“I am pleased that Congress has finally passed this spending bill, so that agencies and organizations in our district waiting for this overdue funding can now get down to business,” Ross said.  “There have been many compromises over the past few weeks, and even into the night before this bill was finally sent to us for approval.  It has been a tough fight to ensure that our district’s funding needs were met in this government wide spending package, and I am pleased that we came out on top.”

Appropriations bills not included in the Omnibus are the Department of Defense and Military Construction Appropriations that Congress passed in 2002.  Within these bills, Ross helped to secure $973 million for the Fourth District, which brings the fiscal year 2003 total to more than $1 billion.

Funding for projects in Arkansas’s Fourth Congressional District in H.J.Res.2 are as follows:

Department of Agriculture - $3,872,000
Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center - $200,000 
Delta Regional Authority - $2,000,000 
Endophyte Research, South Central Family Farm Research - $250,000 
South Central Family Farm Research Center - $50,000 increase 
Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center, Booneville - $250,000 
The Little River Conservation District, Walnut Bayou Irrigation Project - $375,000 
UA Monticello - Forest Management Strategies - $215,000 
UA Pine Bluff Aquaculture - $232,000 
Walnut Bayou - $300,000 
 
Department of Commerce, Justice, State - $10,900,000
AR Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs, Statewide At-Risk Youth Programs - $900,000 
Pine Bluff Arsenal, Sustainment Training Center - $10,000,000 
 
Department of Energy and Water - $269,462,000
Arkansas River Levees - $175,000 
Arkansas River Navigation Study, AR and OK - $1,100,000 
Bayou Meto Basin - $1,400,000 
Blakely Mountain, Lake Ouachita - $9,444,000 
Boeuf and Tensas Rivers - $3,400,000 
DeGray Lake - $4,620,000 
Delta Regional Authority - $8,000,000 
DeQueen Lake - $931,000 
Dierks Lake - $959,000 
Hot Springs - $100,000 
Inspection of Completed Works, Maintenance - $441,000 
Inspection of Completed Works, General - $147,000 
McClellan – Kerr Backlog - $3,360,000 
McClellan –Kerr Navigation System - $24,925,000 
Mississippi River and Tributaries (multi-state): 
Channel Improvement, Construction - $37,790,000 
Channel Improvement, Maintenance - $66,465,000 
Mississippi River Levees, Construction - $47,885,000 
Mississippi River Levees, Maintenance - $9,000,000 
Montgomery Point Lock and Dam - $23,000,000 
Narrows Dam, Lake Greeson - $7,440,000 
Ouachita and Black Rivers - $7,500,000 
Red River Below Denison Dam, AR, LA, and TX - $2,500,000 
Red River Emergency Bank Protection - $4,000,000 
Red River Navigation Study, Southwest AR - $583,000 
Southeast Arkansas - $650,000 
Southwest Arkansas Study - $100,000 
Union County - $500,000 
White River Comprehensive Study, AR and MO - $600,000 
White River Navigation to Newport, AR – $100,000 
White River - $2,200,000 
Yellow Bend Port - $147,000 
 
Department of the Interior - $1,000,000

Camp Ouachita - $1,000,000 
 
Department of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education - $500,000
·        El Dorado Boys and Girls Club - $25,000

Cossatot Community College - $475,000 
 
Department of Transportation - $14,325,000
·        Arkansas Bus and Bus Facilities - $4,500,000
·        Highway 71 (I-49), Texarkana to DeQueen - $600,000
·        Highway 82, Greenville Bridge - $1,050,000
·        Hot Springs Expressway Extension - $1,000,000
·        I-69 Connector, I-530 from Pine Bluff to Wilmar - $700,000
·        I-69, Great River Bridge - $4,000,000
·        Mena International Airport, Instrument Landing System - $750,000
·        Port Connector Road, Jefferson County - $600,000
·        Tate’s Bluff Bridge Project, Ouachita County, Phase II - $1,125,000

Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development - $810,000
·        Arkansas YMCA’s - $450,000
·        Bradley City Hall - $180,000
·        Dermott City Community Nursing Home - $180,000