Michael F.Bennet

FY 2011 Agriculture Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Entity: Colorado State University
  Project Name: Economically Important Infectious Animal Diseases (PEIIAD) Research
  Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $700,000
  PEIIAD provides timely, multidisciplinary research focused entirely on animal diseases that threaten the US food supply and/or cause economic losses for animal agriculture on a local, national and international scale. Researchers at Colorado State University specialize in research of animal diseases such as avian influenza, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Chronic Wasting Disease, Vesicular stomatitis, brucellosis, scrapie, Food and Mouth Disease, and West Nile Virus. The center has been conducting research since 1998. PEIIAD research activities have resulted in more than 90 publications, several validated diagnostic tests, and a validated risk analysis model. More than 60 scientists and graduate students have been involved in PEIIAD activities since the program's inception.
  Specifically, funds would be used for research personnel, laboratory supplies, equipment, and dissemination of research.
  
• Entity: Colorado State University
  Project Name: National Beef Cattle Genetic Evaluation Consortium
  Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $700,000
  The United States' beef cattle industry provides affordable, high quality red meat to American and international consumers and plays an important role in rural America's economy. Genetic evaluation enhances the global competitiveness of American producers and represents a wise investment of federal dollars.
  Specifically, the funds will be used for the consortium to research, produce, evaluate, and distribute beef cattle genetic information.
  
• Entity: Colorado State University
  Project Name: Russian Wheat Aphid Resistance, Stress Tolerance, and Quality Enhancement of Wheat
  Project Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $300,000
  Funding would be used to research wheat-based cropping systems that are critical to the economic stability of the United States and Colorado by developing a wheat variety that is resistant to the Russian Wheat Aphid, which has caused direct losses of over $11 million annually to the Colorado and central Great Plains economies. CSU uses new technologies developed through this program to accelerate the identification of useful genes and to incorporate these genes into new varieties, which will enhance the yield and safety of our domestic wheat crop. The funds are used by CSU scientists, Colorado farmers, and farmers in other central Great Plains states.
  Specifically, funds would be used to support three research assistants, two graduate research assistants, pay hourly undergraduate workers, purchase equipment and supplies, and pay for field and greenhouse expenses.

FY 2011 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Entity:  Childhelp
  Project Name:  Expansion of Child Advocacy Services at River Bridge Center
  Location:  Glenwood Springs, CO
  Amount Requested:  $300,000
  River Bridge Center is the only facility of its kind serving Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle, and Rio Blanco counties.  The center provides efficient investigational resources and treatment to address the safety and emotional needs of abused and neglected children who are referred to the center.  The center provides forensic interviews and medical examinations, crisis intervention, safe placement, individual and group counseling, victim’s compensation information, and court case preparation all under one roof.  Childhelp, the non-profit entity that runs the center, is part of a multi-disciplinary team  consisting of the 9th Judicial Office of the District Court, Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, the Police Departments of Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, New Castle, Silt, Rifle, and Parachute, Valleywide Forensic Nurses, and the Garfield County Department of Human Resources. During FY2009, the center provided services to over 278 child abuse victims and their non-offending family members.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to expand and improve intervention and treatment, as well as prevention programming, public awareness and training services.
  
• Entity:  City of Brighton
  Project Name:  Summer Program for At-Risk Youth
  Location: Brighton, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  The City of Brighton’s summer program will provide Brighton at-risk youth, ages 14 to 21 (including youth most in need of assistance, such as out-of-school  youth, homeless youth, youth in foster care, youth aging out of foster care, youth offenders, children of incarcerated parents, migrant and seasonal farm worker youth, and other youth at risk) with summer employment and educational experiences that build upon their individuals strengths and incorporate youth development principles.  These principles include engaging the talents and interests of youth, developing their skills and competencies, and providing positive adult role models.   The Core objectives of the summer program are as follows:
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to hire a youth services coordinator, purchase equipment, develop programming, and engage in outreach.
  
• Entity:  City of Colorado Springs Police Department
  Project Name: Technology Enhancement
  Location: Colorado Springs, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  Existing Colorado Springs Police Department information systems are, in some cases, over 20 years old and written on IT platforms which are no longer supported or are not in a format that can be easily converted for use in modern programs. As a result, the Colorado Springs Police Department is currently addressing 2010 information technology needs with an infrastructure designed for a different environment and a different time.  Its existing system is in jeopardy of collapsing, information generated has a potential to be impacted by human error, is inefficient, and unable to share information internally or externally.
  
