Funding Requests 2010

Highway Reauthorization

1.) Lincoln/Byers Blvd. 

• Construct connection of Lincoln Blvd. from Reno Ave. south to Lincoln Blvd. Just north of the Oklahoma River
• Requested Amount:  $16,000,000

2.) I-40/I-35/I-235 Ingress/Egress

• Tear down the existing I-40 bridge, which is being replaced and realigned through the I-40 Crosstown project, and construct an at-grade boulevard along the existing alignment.
• Requested Amount:  $30,000,000

3.) Edmond/OKC At Grade RR Xing

• Construct an overpass on Kelley Avenue in Oklahoma City to remove the current at-grade crossing of this street with the BNSF Railway located approximately 1/2 mile north of the intersection of US-77 and Memorial Road. This project is important to developing an industrial center between Edmond and OKC.  This at grade crossing would be an attractive route to and from Edmond for freight trucks.  This would offer both efficient travel and also logistical incentives to develop local distribution centers in Edmond.  The total cost of this project is 20 million.  The requested 16 million will get the project to the required 80% fully funded.
• Requested Amount:  $16,000,000

4.) Tecumseh Gordon Cooper Drive

• Plan, conduct environmental review, design, acquire right-of-way and widen Old SH-18/Gordon Cooper Drive from Bob Crouch Street north 1.5 miles in Tecumseh; Pottawatomie County, OK. The funding will fully fund the widening of this project which would have economic benefits for both Tecumseh and Shawnee by connecting their business districts with safer and more efficient travel.
• Requested Amount:  $4,200,000

5.) Shawnee Kickapoo

• Projects consists of complete reconstruction of an existing 3-lane arterial roadway to an improved 4-lane arterial roadway improvement for 1 ¼ miles from the intersection of Kickapoo & MacArthur (SH3E) to the intersection of Kickapoo & Kickapoo Spur (US270B), with improved geometrics and signalization at the intersections with MacArthur, University Drive, Federal, Independence, and the Kickapoo Spur. 
• Requested Amount:  $2,700,000

Commerce, Science, and Justice Subcommittee

• OK DEPT OF PUBLIC SAFETY – STATEWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma Department of Public Safety
3600 Martin Luther King; Oklahoma City, OK 73136

Amount Requested FY2010: $2,000,000.00
 
Oklahoma Department of Public Safety is requesting assistance to continue the replacement of the state’s aging communication system and to provide comprehensive radio and data communications capabilities for all emergency response agency units in Oklahoma.  The current communications capabilities of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies are inadequate, antiquated, and unsafe.  Units cannot effectively share information with each other or with other agencies. A statewide 800-megahertz communications system was approved in 1982, but has never been completed because of budget constraints.  Nationally, 18 other states already have such a statewide communications system in place or are in the process of completing such a system. A statewide public safety communications system will close a potentially dangerous gap in state, local, and national law enforcement.  A new system will create a safer environment for law enforcement officers, other first responders, and all Oklahomans.     

• REI Women and Veteran’s Business Resource Center at Seminole State College

Organization/Institution: Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma Inc.
 2912 Enterprise Blvd., Durant, OK 74702

Amount Requested FY2010: $1,000,000

Funding will go to assist with expanding REI’s Women’s Business Center Program at Seminole State College, to include the growing Veteran population within the region.  Sustainability of the REI’s Business Resource Center, will allow the organization to continue to assist Oklahoma's enterprising women and now Veteran-entrepreneurs in need of business assistance.  According to the 2000 Census, more than 217,992 Veterans live within a 75 mile radius of Chandler, Oklahoma.  Chandler is approximately 35 miles from Seminole State College.  It is estimated that 130,000 Veterans would be serviced through REI’s Business Resource Center at Seminole State College. 

The Business Resource Center provides a wide-range of business services within the 6 county regions (Seminole, Pottawatomie, Hughes, Okfuskee, Lincoln and Pontotoc) and beyond. REI is credited with training more than 162 women entrepreneurs and sponsoring 13 Women’s Business Connection workshops through this program.  The organization also manages business incubators in 33 communities across the state of Oklahoma, and continues to receive requests from communities for assistance in developing and managing business incubators.  The incubator projects are funded through several local, federal and state programs.  Overall, funds are provided through federal allocations and state and local matching funds.

