Fiscal Year 2010 Congressionally Sponsored District Requests

• Zero dollars have been directed for anything other than local governments, national defense or university research, not one private business has been sponsored to receive federal appropriation dollars.
• 67% of these requests are directed towards national security.
• 35% of these requests are directed towards cutting edge research designed to save lives, improve our nation's energy supply, and improve our agriculture's sustainability.
• 7% of these requests are directed towards improving our region's critically short water supply.

AGRICULTURE

USDA-ARS Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit
3810 4th street
Lubbock Texas 79415
$246,000

The research being done at the USDA-ARS Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit under this program focuses on developing genetic lines for sorghum that are more tolerant to cold early season soil temperatures.  Sorghum with colder temperature tolerances would allow farmers to plant sorghum earlier in the spring and greatly improve the yield potential of their crop.  Additionally, earlier planting would allow for timelier harvesting permitting famers to integrate planting winter wheat into their crop rotations.  Allowing winter wheat or other cover crops to be planted in the fall after sorghum is harvested would give farmers another option to protect land against erosion during winter months.

Cotton Production and Research Center – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$1,700,000
This funding will support research that is focused on maximizing efficiency for regional and U.S. cotton production, marketing and trade.  Overall, the project goals are to develop new information and technologies, increase cotton and textile production, reduce costs, improve market efficiency, increase exports, and improve the U.S. textile industry’s global competitiveness.

Center for Food Industry Excellence – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$950,000
This funding will be used to support systematic development and evaluation of food products from farm to table, and to address the food-related safety concerns that exist in society today.  Specifically, the project will use a multidisciplinary approach to find ways to improve the safety, quality, utility and acceptance of food innovations and resultant food products.

Ogallala Aquifer – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$1,000,000
This funding will support the development of innovative conservation measures for the Ogallala Aquifer resource through a multi-state, university, and federal program. The collective regional knowledge base will be focused on an integrated program to develop and transfer water conservation technology.

Great Plains Sorghum Improvement and Utilization Center – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$500,000
This funding will support an initiative that will build on the Kansas Sorghum Improvement Center, initiated in 2001, by pooling and integrating the research and extension resources for sorghum improvement, utilization, production and marketing located at Kansas State University, Texas Tech University, and Texas A&M University Efforts among the three institutions will be integrated to work together in a series of multi-institutional and multidisciplinary teams to bring new technologies and knowledge together and focus on improvement of profitability in each stage of sorghum production, processing, and marketing. 

DEFENSE

Compact Pulsed Power Initiative – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$3,000,000
The funding will be used to develop compact electromagnetic radiation sources for integration into standard weapons systems for defense applications that require the destruction of electronic hardware while minimizing collateral damage.

Zumwalt National Program for Biological & Chemical Threats – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$2,000,000
This funding will be used to further the understanding and ability of operational military forces to identify, prevent, and mitigate any threats war fighters may face from biological and chemical weapon agents in any environment at anytime.

ENERGY AND WATER

Elm Creek Watershed Flood Prevention – City of Abilene
US Army Corps of Engineers
819 Taylor Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
$328,000
This funding would be used for the federal portion of the flood control project between the Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Abilene.  The funds will complete development of a detailed study of local flood protection alternatives in the Elm Creek Watershed.

Wind Science and Engineering Center – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$2,000,000
This funding is requested to focus on further extension and applications of the capabilities and facilities of the Texas Tech Wind Power Research Facility and its use as a unique national asset, will characterize the Gulf of Mexico offshore wind resource, will continue the development and application of wind-driven reverse osmosis water purification systems, and will continue outreach and education of the associated technologies, their applications, and results.  

Salt Creek Flood Control – City of Graham
US Army Corps of Engineers
819 Taylor Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
$2,000,000
This funding would be used toward the federal portion of the flood control project underway between the Army Corps of Engineers and the Brazos River Authority that was authorized in 1999.

