TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY

In the interest of transparency, accountability and restoring public trust regarding congressionally directed spending, I have posted below a complete list of every project for which I am seeking funding in fiscal year 2010 federal appropriations legislation.

The projects vary widely, from institutions of higher learning to police departments, from local businesses that supply our troops the equipment they deserve to medical research facilities, from building high speed rail across Upstate New York to the cultural institutions that make our community unique, and many others. The one thing these projects all have in common is that they would bring jobs and lay the foundation for economic development in Western New York.

Although it is likely that we will be able to secure funding for only a handful of these projects, I encourage you to peruse the full list because I believe it represents the potential for long term economic development and building a strong economy in our region.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222-1096. $150,000 for arts education programming. The Gallery would continue and enhance an art education series in which young people, children, and families who otherwise may not be able to afford to attend cultural events are encouraged to do so with by a waiver of the admission fee.

Alleyway Theatre Inc., 1 Curtain Up Alley, Buffalo, NY 14202. $1,500,000 for structural improvements to the Upper West Arts Center. In October 2008, the Upper West Arts Center was listed in the New York State Register of Historic Places and was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. The facility is important to the cultural tourism that is helping to drive economic development in Buffalo. The funding would be used for completion of renovations including roof replacement and installation of fire sprinkler system.

AndroBioSys Inc., 73 High St. Buffalo, NY 14203. $2,000,000 to develop therapeutic agents that treat chemotherapy-resistant prostate cancer cells that make the male hormone causing prostate cancer growth. Prostate cancer will affect 200,000 current members of the United States military, 3.3 million veterans, and will cause 100,000 deaths. While a diagnosis of prostate cancer occurs most commonly in senior leadership, early prostate cancer could be detected in 15% of active personnel.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America, 1275 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, GA 30309. $100,000,000. This is a broad request that will benefit Boys & Girls clubs nationwide including their facilities in Buffalo, Jamestown, Dunkirk, Cheektowaga, Depew, Elma, East Aurora, Eden, Orchard Park, Springville, and Holland. The Boys and Girls Clubs of America connect youth with opportunities for personal growth and achievement. The funding requested would be used to support the work of existing clubs, strengthen nationwide programs, and expand into our most distressed communities, providing children with a safe and productive place outside of school hours.

Buffalo City Mission, 100 E. Tupper Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $1,100,000 for the Renovation of the Buffalo City Mission Men’s Center, which serves homeless men seeking emergency shelter, transitional housing, and rehabilitative services, including long term substance abuse counseling, education, job and life skills training, and healthcare. The expanded facility will provide the tangible economic benefits of providing approximately 45 construction jobs and approximately 10 full-time employment opportunities and retain 40 full-time employees in social service, education, medical, and other services.

Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, 84 Parkside Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14214. $600,000 for Restoration and Enhancement of the Scajaquada Shoreline Trail, Buffalo, NY. The project will provide economic, recreational, environmental and historical significance to this cultural destination and Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park space and landscape in Buffalo. It will provide tremendous benefit to the community by restoring of the 1.8 mile trail that will connect the Niagara River Greenway Trail, comprised of 36 miles of trails from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie along the Niagara River, to the Buffalo Olmsted Parks’ 86 miles of trails and pathways.

Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, 84 Parkside Avenue Buffalo, New York 14214. $750,000 for the Renovation of a Community Building in Cazenovia Park in Buffalo, NY. The Cazenovia Park structure is located in an Olmsted-designed park system that is recognized as a nationally significant cultural, recreational, and historic resource by the Department of Interior. Reconstruction of the historic park building for year-round use including at risk youth education, cultural programming and community events, will generate revenues that will translate into income for local, state, and federal governments through payroll and sales taxes.

Buffalo Sewer Authority, Room 1038 City Hall, 65 Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY 14202. $5,000,000 to rehabilitate digester tanks at BSA's treatment facility to increase production of biproduct methane gas that can replace fossil fuels and electricity usage. This regionalization effort will reduce or eliminate the amount of sludge that participating municipalities will send to landfill, cut their travel time by half or greater because of the distance to the area landfills, and reduce truck emissions. This project will also help the BSA hold down its rates.