• National Weather Radar Test bed – Phased Array Radar

Organization/institution: University of Oklahoma
100 E. Boyd Street Norman, Ok 73109

Amount Requested FY2010: $10,000,000.00

NOAA is supporting research and development for forecasting advanced warning detection of tornadoes, and other forms of severe weather, at the National Severe Storms Labs (NSSL) in Norman, OK. A “National Weather Radar Testbed” is in operation for a Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) that has already proven capabilities for almost doubling the tornado lead time for warnings and for tracking aircraft surveillance. A Joint Action Group of Federal departments and agencies, coordinated by NOAA’s Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM) has indicated great potential for MPAR technology and to upgrade existing radar systems, especially the 20 year old NEXRAD (WSR-88) network.

The Phased Array Radar research, with its multi-function applications, will allow a potential savings to the taxpayer of $2 billion in acquisition costs and an additional $3 billion in operations and maintenance costs over a 30-year period by utilizing one multi-function radar network that can provide the same coverage available today from several weather and aircraft surveillance networks, but with 40% fewer radars.

Money will be used to start the design of adding dual polarization capability to the phased array radar (PAR).  Design aircraft tracking enhancements (FAA) by developing a track processor to allow multifunctional use of the radar.  Collect and analyze data for assessing the simultaneous capability to track aircraft and perform weather surveillance.  Analyze and report on the intercomparison of PAR with small, low powered radar systems. 

Design method to assimilate PAR data into forecast models.  Research and develop advanced manufacturing techniques to reduce the cost of the radar, leveraging on the research the Office of Naval Research has performed through the Dual Use Science and Technology (DUST) program.  Build a small, first prototype, inexpensive phased array module as both a PAR proof-of-concept and a CASA exploratory project.

• Central Oklahoma University/State of Oklahoma Forensic Laboratory Program Enhanced DNA Analysis Training for Law Enforcement Professionals

Organization/Institution: University of Central Oklahoma
100 N. University Drive, Edmond, OK  73034

Amount Requested FY2010: $300,000

The University of Central Oklahoma combined with the new $35 million Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Forensic Institution has established a major forensic education/laboratory program serving the entire southwest.  The Program has been expanded to 48 graduates a year.  This funding will utilize new laboratory infrastructure and equipment to significantly expand the services available to the training programs and to state and local law enforcement officers. 

Energy and Water Subcommittee

• Statewide Comprehensive Water Plan

Organization/ Institution:  Oklahoma Water Resources Board
3800 N. Classen Blvd., OKC, OK  73118

Amount Requested:  $2,300,000.00

Multi-year study to provide technical assistance to the state of Oklahoma in updating the Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan. The OWRB envisions that, combined with federal cost-shared funds, the OWRB could work with local water suppliers in evaluating their system conditions, long-term needs, and develop a strategy to meet their needs over a 50-year time horizon. The plan would also address the long-term needs of other water use sectors.   

• Planning Assistance to States Program, Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan
Organization/ Institution:  Oklahoma Water Resources Board
3800 N. Classen Blvd., OKC, OK  73118

Amount Requested:  $500,000.00

Multi-year study to provide technical assistance to the state of Oklahoma in updating the Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan. The OWRB envisions that, combined with federal cost-shared funds, the OWRB could work with local water suppliers in evaluating their system conditions, long-term needs, and develop a strategy to meet their needs over a 50-year time horizon. The plan would also address the long-term needs of other water use sectors.

Interior and Environment

• Clean Water State Revolving Fund
Organization/ Institution:  Oklahoma Water Resources Board
3800 N. Classen Blvd., OKC, OK  73118

Amount Requested: $10,700,000
The CWSRF program funds low interest financing to Oklahoma cities and rural water districts for water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

• American Indian Chronic Disease Prevention and Treatment Technical Assistance Center

Organization/Institution: University of Oklahoma
505C Dale Hall Tower, 455 W. Lindsey, Norman, Oklahoma 73019

Amount Requested FY2010: $2,889,000.00

This project will build infrastructure to assist Oklahoma’s tribal health systems and Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities in (1) designing and evaluating interventions to prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer, (2) training primary prevention staff, (3) offering continuing education to health professionals, (4) providing American Indian patients with more cost-effective and timely sub-specialty care and clinical trials enrollment, and (5) piloting the use of home telehealth with American Indian diabetes and heart disease patients to improve outcomes and reduce the need for and costs of clinical interventions.  The project will fund construction costs to house the technical assistance center in the new OUCI building (finishing out shell space) or the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center (remodeling existing space), build out existing telemedicine and telehealth  infrastructure at OUHSC and tribal/IHS facilities, and employ technical assistance center staff.