INTERIOR AND ENVIRONMENT

Water and Wastewater Facility Treatment Improvements – City of Abilene
555 Walnut Street
Abilene, TX 79604
$600,000
This funding will support Abilene’s wastewater and drinking water treatment facilities which need several major improvements to ensure efficient operation and compliance with EPA Clean Water Act and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality guidelines. Expansion and renovations are also required to meet the increasing needs of Abilene (including Dyess Air Force Base) and other Texas communities in Taylor County and Jones County that depend on Abilene for treating water to make it safe to drink and for processing wastewater.

Lake Alan Henry Treated Water Pipeline – City of Lubbock
1625 13th Street
Lubbock, TX 79409
$600,000
The Treated Water Pipeline will consist of several miles of pipeline conveying the treated Lake Alan Henry water from the new water treatment plant to be located in southeast Lubbock to various connections locations in the existing City of Lubbock water distribution system.   Treated water will be distributed to not only the citizens of Lubbock but numerous rural communities with populations well under 5,000. 

Water Tank Replacement – City of Petersburg
PO Box 326
Petersburg, TX 79409
$400,000
This funding would support the replacement of a water tank used to supply drinking water to more than 1,250 residents.  It would enable the city’s residents to continue using its water supply while also maintaining a constant supply of pressurized water for fire fighting purposes. 

LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Cancer Center for the South Plains Region – Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
3601 4th Street
Lubbock, Texas 79430
$500,000
This funding would support the Cancer Center which seeks to reduce suffering from cancer in the South Plains region through education, prevention, and early access to state-of-the art cancer therapeutics. The Cancer Center will serve the region, state, and nation by decreasing the substantial costs associated with the morbidity and mortality from cancer occurring in the region.

Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$250,000
This funding would support a federal and state supported program dedicated to expanding recovery support and relapse prevention available for students and to serve as a demonstration program that easily can be replicated by other institutions of higher education.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Mission Operations Center – Dyess Air Force Base
7 Lancer Loop
Dyess AFB, TX 79607
$12,400,000
Funding will be used towards replacement of aging facilities.  Presently, eight support operations at Dyess AFB are scattered among several substandard buildings constructed in the 1950s, including converted dormitories and an old fire station. The Air Force proposes to construct a new building and move these operations to one central, cost-effective and energy-efficient location.  Several of the older buildings will be demolished.

ADAL Network Control Center – Dyess Air Force Base
7 Lancer Loop
Dyess AFB, TX 79607
$7,600,000
Funding will be used towards the alteration of, and the construction of an addition to, the existing Network Control Center to consolidate functions into a single facility. The electrical and HVAC system in the existing server room are unreliable and needs to be updated. In addition, the communications squadron is fragmented across the base in several buildings. The project includes the demolition of an obsolete building.

TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Lubbock Citibus Bus Facility Improvements – City of Lubbock
PO Box 2000
Lubbock, TX 79457
$1,000,000
The funding will be used for a Section 5309 request to cover bus purchases that would replace the existing bus fleet with hybrid busses.

Life Sciences Accelerator – City of Abilene
555 Walnut Street
Abilene, TX 79604
$300,000
This funding will assist the Development Corporation of Abilene, which is building a Life Sciences Accelerator, a biotech facility that will contain laboratories, research equipment, and office space to be “time shared” by biotech company tenants.  This Accelerator is part of a much larger biotech initiative designed to diversify the regional economy by attracting high-paying jobs.  The building is under construction with completion targeted by December 2009.  The Accelerator needs the specialized equipment to make it a world class facility and to bring additional jobs to the region.

Paratransit Bus Facility Improvements – City of Abilene
PO Box 60
Abilene, TX 79601
$200,000
This funding will support the City of Abilene’s bus system that provides the community with 12 fixed bus routes, ADA Paratransit service, and demand-response evening service. 

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND SCIENCE

Engineering Support for Extended Human and Robotic Space Flight Missions – Texas Tech University
2500 Broadway
Lubbock, TX 79409
$1,000,000
This funding will be used towards providing engineering support for extended human and robotic space flight missions, which will directly contribute to NASA’s initiative of returning to the moon and going to mars.  For human and robotic missions the Center for Space Sciences is addressing the need for a decreased reliance on mission control due to the communication delays that occur in long distance missions.