Buffalo Sewer Authority, Room 1038 City Hall, 65 Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY 14202. $1,650,000 to replace a 20'' diameter combined sewer with a 48'' combined sewer on Hopkins Street between Amber Street and South Park Avenue. This will help reduce combined sewer overflows.

Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo, NY 14222. $160,000 for maintenance and improvements to the Lake Erie Monitoring and Research Project. This project will help Buffalo State College continue and expand the important research that takes place at its Great Lakes monitoring program. This will allow for enhanced research capabilities in the Great Lakes, their tributaries and watersheds, and will help the College initiate multiple research projects examining the environmental, social, and economic impacts of climate change, invasive species, and contaminates, working in collaboration with other State University of New York institutions, as well as various agencies in both the United States and Canada.

Calspan Corporation, 4455 Genesee Street, Buffalo, NY 14225. $4,220,000 to develop an In-Flight Simulation based training program on critical piloting skills in the regime of upset recovery. Realistic training for the very dynamic and disorienting events that lead to loss of control accidents can not be trained in currently fielded aircraft simulators because these devices do not reproduce the critical accelerations and disorienting motions of the actual events. This program will help teach pilots how to evaluate a never-before-seen situation and maneuver a large transport airplane back to a safe and stable condition.

Calspan Corporation, 4455 Genesee Street, Buffalo, NY 14225. $4,500,000 for the modification of the X-49A VTDP Compound Helicopter Technology Demonstrator to incorporate the Adaptive Digital Automated Pilot Technology (ADAPT) and Supplementary Power Unit (SPU) system. DoD is currently embarking on a $40 Billion major recapitalization program of its existing helicopter fleet, including the H-60, AH-64, Marine Corps H-1, and others, that will extend the service life of these legacy platforms out beyond 2040. DoD is also exploring rotorcraft technologies to address current helicopter limits in speed, range, ceiling, and lift capabilities to more effectively operate at extended distances and in high altitude operating environments. Successful demonstration of the VTDP Compound Helicopter technology will offer the Services the option of inserting this technology into these on going modernization programs as an affordable and timely means of addressing these capability gaps with the existing fleet, and at the same time expands the technology base for the next generation advanced rotorcraft platforms.

Canisius College, 2001 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14208. $2,000,000 for materials and equipment to improve its undergraduate science program. Canisius College is embarking on a consolidation of its science programs into one building and making major investments in materials and equipment. The new science center will include five new interdisciplinary research laboratories in bioinformatics, quantitative sciences, cellular molecular biology, analytical chemistry, and neurosciences. This is builds on past success, as over the past ten years, Canisius has seen the acceptance rates among its undergraduates to professional schools rise to more than 90%.

Carleton Technologies Inc., 10 Cobham Drive, Orchard Park, NY 14127. $3,840,000 to procure approximately 300 Microclimate Cooling Units (MCU) (typically 3 MCUs per tank) and associated hardware and install them in approximately 100 Marine Corps M1 tanks. Use of the MCUs by our troops will significantly reduce soldier thermal heat stress, greatly improve soldier alertness and performance, and reduce resultant soldier injuries and casualties. An Army medical study has demonstrated a soldier work time increase on helicopters from approx 1.0 hours without cooling to in excess of 5 hours with the MCS. Similar results are found on tactical and combat vehicles.

Carwell Products Inc., 2745 Broadway St, Cheektowaga, NY 14227. $3,600,000 for United States Army Reserve (USAR) Mobile Corrosion Prevention and Abatement Program. The USAR has a critical need for corrosion control, in that the Reserve's vehicles and equipment is older, they have a large number of unprotected assets and staffing levels are not sufficient to provide extensive maintenance support for corrosion abatement. This adversely impacts the Reserve's ability to support a proper vehicle maintenance program. An effective corrosion prevention program easily provides a return on investment of at least 10:1.

