2011 Appropriations Requests submitted by U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey:
Agriculture FY 11 Appropriations Requests
Russian Wheat Aphid Resistance
Colorado State University
203 Administration
Building
Fort Collins, CO
80523
Funding Requested: $350,000
Description of Project: Russian Wheat Aphid Resistance,
Stress Tolerance, and Quality Enhancement -- Colorado State University
researchers, in cooperation with federal programs and with strong support from
wheat growers, have long provided improved technologies (new varieties and crop
management practices) to maintain the viability of wheat-based agriculture in
the region. The goal of this project is to develop the knowledge and
technical capabilities to respond to present and future challenges by applying
new technologies to the genetic enhancement of wheat cultivars.
Beef Cattle
Consortium (CSU)
Colorado State
University
203 Administration
Building
Fort Collins, CO
80523
Funding Requested: $800,000
Description of Project: National Beef Cattle Evaluation
Consortium -- The National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium (NBCEC), a
consortium of three universities, is requesting federal support for efforts to
develop advanced genetic evaluation systems that will improve the profitability
and global competitiveness of the United States beef industry. The Consortium,
created by an Act of Congress and included in the 2002 Farm Bill, seeks to help
reverse the erosion in the U.S. genetic evaluation system and to restore the
competitive advantage historically maintained by U.S. beef producers.
The Program of Economically Important Infections Animal Diseases (PEIIAD)
Colorado State
University
203 Administration
Building
Fort Collins, CO
80523
Funding Requested:
$700,000
Description of Project: The Program of Economically
Important Infectious Animal Diseases (PEIIAD) – PEIIAD’s creation filled a
national void as no single entity had provided timely, multidisciplinary
research focused entirely on animal diseases that either threaten the US food
supply or have the potential to cause serious economic losses for animal
agriculture on a local, national, and international scale. Since its
inception, PEIIAD has been continually at the forefront addressing the most
challenging questions about animal disease surveillance systems, the detection
of and response to emerging and re-emerging animal diseases, diagnostic
strategies for infectious animal diseases, food safety concerns, risk analysis
models and protocols, and trade economics.
Sugar Beet Research
(CSU)
Colorado State University
203 Administration
Building
Fort Collins, CO
80523
Funding Requested:
$1,300,000
Description of Project: This project will focus on
development of improved sugarbeet germplasm that serves the diverse and
changing needs of the U.S. beet sugar industry (seed companies, and grower
cooperatives, which produce and process all sugarbeet in the U.S.). In
addition, this project will facilitate development of sugarbeet germplasm with
greater disease resistance and assist in the development of improved and
innovative management principles for pathogens that impact the Northern Plains
and U.S. sugarbeet growing areas. We also seek to understand the
interaction of the disease-causing pathogens with sugarbeet for the important
sugarbeet diseases, to develop alternatives to manage diseases more
effectively.
Irrigation and Water
Conservation Research Initiative (Yuma)
Irrigation Research Foundation
40161
Highway 59
Yuma,
CO, 80759
Funding Requested:
$1,000,000
This project, The Irrigation and Water Conservation
Research Initiative, will employ multiple modern irrigation practices monitored
by high-tech in-soil computer tracking sensors to study the actual water uptake
and crop output of plants at different saturation levels. After learning of
positive results in other parts of the country using this technique, the IRF
seeks to prove that antiquated watering methods and farming techniques are
resulting in the gross waste of millions of gallons of water from the Ogallala
aquifer and beyond.
Ben Delatour Ranch
The Conservation Fund
1942 Broadway, Suite 323
Boulder, CO 80203
Funding Requested:
$4,000,000
The Conservation Fund, in
partnership with the Longs Peak Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the
Colorado State Forest Service, seeks full funding of the President’s FY2011
budget request for $4,000,000 from the Forest Legacy Program to purchase a
conservation easement on the 3,201-acre Ben Delatour Scout Ranch located in the
Laramie Foothills west of Fort Collins, Colorado. The conservation
easement will protect the outstanding ecological, scenic and recreational
values on Ben Delatour Scout Ranch, while ensuring that the ranch remains
available for valuable outdoor education and youth programs, and for fieldwork
and hands-on learning by Colorado’s university students.
Commerce, Justice, Science FY 11 Appropriations Requests
Crossroads Safehouse (Ft. Collins)
· Funding Requested: $500,000
· Description of Project: Crossroads Safehouse is pursuing a capital campaign to renovate a donated 29,000-square-foot former nursing home building for use as the first statewide domestic violence shelter in the United States and the first “green” Safehouse in Colorado. This building has the capacity to sleep 104 individuals each night and will promote the safety, healing, and self-sufficiency-building needs of this population locally and statewide. The Project has garnered support at the state and national levels. To date, Crossroads has raised $4,116,090 in cash, pledges, and in-kind contributions (including the $2.5 million building) which totals 76% of the total campaign goal of $5.4 million.
· This project has not received previous federal funding.