  Information sharing is a top priority for the federal government and it needs to access important information and intelligence stored in local law enforcement systems. These systems, if modernized, become essential in supporting local, state and national security.  Because of the military assets and defense contractors located in Colorado Springs, it faces an elevated risk of a terrorist attack. This reality further underscores the need for the Colorado Springs Police Department, as a local law enforcement agency, to have technology that supports information sharing.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for hardware procurement, hardware and software and installation, data conversion, testing, training, and maintenance support.  
  
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: Gang Suppression
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  The funds requested will enhance the Denver Police Department’s ability to anticipate and dismantle complex criminal activity, including terrorism and gang-related violent crime. 
  
  Specifically, the funds would be used to hire an intelligence analyst to assist intelligence detectives and DPD’s Gang Bureau to solve complex cases.  The department currently does not have a dedicated intelligence analyst, and this new capability will increase its investigatory successes exponentially.  
  
• Entity:  Colorado Meth Project
  Project Name:  "Not Even Once" Campaign
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  The Colorado Meth Project is a large-scale effort in prevention, aimed at significantly reducing first-time meth use with a primary focus on teens and young adults. A secondary objective of the Colorado Meth Project is to raise awareness of the scale, depth, and critical nature of the meth problem in the state, while aiming to stem the destruction to individuals and the high costs to communities that result from the use of meth. The objectives for the “Not Even Once” Campaign are: increasing perceived risks of trying Meth, decreasing perceived benefits, increasing parent-child discussions, and decreasing social acceptance of meth use.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for a media campaign, outreach, advertising development, and personnel costs.
  
• Entity: Commerce City
  Project Name: Interoperable Communications Equipment
  Location: Commerce City, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  This funding would be used by Commerce City to purchase technologies in order to improve communications interoperability, enhance information-sharing and emergency response, and prevent crime. 
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to purchase 54 mobile computers for police and emergency vehicles, 35 fixed mounted radios, 20 portable radios, additional equipment, and upgrade the city’s mobile emergency management command center.  
  
• Entity:  Jefferson County, Colorado
  Project Name:  Methamphetamine Interdiction Response Collaborative
  Location:  Jefferson County, CO
  Amount Requested:  $370,094
  The Methamphetamine Response Collaborative is a multi-jurisdictional task force that includes Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, Jefferson County Health and Human Services, Jefferson County Community Development, and the Jefferson County municipalities of Arvada, Golden, Lakewood and Wheat Ridge.  The task force is required to investigate local lab production and distribution and investigate meth that is trafficked to Jefferson County from outside the U.S. 
  
  Specifically, the funds would be used to purchase equipment, protective gear, and meet staffing needs.  
  
• Entity:  Montrose County Commissioners
  Project Name:  Montrose County Justice Center Equipment Upgrades
  Location:  Montrose County, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  The Montrose Justice Center houses the courts, employees, and services rendered for the State of Colorado Seventh Judicial District, including the staff and space for the District Attorney. The county is planning to expand and upgrade the justice center, and requested funds would cover the costs of equipping the newly expanded facility.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for security equipment, mobile technology equipment, and software upgrades.
  
• Entity: State of Colorado
  Project Name: Comprehensive Public Safety Training and Awareness Campaign for Colorado
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  The Colorado Department of Public Safety teamed with the non-profit Center for Empowered Living and Learning to develop a public awareness campaign to educate law enforcement and the general population about evolving threats and signs of terrorism.  Such a campaign would include an educational curriculum, lecture series, training simulations, and in-the-field training.  Funding for this project is in the interest of taxpayers because it will enhance the capabilities of the general population and emergency management officials to recognize and prevent potential threats to our national security.
  
• Entity:  YWCA Pueblo
  Project Name:  Domestic Violence Prevention Education
  Location:  Pueblo, CO
  Amount Requested:  $300,000
  Funds would be used for a teen domestic violence prevention education program.  The program is a collaboration between Pueblo public schools, the Pueblo City/County Health Department, the Boy Scouts, the YMCA, churches, and youth serving organizations.  The goal of the program is to equip youth with the skills to develop healthy relationships, through positive communication, anger management, and conflict resolution.
  