Carwell Products Inc., 2745 Broadway St, Cheektowaga, NY 14227. $3,600,000 for United States Army National Guard (USARNG) Mobile Corrosion Prevention and Abatement Program. The USARNG has a critical need for corrosion control, in that the Reserve's vehicles and equipment is older, they have a large number of unprotected assets and manning levels are not sufficient to provide extensive maintenance support for corrosion abatement. This adversely impacts the Reserve's ability to support a proper vehicle maintenance program. An effective corrosion prevention program easily provides a return on investment of at least 10:1.

Catholic Health Systems, 2121 Main Street, Seton Professional Building, Suite 300, Buffalo, New York 14214. $500,000 for a project to implement Electronic Health Records at 16 primary care and school based health centers. In an effort to improve the quality and efficiency of health care services at its primary care and school based health centers, Catholic Health Systems (CHS) of Buffalo will purchase hardware, software, and networking technology to move from paper medical records to electronic health records.

Central Referral Service, Inc., 45 Elm Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $200,000 for operation of a health and human services hotline. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember 3 digit telephone number that enables persons with health and human service needs to be connected with the service best able to offer assistance. The service is also invaluable during emergencies, working closely with local emergency service agencies. Funding will ensure sufficient staff are available to help area callers identify and prioritize problems, and to find the service best able to offer assistance.

Chautauqua County, 3 North Erie Street, Mayville, NY, 14757. $5,000,000 to rehabilitate the Conewango Dams. The Small Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments, PL 106-472, authorized funding and technical assistance to rehabilitate aging flood control dams built under the USDA Small Watershed Program. The current hazard classification for Sites 1, 9A, 16, 16A, 19, and 33 are Class C (high) hazard meaning that if the dam should fail for any reason there is a high probability that loss-of-life will occur. Several rehabilitation needs have been identified to meet current NRCS criteria associated with a high and significant hazard sites and to extend the useful life of the structure another 50 or 100 years.

Chautauqua County, Office of the Sheriff, 15 E.Chautauqua Street, P.O. Box 128 Mayville, NY 14757. $500,000 for a methamphetamine use prevention initiative. This initiative would enhance efforts of the Office of the Sheriff in addressing the issue of methamphetamine use, working with community stakeholders in developing innovative strategies raising awareness to at-risk groups of the harms associated with methamphetamine use and also training law enforcement officers on dealing with methamphetamine-related crimes.

Chautauqua County Dunkirk Airport, 1 Aero Drive, Dunkirk, NY 14048. $3,600,000 for construction of a 1,000 foot runway and taxiway extension to Runway 24. The new runway will support economic and business development in Chautauqua County by better accommodating the business jet aircraft that are based at, and fly into, the Airport.

Chautauqua Lake Association, 429 E. Terrace Ave, Lakewood, NY, 14750. $350,000 for the biological control of sub aquatic vegetation such as Eurasian Watermilfoil on Chautauqua Lake, NY.

City of Buffalo, 65 Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY 14202. $1,200,000 for the Pearl Street Traffic Conversion Project. The funding would be used to convert a portion of the existing one-way Pearl Street to a two-way traffic pattern between Marine Drive and Goodell Street. The conversion will yield improvements in both vehicular and pedestrian safety and mobility as well as encourage economic development within Buffalo’s Central Business District.

City of Buffalo, 65 Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY 14202. $200,000 for the Zoological Gardens Historic Preservation. The funding would be used for the replacement of a badly deteriorated roof and restoration of exterior walls for the historic Main Building at the Buffalo Zoological Gardens, one of the nation’s oldest zoos and part of the Olmsted Parks and Parkways Historic District that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The facility is important to the cultural tourism that is helping to drive economic development in Buffalo.

City of Jamestown, NY, 200 East Third Street, Jamestown, NY 14701. $3,500,000 for the rehabilitation of a vacant facility into the Allen Park Community Recreation Center. The project will rehabilitate a vacant, eye-sore structure into a recreational facility that will help stabilize the neighborhood, build upon grass-roots neighborhood and park improvements, provide year-round indoor recreation opportunities and create and expand partnerships between the City of Jamestown and a number of youth-serving agencies in the area.

