Senators Stabenow, Levin Announce Funding for Michigan Initiatives in Energy and Water Appropriations Bill

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Carl Levin (D-MI) today announced that the Senate has approved the Fiscal Year 2004 Energy and Water appropriations bill, which contains millions in funding for initiatives to maintain, rehabilitate and restore Michigan waterways and coastlines and make improvements to municipal sewer and water infrastructure. The measure, one of 13 annual appropriations bills required to fund the federal government, has now been approved by both the House and Senate and heads to President Bush for his signature.

"This legislation includes funding that is essential to our Great Lakes environment and economy, including building a new Poe-sized at the Soo Locks and cleaning up contaminated sites," Stabenow said. "This bill will also help the areas in the Upper Peninsula recover from last spring's devastating floods, keep our harbors open, develop key waterfronts like the Detroit River, and protect the lakes from invasive intruders like the Asian carp. This is an important funding bill for Michigan."

"I am pleased that Michigan's communities and environment will benefit from the vital projects in this legislation," said Levin. "The areas in the Upper Peninsula that were severely affected last May from flooding will be receiving aid to help rebuild their communities. The funding provided will also help maintain Great Lakes water quality and will help communities across Michigan plan, monitor and restore local waterways and sewage systems."

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General
· $1 million for Great Lakes Remedial Action Plan
· $2 million for Michigan Biotechnology Initiative
· $1 million for the Lansing Community College Alternative Energy Center
· $300,000 for the Saginaw Chippewa Wind Energy Development Project
· $750,000 for Michigan Research Institute Life Science Research
· $1 million for Michigan Technology Center for Nanostructure and Light Weight Materials

Operations and Maintenance
· $300,000 for Corp of Engineers maintenance dredging at Saugatuck Harbor
· $15 million for extraordinary maintenance by Corp of Engineers. Storm damage remediation in Michigan, Missouri, West Virginia, and other states. This funding may be used to aid counties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula struck by flooding in May 2003.

General Investigation
· $100,000 for Detroit River Master Plan
· $131,000 for John Glenn Great Lakes Basin (Strategic Plan) for MI and IL
· $45,000 for John Glenn Great Lakes Basin (biohydrological) for MI and IL
· $300,000 for John Glenn Great Lakes Basin (recreation boating) , MI
· $100,000 for Lansing
· $100,000 for Rouge River Supp Plan
· $25,000 for Rouge River environmental dredging

Planning
· $150,000 for Detroit River Seawalls
· $100,000 for Muskegon Lake environmental dredging

Construction General
· $800,000 for Genesee County MI (wastewater infrastructure assistance)
· $200,000 for Negaunee MI (environmental structure)
· $2.5 million for lock replacement at Sault Ste Marie
· $388,000 for Twelve Towns (George W. Kuhn Drain Retention Treatment

Operation and Harbor Maintenance
· Arcadia Harbor: $80,000
· Black River, Port Huron, MI: $16,000
· Bolles Harbor, La Plaisance Creek: $250,000
· Channels in Lake St. Clair: $466,000
· Charlevoix Harbor: $119,000
· Detroit River: $3,458,000
· Frankfort Harbor: $3,112,000
· Grand Haven Harbor: $810,000
· Holland Harbor: $618,000
· Keweenaw Waterway: $428,000
· Leland Harbor: $170,000
· Lexington Harbor: $10,000
· Little Lake Harbor: $208,000
· Ludington Harbor: $946,000
· Manistee Harbor: $227,000
· Marquette, MI: $10,000
· Menominee Harbor: $154,000
· Monroe Harbor: $138,000
· Muskegon Harbor: $21,000
· Ontonagon Harbor: $473,000
· Pentwater Harbor: $170,000
· Port Austin Harbor: $214,000
· Port Sanilac Harbor: $27,000
· Portage Lake Harbor: $1,167,000
· Rouge River: $177,000
· Saginaw River: $2,251,000
· Saugatuck Harbor: $1,203,000
· Sebewaing River (ice jam removal): $7,000
· St. Clair River: $1,565,000
· St. Joseph Harbor: $561,000
· St. Mary=s River: $19,092,000
· Surveillance of Northern Boundary Waters: $2,410,000

Other Great Lakes and miscellaneous projects

· $700,000 for the Great Lakes Fishery & Ecosystem Restoration Program
· $700,000 for the operations of the Dispersal Barrier at the Chicago Ship & Sanitary Canal
· $750,000 for the design of a second Dispersal Barrier at the Chicago Ship & Sanitary Canal
· $100,000 for Environmental Dredging at Muskegon Lake
· $180,000 for Belle Isle Piers
· $720,000 for Secord and Smallwood Lakes
· $300,000 for Lower Rouge River restoration for feasibility study
· $320,000 for Rouge River Oxbow Restoration for feasibility study
· $100,000 for Upper Rouge River restoration for feasibility study
· $300,000 for Ramsay, Bessemer, Township, Gogebic County for planning and design analysis and construction
· $100,000 for planning and design analysis at Sturgeon River, Baraga County
· $75,000 for Luna Pier, MI for feasibility study.
· $100,000 for Detroit River navigation improvements
· $75,000 for Ontonagon Harbor, MI for feasibility study

Energy

· $2,000,000 for the Michigan Biotechnology Initiative
· $1,000,000 for the Lansing Community College Alternative Energy Center;
· $300,000 for the Saginaw Chippewa Wind Energy Development Project
· $750,000 for the Michigan Research Institute life sciences research;
· $1,000,000 for the Michigan Technology Center for Nanostructure and Light Weight Materials;
· $3,000,000 for the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in Ann Arbor to develop advanced manufacturing technologies for renewable energy applications;
· $250,000 for green power technology development at Grand Valley State University;
· $2,500,000 in additional funding in nuclear physics budget line provided for research and development and preconceptual design activities in support of the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA), a proposed Department of Energy research facility at Michigan State University.