• Federal Match of Nonfederal Funds - Oklahoma City National Memorial

Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation
620 N. Harvey Avenue Oklahoma City OK 73102

Amount Requested:  $2,000,000.00

This is the final installment of a $5 million congressional authorization of which $3 million was appropriated in Pub. L. 108-447 enacted 12/8/04 (H.R. 4818) for FY 2005, leaving the requested $2 million outstanding from the amount previously authorized but not yet appropriated by Congress. 

The $5 million authorization for the present request was passed by Congress in H.R. 2673 and signed into law January 23, 2004, which amended Pub. L. 105-58 to match non-federal funds raised / received by the Foundation for a permanent endowment.  The purpose of the endowment is to ensure the financial stability of the Foundation for future operation and maintenance of the Memorial and Museum and to execute outreach and educational programs.

Labor, HHS, Education

• Proton Cancer Therapy Research and Education Center

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078

Amount Requested FY2010: $5,000,000

Oklahoma State University and ProCure Treatment Centers Inc. have formed a public-private partnership for training, education and research in proton therapy for the treatment of cancer. In many situations cancer treatment by means of precisely directed beams of energetic protons is the most effective therapeutic alternative to more traditional surgical and radiation cancer treatment procedures. ProCure is currently completing construction of a multi-million dollar, proton treatment facility in Oklahoma City, dedicated to the treatment of cancer. It will allow access to world-leading technology for patients in the central region of the United States and is the first of several such centers planned by ProCure throughout the country in the coming years. We propose to place Oklahoma at the forefront of proton cancer treatment by establishing a world-class, research and education center at OSU, in partnership with ProCure, in order to train accredited personnel in this next-generation cancer treatment modality.  Scientists at the world-renowned Radiation Physics Laboratory at OSU have been conducting research in the characterization and monitoring of proton beams used in cancer therapy for over fifteen years. The OSU group has recently teamed with ProCure to establish a research and training program at OSU. The requested federal funding will build from the existing private funding to establish a leading national center of excellence.

Establishing a proton therapy center in the middle of Oklahoma will be of tremendous benefit to the citizens of this state and surrounding states. There are estimated to be over 250,000 cancer patients nationwide, and over 3,000 each year in a 250 mile radius of Oklahoma City, many of whom can benefit from proton radiation therapy.

• Oklahoma State Health Information Technologies, Mobile Clinic, and Medical Response System

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma State University – Center for Health Systems:
1111 West 17th Street; Tulsa OK 74107

Amount Requested FY2010: $5,500,000

This project seeks to do two things: 1) expand and enhance the OSU Center for Health Science’s health information technology system, including its telemedicine and distance learning as well as electronic medical records network, and 2) bring diagnostic and medical services to geographic regions in Oklahoma where even telemedicine is not yet feasible or reasonably located by use of a mobile clinic. The mobile clinics will be available to provide medical services in response to natural or manmade disasters.

• Operation Servicemen Success

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma City Community College
7777 South May Ave., OKC, OK 73150

Amount Requested FY2010: $200,000

In anticipation of the need to provide enhanced services for the predicted increase in service members attending OCCC, a full time Coordinator of Veterans Services position was established this year.  Additional personnel to support this special population licensed professional counselor, career advisors, clerical support, and tutoring services.

Expansion of services for service members enrolled in classes at OCCC should be promoted to these students by the Veterans Services Office functioning as a centralized source of information and referral. Information, services, and referral should include but is not limited to:  readjustment counseling; academic assessment and remediation (if needed); academic advising and development of an individualized education plan; review of veteran benefits; career counseling; workshops; networking; and an opportunity to have the same level of camaraderie that is experienced in the military. 

To succeed in college, it is critical that veterans have a successful transition from the military into campus life.  The aim of this program is to provide intensive transitional and support services for military veterans as many veterans have a difficult time readjusting to civilian life and translating their military service into applicable college and career goals.  We would provide enhanced and specialized support services to military veteran students from the time they commit to attending the OCCC through the end of their education with us and beyond. 