CUBRC, 4455 Genesee Street, Buffalo, NY 14255. $2,500,000 for a nonintrusive laser-based instrumentation suite to complete the calibration of the LENS XX facility in preparation for its use to support the development of high-energy missile systems being developed by the US Defense Department. Testing in this new facility will provide unique design and performance data a cost of less than 1/10 percent of an equivalent flight test program with significantly less risk.

DRS C3 Buffalo, 485 Cayuga Road, Buffalo, NY 14225. $9,700,000 for upgrades to UMTE systems at Volk Field. The upgrade of the UMTE systems takes advantage of mature electronic warfare threat simulation technology and will result in more realistic training, increased aircrew survivability. As the only threat simulation equipment at Volk Field AFB, the modernization and mobilization of UMTE will provide state-of-the-art capability necessary to train the existing and future advanced aircraft. This project enhances pilots and aircrew survivability in real combat scenarios.

DRS C3 Buffalo, 485 Cayuga Road, Buffalo, NY 14225. $400,000 for upgrades to B-SALTS. Upgraded B-SALTS will be used to conduct essential OT&E on all next generation Missile Warning Systems (MWS) to be fielded by coalition aircraft (DIRCM, LAIRCM, Assault DIRCM, Strike DIRCM, ATIRCM).

D’Youville College, 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201. $2,000,000 for the establishment of a Doctor of Pharmacy Program. To help address the growing shortage of pharmacists in our country, D’Youville College of Buffalo would like to establish a Doctor of Pharmacy Program focusing on community-based practice.

ENrG, 155 Rano St., Suite 300, Buffalo, NY 14207. $1,500,000 to combine a fuel cell with wind turbines and solar panels to generate hydrogen for commercial and consumer markets, thereby using hydrogen as a convenient, clean energy storage medium. This project will help develop new sources of renewable energy that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Erie County Water Authority, 350 Ellicott Square Building, 295 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $825,000 to be used to provide stand-by emergency power generation and infrastructure improvements at various pump stations in ECWA’s service area to guarantee safe drinking water standards and a reliable source of clean, potable drinking water.

Graycliff Conservancy, 6472 Old Lake Shore Road, Box 823, Derby, NY 14214. $2,200,000 for the Restoration of the Graycliff Estate. The funding would be used for capital costs incurred in the completion of restoration of this historic landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, including buildings, grounds and gardens. Preserving this important architectural treasure in the Buffalo community will spur economic development through heritage and cultural tourism.

Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $4,320,000 for salaries, supplies and equipment to be used to identify new antibacterial drug targets and develop novel lead drug compounds with the goal of acquiring effective treatments against the drug and multi-drug resistant bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii. This project will address the recent rapid increase of severe opportunistic post-wound infections in our soldiers caused by Acinetobacter baumannii.

Hilbert College, 5200 South Park Avenue, Hamburg, NY 14075. $750,000 for materials and equipment to improve its science laboratories. To meet scientific literacy standards in the areas of biology and chemistry, Hilbert would convert virtual science labs to “wet” chemistry and biology labs bringing them up to national standards and provide hands-on lab experience for students.

Hispanics United of Buffalo, 254 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14210. $100,000 for job training programming. Hispanics United of Buffalo operates a pre-employment job training program, providing intensive bilingual employment related job readiness training and job coaching and retention services to unemployed and underemployed workers who have not successfully completed traditional education, training, apprenticeship, or employment available in the area.

Honeywell Specialty Materials Facility, 220 Peabody Street, Buffalo, NY 14210. $2,000,000 to hire research personnel, and purchase laboratory supplies and equipment to develop fluorinated solvents that will result in intrinsically safer batteries, with lighter weight, and at lower cost. In addition to being inherently safer, fluorinated solvents will increase the effectiveness of our soldiers by reducing the number of batteries needed, thereby reducing the weight the our troops would have to carry and enabling new weapons systems, such as electric-powered vehicles, to operate on the battlefield.