S.H.A.R.E., Inc., Morgan County Domestic Violence Program (Ft. Morgan)
· Funding Requested: $300,000
· Description of Project: Funds will be used to continue funding for a training coordinator for the 13th Judicial District, continue funding for a Child/Youth Program Coordinator, and continue funding for the supervised visitation and safe exchange program. Funding will also be used to provide national and regional training for our grant partners, allied agencies, and community members. Funds are also being requested for general maintenance and operational expenses for the domestic violence shelter.
Energy and Water Development FY 11 Appropriations Requests
Arkansas Valley Conduit – Bureau of Rec
· Funding Requested: $8,000,000
· Description of Project: The $8 million request is broken in two parts. $3 million is currently in the 2011 Department of Interior’s budget for work associated with the NEPA studies. The District is requesting another $5 million through the Colorado delegation for the tasks listed below in order to maintain the Conduit project timeline critical to meeting federal mandates. The 2011 total requested appropriations of $8 million is identified to be utilized as follows:
NEPA Year 2 $3,000,000
Feasibility Design $4,000,000
Engineering Evaluations $ 400,000
Preliminary Legal Investigations $ 250,000
District Admin and Oversight $ 350,000
$8,000,000
Chatfield Reservoir - Army Corps of Engineers
· Funding Requested: $225,000
· Description of Project: The Chatfield Reservoir is owned and operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers. This project will expand the reservoir and expand the water supply for 15 municipal and agricultural users in the Denver metro and area and northeast Colorado. Once this project is completed, the water users will pay the US government $14 million per year for the right to store water at Chatfield. This project was authorized in the 1986 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) and requires that federal funds are matched with a 50-50 cost share.
Cenergy and the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory - CSU
· Funding Requested: $2,000,000
· Description of Project: Capital project to expand the Colorado State University Engines and Energy Conversion Lab (to be renamed the CENERGY Incubator) that will be the home to the unprecedented public/private partnership between Colorado State University (building owner) and the City of Fort Collins (land owner) that will allow for maximum utilization of the power plant site for expanded research, development and commercialization that will create breakthroughs in new technologies, new companies and JOBS. The expansion will be a hallmark of the most advanced technologies in sustainable and regenerative design/build. The expansion itself will be a state of the art teaching and research facility blending the innovation, research and development of the 21st Century with the natural environment of the Poudre River that is part of a yet to officially designated Innovation Zone.
· EECL itself has never received funding although the InteGrid (housed inside EECL) received $900,000 last year.
InteGrid Laboratory: Developing the Smart Grid Simulation Laboratory - CSU
· Funding Requested: $1,350,000
· Description of Project: The smart grid simulation laboratory (aka InteGrid) will lead the transformation of the U.S. electric power grid from a central power generating station model to a model that permits more distributed use of renewable power generation sources and active coupling of the demand side, i.e., the end users. Funding will be utilized for personnel, supplies, and the specialized equipment and instrumentation necessary to develop the unique Smart Grid capabilities that will demonstration in situ a reliable, secure, and market-driven electric power grid. The addition of this unique facility is estimated to produce $3-5 million in new, sponsored research annually. The Laboratory will also spawn start-up companies and other ancillary economic benefits including derivatives of a tax base and employment.
Sustainable Biofuels Development Center (SBDC) - CSU
· Funding Requested: $1,935,000
· Description of Project: This project works on optimizing the research and production of sustainable, high energy yield biofuels for production on a large scale at competitive costs. These funds will be used to conduct continued research and student training, as well as the acquisition of equipment to facilitate the chemical and biological analysis of plants, microorganisms, and biofuels. The funds requested here will be leveraged to an expected level of $5 million via funding from industry and several state and federal agencies. In its two years of operation, the SBDC has supported projects and activities involving 18 faculty members, 6 postdoctoral researchers, and 13 graduate and undergraduate students. Over the next three years, with additional funding, the SBDC expects to increase these participant numbers to 25 faculty members, 12 postdoctoral researchers, and 50 students. They expect the SBDC will lead to 8-10 invention disclosures and the spinoff of 2-3 new businesses that would grow to employ as many as 200 people in the biofuels industry.
CONTINUING AUTHORITIES PROGRAM
Amount: $100,000
Description: This is a 1135 CAP project to initiate the feasibility study required to start the tamarisk removal from the Arkansas River adjacent to and Army Corps project. The project will investigate ecosystem restoration measures in the Arkansas River basin in Colorado, including removal of salt cedar and other invasive species. This project was authorized in the 1986 WRDA.
Homeland Security FY 11 Appropriations Requests
Logan County Tornado Shelter
Logan County Government
315 Main Street
Sterling, CO 80112
• Funding Requested: $140,000
• The purpose of this project is to construct a tornado shelter at the Logan County Health and Human Services Facility. Logan County will provide project management and oversight. The project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because the shelter will hold 137 people and is designed to serve both the health facility and nearby mobile home community. The project will create 1.2 direct jobs and 2.4 indirect jobs.
