000, for information
technology systems upgrades to enhance public safety efforts in Baltimore.
University of Baltimore, $500,000, for expansion of the Center for Children and
Courts early intervention program for truant public school students in six
school districts.
University of
Maryland, $1,000,000, for the Earth
System Science interdisciplinary center Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies.
University of
Maryland, $2,000,000, for research and
development into ultrafast dynamics for next generation nanotechnology.
University of
Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, $2,000,000, for the replacement of the environmental
information center destroyed by fire in 2007.
FY09 Energy and Water Appropriations
Army Corps of
Engineers, $983,000, for preconstruction engineering and design of
the Mid-Chesapeake
Bay Islands
(James and Barren) dredge placement and environmental restoration project.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $1,000,000, for the feasibility study and early design
for the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge wetlands restoration project.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $12,000,000, for use of 40 million cubic yards of dredged
materials from the approach channels of the Baltimore Harbor
and Channels Navigation Project to restore 1,140 acres of remote island
habitat.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $200,000, to rebuild and re-water 1.2 miles of the
historic C&O Canal terminus in Cumberland as an essential component of the
Potomac Riverfront historical preservation effort.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $400,000, to develop a comprehensive restoration plan for
the Anacostia River and its tributaries.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $1,900,000, to continue the restoration of the beach at
Assateague Island National Seashore.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $2,000,000, for Chesapeake Bay
native oyster restoration projects, including construction of sanctuary reefs.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $2,5000,000, for the Chesapeake
Bay Environmental Restoration and Protection Program, including wastewater
treatment plant construction in Ewell,
Maryland.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $200,000 for the continuing activities of providing
shoreline protection for the Atlantic Coast of Maryland.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $200,000, to resume the feasibility study of removing
sediment from behind the Conowingo Reservoir.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $16,193,000, for operation and maintenance of the Federal
Navigation Channels for the Baltimore District.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $250,000, to investigate the innovative reuse of dredged
materials and flood damage reduction in the Patapsco and Back River watersheds
in Baltimore.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $450,000, for maintenance dredging of the Ocean City
Harbor and Inlet.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $500,000, for the Herring Bay
and Rockhold Creek navigation channel.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $200,000, for a feasibility study on small-scale
shoreline protection techniques.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $338,000, for collection and removal of drift materials
from Baltimore Harbor.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $500,000, for the Parish Creek (Anne Arundel
County) navigation channel
project.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $500,000, for the Honga River/Tar Bay Federal Navigation
Channel project.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $30,000, for the Anacostia River
and Tributaries Phase III project.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $300,000, for a feasibility study to manage the Susquehanna River during extremely low flow periods.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $1,000,000, for large-scale restoration of underwater Chesapeake Bay grasses, which are essential for Bay
health and as nursery areas for numerous species including blue crabs.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $135,000, for the Federal Navigation Channel at Twitch
Cove and Big Thorofare
River.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $1,400,000, for maintenance dredging of the Wicomico River.
Army Corps of
Engineers, $14,065,000, for maintenance dredging of the C&D Canal.
Baltimore City, $500,000, for rehabilitating the sanitary sewer system
along Dead Run and Maidens Choice Run areas of the Gwynns Falls.
Maryland
Department of Natural Resources, $500,000,
to enhance navigation and protect valuable shoreline in the Rhodes Point area
of Smith Island.
Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission, $600,000, for a pilot program
to determine the feasibility of adding anaerobic digestion to serve as the fuel
source for combined heat power (CHP) units to generate electricity to power two
sewage treatment plants.
FY09 Financial Services and General
Government Appropriations
National
Historical Publication and Records Commission, $10,500,000,
for national grants program and essential staffing and administration.
Prince George's Small Business Trade Assistance Office, $100,000, to
develop an office that will promote opportunities for Prince
George's County businesses to trade with partners in Africa.
White Oak FDA Consolidation, $204,404,000, for the initial construction
of the CBER Lab and other facilities as part of the on-going US Food and Drug
Administration consolidation at White Oak.
FY09 Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations
City of Baltimore, $1,250,000, to support Youth Works, a summer jobs
program for underserved youth.
Healthcare for the
Homeless, $1,250,000, for the
construction of a new facility to provide additional healthcare resources to Baltimore's homeless
population.
Joseph Richey
House, $750,000, for the construction of
Dr. Bob's Place, a hospice providing end-of-life care for children.
Montgomery College, $750,000, for biotech laboratory equipment.
Prince George's
County, $500,000, for equipment to
provide comprehensive dental services to uninsured and underinsured elementary
school-aged children.
Roberta's House, $300,000, to provide grief support and mental health
services for children and families in Baltimore.
Towson University, $500,000, for the Center for Adults with Autism
Spectrum Disorders, providing support and resources addressing the needs of the
population effected by ASD.
University of
Maryland, $1,000,000, to develop and
administer a public service fellowship program.
FY09 Economic Development
Initiatives-Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations
Colmar Manor
Community Center, $300,000, to fund a
Community Center that will support Colmar Manor and the other Port Towns of
Cottage City, Edmonston and Bladensburg.
Howard County, $400,000, for
community facilities and accessible homes for seniors.
MAC Area Agency on
Aging, $400,000, for construction of the
Salisbury-Wicomico Senior Services and Wellness Center.
Maryland
Department of Natural Resources,
$500,000, for the design and construction of the Harriet Tubman Underground
Railroad Park Visitors Center in Dorchester
County.
Maryland Department
of Transportation, $2,000,000, for the statewide
bus and bus facilities program, including the construction of a new facility to
replace the Kirk Bus Division building in Baltimore
and the purchase of additional hybrid buses.
Maryland
Department of Transportation American, $15,000,000, for MARC capacity improvements with the
near-term goal of adding 4,000 seats to the existing 27,000 seat inventory by
2010.
Maryland
Department of Transportation, $500,000, for planning,
conceptual design, environmental review, and preliminary engineering for a MARC
rail storage and maintenance facility in Aberdeen.
Maryland
Department of Transportation, $3,000,000, for BRAC-related
improvements in Anne Arundel County
in the vicinity of Ft.
Meade.
Maryland Department
of Transportation, $3,000,000, for BRAC-related
improvements in Harford
County in the vicinity of
the Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Maryland
Department of Transportation, $3,000,000, for BRAC-related
improvements in Montgomery County in the vicinity of the National
Naval Medical
Center, Bethesda
(Walter Reed
National Military
Medical Center
at Bethesda).
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