Jamestown Community College, 525 Falconer Street, P.O. Box 20, Jamestown, NY 14702. $250,000 for a project to improve access to higher education in rural areas. A central part of the college’s mission is to improve access for citizens in rural areas who seek out higher education opportunities. JCC would like to build upon this mission by fully equipping two Distance Learning Interactive Television (ITV) classrooms on the Jamestown and Cattaraugus County campuses, and to upgrade at Distance Learning ITV classroom at the Dunkirk site.

Kaleida Health, 100 High Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $1,000,000 for the construction of a Global Vascular Institute, reconfiguring the cardiac, stroke, and neurovascular clinical programs operated at Buffalo General Hospital and Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital. The new facility would be constructed adjacent to Buffalo General Hospital and is aimed at providing world-class care for patients.
LUVATA Buffalo, 446 Military Rd, Buffalo, NY 14207. $2,800,000 to fund the conversion of touch surfaces in a healthcare facility (surgical work surfaces, bed rails, door and furniture hardware, sinks, etc.) to copper alloy surfaces. Nearly 18,000 members of the U.S. military have been wounded in action while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. According to a recently published article through the Infections Diseases Services of both Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center, individuals with combat-related injuries actually face the greatest risk of infections after their injury, while they are receiving medical treatment in a healthcare setting. Copper has shown to be effective in deactivating both this virulent strain as well as MRSA without additional disinfectants or drugs. Both combat-related and noncombat infections pose serious threats to the success of American military forces by decreasing productivity and forces strength, as well as increasing healthcare costs.

Martin House Restoration Corporation, 617 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14203. $1,000,000 for restoration of Darwin D. Martin House Complex, Buffalo, NY. The Martin House, a National Historic Landmark, is Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important early-career residential work, matched only by Fallingwater more than 30 years later, and is a significant component of Western New York’s cultural tourism industry.

MOOG Inc, Jamison Road, East Aurora, New York, 14052. $4,000,000 to develop an advanced actuation system, a quiet, compact electro-mechanical device using a hypocycloidic gear train that would be an enabling technology for the U.S. Navy, Future Naval Capabilities (FNC). These actuators will provide the Navy with a performance improvement and lifecycle cost advantage compared to today’s hydraulic rotary actuator in its efforts to develop the all-electric ship and submarines. These systems will automate many systems, thus keeping sailors out of harm’s way.

Nanodynamics Energy, Inc., 901 Fuhrmann Blvd, Buffalo, NY, 14203. $2,500,000 for development of an ethanol fueled portable solid oxide fuel cell system technology demonstrator, suitable for providing power to individual soldiers for 72 hour missions. While tests have shown that propane cylinders are not overly hazardous in combat, concern is repeatedly expressed by military users over the effects associated with an enemy bullet penetrating the pressurized propane canister in combat. Given that the system is light weight and uses a non-toxic fuel made from renewable resources it presents an attractive possible solution to providing soldier power and eliminating or reducing the number of toxic batteries discarded on the battlefield.

Nanodynamics Energy, Inc., 901 Fuhrmann Blvd, Buffalo, NY, 14203. $1,500,000 to produce panels and other components specified by Engineer Research and Development Center for field deployment of nanotechnology additives for cement to verify that the system is robust, deployable and effective. The brittleness of the cement can mean that our troops and civilians can be unnecessarily harmed and structures compromised by attacks. In addition, fabricated cement protective barriers needed when a sudden threat arises may take up to 28 days to develop enough strength to be useful. The nano cement additives under development bonds strongly to the cement particles, reinforcement fillers and allow stronger and tougher structures to be developed so that protection is available faster.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York, 12233. $75,000,000 to clean up high-level radioactive waste in at the West Valley Demonstration Project in Western New York.

New York State Department of Transportation, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12232. $608,000 for upgrades to the Bemus-Stow Ferry in Chautauqua County, NY. The grant will fund critically needed upgrades of the historic landings, the historic Bemus-Stow Ferry and associated facilities to restore/preserve a historic monument, enhance tourism and improve boat traffic safety.