Transportation, HUD

• Metrology and Manufacturing for Aerospace

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma University
202 West Boyd St, Norman, OK 73019

Amount Requested FY2010: $1,700,000

This project addresses aerospace industry needs in design, reverse engineering, rapid manufacturing, precision product measurement, and materials analysis. We have assembled a very strong team of researchers within OU and other universities within the state providing critical expertise in several areas of shape engineering and precision manufacturing. We are connected with several industries, both small and large, to empower them while bidding on competitive proposals. We have obtained grants from the NSF, US Air Force and the State of Oklahoma for building our state-of the- art research program. We are building an advanced laboratory for focused research that will transform Oklahoma into the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) capital of the world for commercial and military aircraft. We intend to use the funds to purchase several cutting edge pieces of equipment, largely unavailable to aerospace. These include industrial CT scanner, 3-D printer and Electron Beam Melting Machine. Their calibration and maintenance, and special requirements are also included.

• Bus Facility Renovation

Organization/Institution Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority
300 SW 7th Street Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73109

Amount Requested $1,100,000.00

Repair /replace water cooling tower and correct drainage problems at historic Union Station.  Improve the lighting and exhaust systems at the maintenance garage and upgrade the oil and lube room facilities.

• Oklahoma Public Safety Communications

Organization/Institution:  Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security
3600 Martin Luther King Blvd Oklahoma City, OK 73136

Amount Requested:  $15,000,000.00

Continue the build out of a statewide interoperable public safety communication system.  This continued investment would provide communications for first responders along state and federal highway corridors: I-40 ; I-35; Hwy 412 ; Hwy 283; Hwy 81; Hwy 99; Hwy 75; Hwy 69.  Inclusion of language specifically dealing with interoperable communications was inserted in the last highway bill to ensure first responders and transportation safety officials have the necessary level of interoperable communications capability, they will be able to respond to highway incidents more quickly and effectively, thereby satisfying two of the main objectives of the Highway Bill -- reducing death and injury as well as the amount of time vehicles are idling in traffic clogging congestion. 

• Construct the Lincoln/Byers connection for the I-40 Crosstown Expressway in downtown Oklahoma City

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma Department of Transportation
 200 NE 21st Street, Oklahoma City, OK, 73105

Amount Requested FY2010: $15,000,000.00

I-40: Construct the Lincoln/Byers connection for the I-40 Crosstown Expressway in downtown Oklahoma City.
This project is separate from the current I-40 Crosstown project and will re-connect the facilities in effort to enhance local traffic and future development within the area.

Defense

• F-16 Block 42 Engine Upgrade

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma National Guard
3501 Military Circle, Oklahoma City, OK

Amount Requested FY2010: $75,600,000

Upgrade the engines of Block 42 F-16s in the Oklahoma and Ohio National Guard units with F100-PW-229 engines The total engine upgrade program includes 48 engine installs and 9 spares and will provide immediate improved combat capabilities to Block 42 units.  It is my understanding that the engine upgrade provides a cost-effective method of upgrading fighter performance at a tiny fraction of the cost of new aircraft and provides the F-16 Block 42 with a 20% improvement in thrust, with improved durability, reliability and survivability; speed and maneuver. 

• Oklahoma National Guard Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles and Trailers

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma National Guard
3501 Military Circle, Oklahoma City, OK

Amount Requested FY2010: $53,900,000

Provide the Oklahoma National Guard (OKNG) with the required Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles.  Currently, the OKNG only has 40% of the required vehicles and 20% of the required trailers.  It is my understanding that the funding for this project would being the OKNG to 100% on Medium Tactical Vehicles and Trailers to allow the OKNG to conduct the necessary training and effectively respond to national or state emergency situations.

• OverSite WMD Multi-Sensor Response and Infrastructure Project System

Organization/Institution: Triarii Scientific, LLC
7118 South Colombia Place, Tulsa, OK 74136

Amount Requested FY2010: $7,000,000

Provide the Oklahoma National Guard (OKNG)’s 63rd Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Civil Support Team (CST) with the detection and analysis capability and a fully integrated and functional set of equipment that would provide command control, wireless communications, and a system of sensors to allow OKNG to detect and respond to WMD and terrorist situations. 

• Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System Enhancements

Organization/Institution: Creative Technologies
6255 W. Sunset Boulevard, Suite 716, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Amount Requested FY2010: $2,500,000

Provide an enhancement upgrade to the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System (JFETS) located in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  It is my understanding that this enhancement will allow eight students to participate in call for fire training sessions under one teacher at any given time, providing an 800% increase in efficiency.  

• Advanced Autonomous Robotic Inspections for Aging Aircraft

Organization/Institution: Veracity Technology Solutions, LLC
2701 Liberty Parkway, Suite 311Midwest City, OK 73110

Amount Requested FY2010: $2,000,000

Funding for this request will be used to deploy advance non-destructive inspective equipment and techniques for the inspection of aging military aircraft.  The inspection equipment will provide the military with the ability to conduct comprehensive, digital inspections to improve maintenance accuracy, speed, and cost. 

• E-6B Strategic Communications Upgrade Block 1A (VLF-TX & HPTS)

Organization/Institution: Rockwell Collins
400 Collins Road, Cedar Rapids, IA 52498

Amount Requested FY2010: $4,000,000

This upgrade will provide for the modification of a Very Low Frequency Transmitter (VLF-TX) obsolescence requirement, in addition to the High Power Transmit Set (HPTS) subsystem.  These upgrades are critical to the E-6B execution of the TACAMO mission located at Tinker AFB and provide communications to the nation’s strategic ballistic missile submarine force as a part of the Minimum Essential Emergency Communication Network (MEECN). 

• Rehabilitation and Technology Transition Center

Organization/Institution: OrthoCare Innovations Foundation
800 Research Parkway Suite 395, Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Amount Requested FY2010: $10,000,000

This funding would transition prosthetics technology that has been developed through DARPA’s $70 million R&D program to clinical practice to improve amputee patient care. Commercialization of this technology would be essential to military and veteran amputees, especially those from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

• Oklahoma Unmanned Systems Alliance (OK-USA)

Organization/Institution: Oklahoma State University – Stillwater
Stillwater, OK

Amount Requested FY2010: $1,800,000

This funding will be used for research personnel, equipment, and support for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) research for both Small/Micro UAV’s and long-endurance and long-rang UAV’s.  This is a joint request from both Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma. 

• FIDO Explosive Detector

Organization/Institution:  ICx Nomadics
1024 S. Innovation Way, Stillwater, OK 74074

Amount Requested: $7,000,000

This funding will be used to provide soldiers with the capability to identify and interdict both explosive devices and those who manufacture these devices by detecting explosive vapors and residues. 

Military Construction

•  Construction of two T-9 Engine Test Cells at Tinker AFB

Organization/Institution:  Tinker Air Force Base

3001 Staff Drive, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma 73145-3306

Amount Requested: $5,150,000

Project Description:  This project would fund the construction of foundations and supporting facilities for two T-9 noise suppression systems at Tinker AFB.  This project would consist of the construction of reinforced concrete footings and slabs capable of supporting T-9 style engine testing facilities, a 20,000 gallon jet engine fuel storage and delivery system, utilities, access driveways, and a small office/restroom/break facility.  These T-9 pads in conjunction with the subsequent T-9 Engine Test Facility (equipment) will allow contiguous support of military jet engine repair performed at Tinker Aerospace Complex (TAC).  This will allow the 76th Maintenance Wing and the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group the capabilities to meet its mission of delivering engines on time and on cost.

Financial Services

• Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation

620 N. Harvey Avenue Oklahoma City OK 73102

Amount Requested: $2,000,000.00

This is the final installment of a $5 million congressional authorization of which $3 million was appropriated in Pub. L. 108-447 enacted 12/8/04 (H.R. 4818) for FY 2005, leaving the requested $2 million outstanding from the amount previously authorized but not yet appropriated by Congress.

The $5 million authorization for the present request was passed by Congress in H.R. 2673 and signed into law January 23, 2004, which amended Pub. L. 105-58 to match non-federal funds raised / received by the Foundation for a permanent endowment. The purpose of the endowment is to ensure the financial stability of the Foundation for future operation and maintenance of the Memorial and Museum and to execute outreach and educational programs.

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