  This program provides: (1) parent education to help parents understand the impact of domestic violence on children and help them improve their parenting skills; (2) domestic violence prevention curriculum for teen parents with children enrolled in the YWCA Children’s Learning Center; and, (3) training for volunteers to implement this project in subsequent years to ensure its sustainability.
  Specifically, funds would be used to for programming, training materials, and outreach.

FY 2011 Defense Authorization/Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Item Name: Center for Respiratory Biodefense
  Request: $3,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: National Jewish Medical and Research Center
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Denver, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: Funding will allow for the continued development of a Respiratory Biodefense initiative at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, which has been named the #1 Respiratory Hospital in America for the past 10 years by U.S. News and World Report.
  
  The Center for Respiratory Biodefense uses the unique expertise of researchers at National Jewish to help plan for an accident or possible terrorist attack involving radiation, toxic inhaled gas, or infectious agents. This center increases our country's ability to properly respond to an event that could cause widespread injury to people within the U.S.
  
  This initiative will also help provide protection against pandemic threats, including those posed by influenza, that may hit the military in the next decade.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used for laboratory equipment, research materials related to vaccine development, and administrative costs.
• Item Name: Colorado National Guard Reintegration Program
  Request: $1,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: Colorado National Guard
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Centennial, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: Section 582 of the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act directed the Secretary of Defense to establish a national ‘Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program' to better support National Guard and Reserve members and family members who are affected by deployments. The Colorado National Guard began this program in FY 2009 and is using it to expand its existing reintegration programs to provide, as described in the 2008 NDAA, "informational events and activities for members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces, their families, and community members to facilitate access to services supporting their health and well-being through the 4 phases of the deployment cycle." The Colorado National Guard's program hosts one event per unit for service members and families in the pre-deployment phase, two events per unit during deployment for families, and three events per unit for service members and families during the post-deployment phase.
  
  As citizen-soldiers who must return to their careers and hometowns after deployments, members of the National Guard and their families need specialized support. The Yellow Ribbon program recognizes these unique needs. The program is also important to recruiting and retaining guard members, and to making sure that the Colorado National Guard can serve the citizens of Colorado, the nation, and the world in times of emergency.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used to provide 90, 60, and 30 day pre-deployment activities for deploying soldiers and their families; a mid-deployment retreat for spouses and youth; and 30, 60, 90 and 180 day post deployment events for soldiers and their families.
• Item Name: Energy Efficiency on Military Bases
  Request: $1,200,000
  Suggested Recipient: Veterans Green Jobs
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Denver, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: Funding will be used by Veterans Green Jobs (VGJ) to provide energy efficiency services on military installations as part of on-the-job training and career development for veterans.
  
  The U.S. military is the largest single consumer of energy in the U.S. Buildings and facilities represent almost 25% of the over $13 billion the military spent on energy resources in 2006. This dependence on significant energy resources creates serious security risks due to the nation's vulnerable grid infrastructure. As part of the 2007 Energy Act, installations were directed to reduce energy use by 30% by 2015. Installations were also directed to procure 25% of their energy from renewable sources by 2025. It is widely recognized that very limited progress has been made towards these goals at most facilities. It is also recognized that the first and most significant improvements can be made through aggressive implementation of energy efficiency and conservation measures.
  
  VGJ proposes a targeted training program that would both train and employ military service veterans to implement energy efficiency and conservation measures on both base housing and other base facilities as part of a strategy to reduce energy dependence and increase base energy security. Veterans Green Jobs and local education partners will coordinate both intensive classroom education, on-the-job training, and small business mentorships utilizing the military installations as career preparation employment for veterans who will then be ready to enter the job market, either as part of a trained workforce or as veteran-owned contractors in energy efficiency services.
  