New York State Department of Transportation, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12232. $11,196,000 for Rail-Highway Grade Crossing Improvements across the Empire Corridor. The Empire Corridor is a federally designated high sped rail corridor. This request, made jointly with several colleagues from across Upstate New York, would help New York to build a high speed rail line from Buffalo-Niagara across upstate New York. Funds will be used to improve grade crossing safety at selected crossings to facilitate high speed rail on segments of the Empire Service Corridor. Work will include reconfiguration to enhance safety, including improvements such as upgrades to existing warning devices and the installation of channelization devices. This effort would be coordinated by NYSDOT with CSX and Amtrak. This project will enable higher speeds throughout the corridor and would thereby reduce travel times and increase on-time service. Specific projects requested are:
• Empire Corridor West High Speed Rail Improvements in Erie County at mile-post 423.84, Town Line Road, $275,000
• Empire Corridor West High Speed Rail Improvements in Genesee County from mile-post 392.85 through 394.75, $1,100,000
• Empire Corridor West High Speed Rail Improvements in Monroe County from mile-post 376.40 through 380.85, $1,075,000
• Empire Corridor West High Speed Rail Improvements in Monroe County from mile-post 361.36 through 362.25, $1,275,000
• Empire Corridor West High Speed Rail Improvements in Wayne County from mile-post 354.25 through 354.61, $1,150,000
• Empire Corridor West High Speed Rail Improvements in Oneida County from mile-post 262.64 through 263.77, $1,650,000
• Empire Corridor West High Speed Rail Improvements in Montgomery County
• at mile-post 176.93, $600,000

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, 181 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $480,000 for construction of a multi-modal path in the City of Buffalo. The path will enhance and promote activity at Buffalo’s waterfront, the focus of economic development efforts in Western New York.

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, 181 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $4,560,000 to purchase hybrid buses. The NFTA has an urgent need to replace aging buses to serve the local population’s transportation needs. The funding would be used to replace conventional diesel buses that have surpassed their useful life with hybrid electric buses.

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, 181 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. $3,000,000 to construct a remain overnight apron (RON) at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BNIA). The construction of the RON is a critical infrastructure improvement that will ensure safe aircraft movement at the BNIA. It will result in smoother flight activity, relieve airside congestion, and allow planes adequate airside pavement.

Richardson Center Corporation, One News Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14240. $500,000 for the rehabilitation of the Richardson Olmsted Complex, a National Historic Landmark. The funding would be used for capital improvements to prepare the building and grounds for a regional Architecture Center, City of Buffalo Visitor Center, and boutique hotel, including building stabilization and preparation for a developer. Preparing this former historic mental hospital, designed by H.H. Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted, for reuse will spur tourism in Buffalo and greatly assist economic development in Western New York.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263. $2,500,000 to purchase genomics equipment and materials to conduct cancer research as part of their advanced genomics program. Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Roswell Park), the first Cancer Center in the U.S. and among the first to receive the National Cancer Institute’s Comprehensive Cancer Center designation, has a long history of significant discovery and innovation in the field of cancer genetics and genomics. Roswell will use these funds to develop an Advanced Cancer Genome Institute, a world-class program for the early detection, prognosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases.

Roycroft Campus Corporation, 31 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052. $500,000 for the Roycroft Campus Power House, which was built in 1920. The funding would be used to reconstruct the historic Roycroft Power House, which shares a National Historic Landmark designation along with the other Roycroft campus properties which are also listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The reconstruction of the Power House, which was virtually destroyed by a devastating fire more than ten years ago, would greatly assist economic development in Western New York by attracting cultural and architectural tourism.

State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), 1 Forestry Drive, Bray Hall 224, Syracuse, NY 13210. $500,000 to proactively bait and kill or neuter Asian Long-Horn Beetles before they breed and lay their eggs. The SUNY-ESF Technology Combat Asian Long-Horn Beetles in NY Forests project proactively baits and kills or neuters Asian Long-Horn Beetles before they breed and lay their eggs using confirmed combinations of activated female pheromones and host volatiles discovered, identified and synthesized by this effort are attractive to male beetles.