Cheyenne Wells Tornado Shelter
Town of Cheyenne Wells
151 South 1st West
Cheyenne Wells, CO 80810
• Funding Requested: $400,000
• The community of Cheyenne Wells has witnesses devastating storms which have resulted in numerous injuries and loss of life. The Town of Cheyenne Wells proposes to build an additional emergency tornado shelter for the community. This is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because the Town of Cheyenne Wells currently has only one shelter that is insufficient for the population. The proposed shelter will hold approximately 150 people.
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Lamar Teen Center – Lamar School District Re-2
· Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Education
· Request: $131,000
· This earmark will support the daily operations of the Lamar Teen Center, operated through the Lamar School District Re-2. This center provides students in grades 3 through 12 in this small, rural town a place to go after school for tutoring, homework help, recreational activities, and other enrichment opportunities, including art, music, and educational workshops. Each night, the Teen Center averages 75-80 students per night, offering significant educational opportunities for rural students. This program is in its fifth year and was formerly funded through the 21st Century Education grants distributed through the state.
Infectious Disease Research Center Animal Imaging Facility (CSU)
· HHS, HRSA
· Request: $3,055,000
· This department received an appropriation in FY10, but this is not the same program or project.
· The Infectious Disease Research Center is seeking funding for equipment. The center is asking for funds to purchase and Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine for use in its BLS-3 lab facilities. Other MRIs are owned by CSU, but this equipment would be the only facility available for use with infectious diseases. This would allow longitudinal studies of the effects of diseases in live animals. This would decrease the number of animals required to study disease progression and would increase the speed of evaluating new animal models. The addition of this equipment to CSUs existing infectious disease center would make it a unique facility, as there are very few animal imaging facilities in the world that can handle infectious diseases. This imaging system will be used by many other public universities in the west and by the CDC Vector-Borne Disease Center located on the same campus.
National Institute for Nursing Education and Scholarship - University of Northern Colorado
* HHS, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
· Request: $1,712,000.00
· Recipient of Appropriations in FY09, $438,000
· The National Institute for Nursing Education and Scholarship (NINES) engages in scholarly exploration and promotion of best practice approaches to nursing education. The nation is currently experiencing a dramatic shortage of nurses and the quality of nursing education is vital to the success of our health care system. NINES was established to be a significant resource for those seeking best practices in the field of nursing education as well as developing master’s, post-master’s certificate, and doctoral programs.
Education Innovation Institute - University of Northern Colorado
* Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
· Request: $2,000,000.00
· Recipient of Appropriations in FY09, $150,000
· The Education Innovation Institute is a burgeoning program at UNC designed to be the leading authority on educational policy research and analysis. The Institute is striving to provide a universally recognized forum to pursue innovative approaches to teaching and learning that will advance U.S. education. The Institute will foster collaborations between the entire education ecosystem, including researchers, practitioners, developers of educational materials, and more.
Breast Health Center - North Colorado Medical Center
* HHS, HRSA, HCOF
· Request: $2,000,000.00
· This is a request by the North Colorado Medical Center for their Breast Health Center to acquire new equipment to increase their ability to treat, detect, and prevent breast cancer and other related disorders. The new digital imagining equipment will be used by North Colorado Medical Center, which is the primary care facility for Weld County’s nearly four thousand square miles. The new equipment will serve large urban and suburban populations that include large minority and low-income groups. The Breast Health Center already sees nine thousand women each year from across a large geographic area. The long-term savings to the facility by replacing aging and obsolete equipment will help increase the number of annual visits and will help maintain the center’s high level of care.
Transportation FY 11 Appropriations Requests
Organization: CDOT (NUNN)
Amount Requested for FY11: $2,300,000
Project: The project will be the rehabilitation of the bridge deck of structure B-17-C on U.S. 85 over the Union Pacific Railroad, north of Nunn.
Organization: CDOT (Akron)
Amount Requested for FY11: $1,200,000
Project: The project will be 12 miles of chip-seal on U.S. 34 from Akron heading east towards Yuma.
Organization: CASTA
Amount Requested for FY11: $500,000
Project: CASTA is the state coalition of transit agencies; Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Northeast CO are all represented and receive their federal transit dollars through CASTA.
Defense FY 11 Appropriations Requests
Organization: CSU
Amount Requested for FY11: $1,000,000
Project: Department of Defense Center for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research simulates terrain and weather conditions to prepare the military for what they may face in a given area. For example, one component they are studying is how to improve the icing and turbulence forecasts for helicopters in the Afghan mountains.
Organization: CSU
Amount Requested for FY11: $800,000
Project: CSU is working on the application of computer co-simulation tools to increase fuel efficiency of USMC military vehicle fleet. The project would allow the military to have a near real time prediction of performance of various technologies when applied to vehicles. The project includes modeling and simulation tools that will quantify effects of the new technologies.
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