  This funding will create at least 30 new jobs in Colorado and will spur additional demand and investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in all sectors of the Colorado economy. This funding will also help solidify Colorado's position as a leader in the smart energy economy.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used for base housing weatherization, green retrofits, industrial/commercial energy efficiency, curriculum development and accreditation, base housing energy efficiency analysis, and training.
• Item Name: Expansion of the Wounded Warrior Careers Demonstration
  Request: $1,200,000
  Suggested Recipient: National Organization on Disability
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Colorado, Texas, and North Carolina
  Purpose/Project Description: The combat America is engaged in abroad has caused the Army Wounded Warrior population to more than triple, from 1,700 in 2006 to over 6,000 today. The other Military Services have approximately another 1,500 of such disabled personnel. These service members leave the Army and other Services with needs that the Services and other federal agencies cannot fully address. They urgently need intensive career planning and mentorship so that they can move into training, education, or work and return to self-sufficiency as contributing members of their communities.
  
  In order to better address the needs of these Veterans with disabilities, in early 2007 the Army entered in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Organization on Disability (NOD), a nonprofit that specializes in employment issues for people with disabilities. Under this MOU, NOD is using private support to provide career counseling and placement support to Veterans in Colorado, Texas, and North Carolina. After only a year and a half of operations, over 63% of the 200 NOD Careers program participants have entered into education, training, or work, compared with approximately 20% of those without such innovative support.
  
  It is important that this study continue for at least five years at the current sites, and there is currently only enough private funding to complete three years. Extending the study for two more years will ensure that the NOD can turn over a well-developed, working model to the Army.
• Item Name: Geosciences/Atmospheric Research
  Request: $3,000,000
  Received in FY2010: $3,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: Colorado State University
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Fort Collins, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: The Department of Defense encounters environmental conditions that disrupt counterterrorism, war-fighting, humanitarian, peacekeeping, and training operations. The DOD Center for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research at Colorado State University provides research on priority environmental problems and questions of concern to the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.
  
  Continued funding would allow ongoing research in areas such as flood forecasting in Northern Iraq and cave detection in Afghanistan. The funding will help improve understanding of environmental conditions in complex urban areas and improve forecasting of clouds and icing that impedes use of manned and unmanned aircraft. Continued funding would also allow ongoing research to improve cloud layer and base forecasts to support air-to-ground and close air support operations; improve soil moisture analysis and forecasting for vehicle mobility, mine detection, and overland transportation; improve icing and turbulence forecasts, particularly as they affect helicopters and UAVs in mountainous areas; improve wind analysis for airlift missions to cut fuel costs and to better predict dust and sandstorms; and improve realism in training and simulations to better prepare troops and equipment for the harsh terrain in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used for personnel (including faculty, administrative employees, fellows, and graduate and undergraduate student researchers), travel, supplies and software, and development of materials.

FY 2011 Energy and Water Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Entity: Colorado Division of Wildlife
  Project Name: Aquatic Nuisance Species Containment and Prevention Program
  Location: Statewide
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  The Colorado River is the "mother of all rivers." If the outbreak of aquatic nuisance species (such as the Zebra and Quagga Mussel) in the Colorado's headwaters continues to grow, these species could flow downstream and into a number of primary watershed areas throughout in the American West.
  
  Funding would help to protect hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Colorado water distribution infrastructure (dams, dikes, reservoirs, power plants, pumping plants, pipelines, tunnels, and substations). These aquatic nuisance species also have the potential to wreak serious havoc on one of Colorado's largest water distribution systems, the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (CBT). CBT provides 260,000 acre-feet of water annually to the Front Range for municipal, agricultural and industrial use.
  
  Zebra and quagga mussels are invasive aquatic species first detected in Colorado (7 waters) in 2008. Adult mussels attach to hard surfaces and can create huge colonies. These colonies constrict water flow in supply pipes, interfere with the operation of mechanical navigation devices, and reduce native mussel, fish and plankton populations.
  
  Mussel colonies clog intake pipes, trash screens, canals, aqueducts, and dams; disrupting water supplies to municipal, industrial and agricultural users. Zebra and quagga mussels also degrade water quality and can alter the taste and smell of drinking water.
  
  Specifically, this funding would allow the Colorado Division of Wildlife to inspect, decontaminate and quarantine motorized water craft in order to mitigate the impacts of aquatic nuisance species (Zebra and Quagga Mussels) in state identified contaminated and high risk water bodies, including Lake Granby, Shadow Mountain Reservoir, Grand Lake, Turquoise Lake, Twin Lake, and Dillon Reservoir.
  