State University of New York at Fredonia, 272 Central Avenue, Fredonia, NY 14063. $150,000 for a small business incubator. The SUNY Fredonia Technology incubator promotes economic growth in the Western Southern Tier of New York by supporting entrepreneurship and the development of new, innovative, technology-based companies into successful business ventures. Further development of the small business incubator will provide crucial operational assistance to the outreach and advocacy activities the incubator is already engaged in to raise awareness for the potential to create and develop small businesses in this region of New York.

Summer Institute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, 267 Newman Street, Springville, NY 14141. $100,000 for educational programs for secondary students interested in human rights policy. This consortium of local teachers and students from several high schools throughout Western New York, that provides high school students with a learning experience focused on the historical legacy of human rights policy and episodes of genocide would enhancing the programming offered, increasing the number of students and teachers that can be involved, and allowing this important work to continue in the community.

SURMET Corp, 31 B Street, Burlington, MA 01803. $ 9,850,000 to create an integrated, domestic manufacturing capability to produce Aluminum Oxy-Nitride (ALON) and Spinel Optical Ceramic components in large quantities and sizes at affordable prices. ALON is recognized as the premier transparent armor material with 50% weight and thickness reduction compared to current hard-glass armor. While government ballistic and IED testing has shown exceptional results, the material is currently too expensive, and is not currently produced in sufficiently large quantities for transparent armor applications. Surmet has a location at 699 Hertel Avenue Suite 290, Buffalo, NY 14207 and 33% of the project would take place in Buffalo.

Town of Boston, 8500 Boston State Road, Boston, NY 14025. $350,000 for a multi-site, multi-district water line extension project to provide residential homes with water service and fire protection.

Town of Cheektowaga, 3301 Broadway, Cheektowaga, NY 14227. $200,000 for law enforcement technology. The Town of Cheektowaga is one of the largest towns in New York State, and is one of the largest first-ring suburbs in Erie County. The Town of Cheektowaga, working in a coalition with community residents, officials from neighboring municipalities, and representatives from the state and federal government, have made a commitment to addressing the growing public safety concerns of residents in the community. To address public safety concerns, the Town would like to make critical investments in technology as a preventative and enforcement tool to aid local law enforcement by purchasing high-technology surveillance cameras that would improve the Town’s efforts to fight criminal activity.

Town of Cheektowaga, 3301 Union Road, Cheektowaga, NY 14227. $250,000 to extend the sewer trunk line westerly along Dingens Street and to construct storm extensions in subsequent phases within Town streets running to Dingens Street, where no storm drainage or outlet capacity now exists. The project will provide drainage relief to the street right-of-way, help to alleviate sidewalk flooding, give residents an opportunity to make drainage improvement on private property and help to reduce infiltration and inflow into the sanitary sewer system.

Town of Hamburg, 6100 South Park Avenue, Hamburg, NY 14075. $2,875,950 for water system improvements that are required for the pending transfer of ownership of the Town of Hamburg’s water system to Erie County Water Authority (ECWA). The Town currently spends an average $1 million per year for necessary capital improvements to the water system. After this project is completed and ECWA takes ownership of the Town’s water facilities, the Town will no longer have this responsibility, thereby removing the local tax burden associated with the significant related charges that presently appear on the Town tax bills of property owners within the affected water districts.

United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $9,100,000 for the Corps’ operation and maintenance of Buffalo Harbor, including dredging and repair of the deteriorating breakwall. Buffalo Harbor serves a number of commercial interests, the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Buffalo, and numerous recreational marinas around which the community has focused recent economic development efforts. The current sediment backlog within the functional harbor areas is estimated at approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards, and severely deteriorated sections of the south breakwater must be repaired.

United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $4,390,000 for the Corps’ operation and maintenance of the Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor. The Black Rock Lock and Channel are located where Lake Erie drains into the Niagara River. It provides for vessels of all types a protected waterway around the reefs, rapids, and fast currents that exist in the upstream portions of the Niagara River. In combination with the New York Erie Canal, they provide vessels an inland water route between Lake Erie and the Atlantic Ocean.

United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $350,000 for Buffalo River Environmental Dredging. The Buffalo River and its sediment have been impaired by past municipal and industrial discharges and heavy industrial development along its banks. Chemical contamination of river sediment and physical disturbances to the river bottom and shoreline have all but eliminated fish and wildlife habitat along the river. This project is to remove and/or remediate contaminated sediment in the River

United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $800,000 for maintenance dredging at Barcelona Harbor, NY. The current sediment backlog within the functional harbor areas is estimated at approximately 35,000 cubic yards. Further shoaling will limit or cease recreational use, and create potential safety issues for the recreational boating community with negative economic impacts.

United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $820,000 for Dunkirk Harbor, NY. Navigation channels are not maintained at the authorized width and depth. The current sediment backlog within the functional harbor areas is 32,000 cubic yards, and dredging is needed to maintain safe navigation in critical channel areas.

United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $250,000 for Smokes Creek Relocation, NY. Relocation of the creek and a new channel alignment will assist in restoring local Lake Erie fish spawning habitat. Also, a new channel alignment will allow public access to the Lake.
United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $100,000 for Eighteen Mile Creek, Boston-NY. Funds would be used for a study to investigate alternative measures for flood damage reduction on Eighteen Mile Creek. Frequent flash flooding endangers creek side residents of the Town of Boston. In a seven year period the town has experienced three major rainstorms and resultant local flooding which have resulted in FEMA disaster declarations. Without correction residents will continue to suffer property damage and traffic interrupted.

United States Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14207. $100,000 for Big Sister Creek, Town of Evans-NY. Funds would be used for a study to investigate ice jam flood mitigation. Ice jam flooding plagues the Town during late winter thaws. During the last major storm in 2004, traffic was impacted along a major traffic connector between Buffalo and nearby southern communities. A flood and coastal storm damage reduction project will reduce or eliminate damage from ice jam flooding events.

United States Coast Guard, 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, DC 20593. $3,000,000 for the Construction and Consolidation of Coast Guard Holdings at Sector Buffalo. Consolidating Sector Buffalo would benefit the Coast Guard, which endures outdated and inadequate facilities, unsuitable for the search and rescue, law enforcement, homeland security, recreational boating safety, environmental response, ice operations and other vital services it provides to the Lake Erie community. The consolidation would also greatly assist economic development in Western New York, by freeing up to 20 acres of public land along the water’s edge and restoring access to the Buffalo Lighthouse.

Valley Community Association, 93 Leddy Street, Buffalo, New York 14210. $200,000 for construction of the Buffalo Historic District Park & Industrial Trail. The project will turn what was for many years a vacant former industrial waterfront site into an economic development anchor in the neighborhood through the construction of a 2.5 acre linear park with boat docks, pavilion, food concession building with lavatories and showers, amphitheater, recreational boating, trails, boardwalk and interpretive signage and exhibits.

WCA Hospital, P.O. Box 840, Jamestown, NY 14702-0840. $1,000,000 for the construction of a new emergency department. WCA’s emergency department’s demands have grown exponentially, and to meet the growing demand WCA will construct a new 18,800 square foot emergency department with 22 private treatment rooms, as well as several specialty patient rooms. The new emergency department will improve the quality of care patients receive as well as positioning WCA well to meet the future healthcare needs of the community.

Western New York Americorps, 2001 Union Road, West Seneca, NY 14224. $200,000 for programs to assist at-risk youth. Buffalo Waterfront Protection ServiceCorps, a unit of WNY Americorps, will create and implement a community curriculum regarding environmental stewardship, educating at-risk youth at schools, community centers, and other appropriate venues about the importance of keeping Buffalo’s waterfront environment clean and flourishing.