• Entity: Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
  Project Name: Arkansas Valley Conduit
  Location: Pueblo, CO
  Amount Requested: $8,000,000
  The Arkansas Valley Conduit is designed to provide clean drinking water to approximately 40 cities, towns and water providers in the lower Arkansas River Valley. This project is needed so that these communities can comply with standards required by the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Conduit will begin at Pueblo Reservoir, travel east approximately 140 miles, and deliver water to the various communities along the way.
  
  The project was authorized in 1962 as part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, but it has received only limited federal funding. A local/federal cost-sharing agreement was authorized in 2009, and FY 2011 is the first year that the project is slated to receive funding in the President's budget request.
  
  At least thirteen of these water providers are currently under enforcement orders by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Enforcement, with several others on the verge of falling out of compliance. Every community that will receive water from the Conduit is currently rated below the 85 percent level of average household income for Colorado.
  
  The $3 million included in the President's budget request for the Conduit is for environmental analysis in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The current condition of the drinking water in many communities in southeastern Colorado makes compliance very difficult and expensive. The project provides an efficient, regional approach to meeting the mandates outlined in the Clean Water Act.
  
  Specifically, funding from this request will be used for feasibility design, engineering evaluations, preliminary legal investigations, and district administration and oversight. The District has verified with the Bureau of Reclamation that this additional work can be performed concurrently with the NEPA procedures.
  
• Entity: Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District
  Project Name: The Chatfield Reservoir Reallocation Project
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $225,000
  The Chatfield Reservoir Reallocation Project would create storage space for an additional 20,600 acre-feet of water in Chatfield Reservoir. This project enjoys wide support among government agencies, special districts and non-profit entities, and has found partners at the local, state and federal levels.
  
  Specifically, this funding will support the completion of the Feasibility Report (FR) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) conducted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Omaha District Civil Works Staff. This will help ensure that stored water within Chatfield becomes available for water supply and other needs in a timely manner.
  
• Entity: Colorado School of Mines
  Project Name: CO2 Sequestration Projects
  Location: Golden, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado will all house a portion of CO2 sequestration research which will be coordinated by the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory. The Front Range communities are home to the Nation's highest concentration of research and technical personnel with a deep understanding of climate change mitigation approaches and technologies. Denver is the management and technology hub of the U.S. natural gas industry which, within the borders of the State of Colorado alone, accounted for a total economic impact of $23 billion in 2006 (CERI study). With timely start-up of Rocky Mountain-centered carbon sequestration, the region could also become the hub of the emerging carbon sequestration industry.
  
  Specifically, this funding will augment the basic carbon management research that is already underway with three new pilot projects aimed at demonstrating Colorado's suitability for (1) efficient and cost-effective underground CO2 sequestration; (2) the development of high-quality performance assessment standards for CO2 sequestration; and (3) the use of biochar to increase crop yields and store CO2 in different soil types across Colorado.
  
• Entity: City of Boulder
  Project Name: Comprehensive Energy Efficiency Retrofit Program
  Location: Boulder, CO
  Amount Requested: $600,000
  This funding would help the City of Boulder establish a Comprehensive Energy Efficiency Retrofit Program, which would offer property owners rebates for energy efficient retrofits. These incentives would be combined with a comprehensive one-stop package of options to assist homeowners with conducting necessary energy retrofits and target both residential rental properties and leased business properties.
  
  Since about half of Boulder's homes are rental properties and two-thirds of its commercial units are leased, this program would significantly benefit the city by making homeowners eligible for benefits, in addition to renters and lessees.
  
  Specifically, this funding would be used for rebates and administration costs.
  
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: Greenway Feasibility Study
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $200,000
  This funding will enable the Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District to conduct a feasibility study for projects identified in a 2009 reconnaissance study on improvements to the South Platte River.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to produce a study that will evaluate a wide range of alternatives and recommend the best solutions from economic and environmental perspectives. Improvements will include: better water quality, enhanced recreation, park and open space opportunities, more conservation, increased habitat protection, and more channel stability for water delivery.
  
• Entity: Colorado School of Mines
  Project Name: Hypercast R&D Funding for Vehicle Energy Efficiency through Cast Metal Auto-Combustion Synthesis
  Location: Golden, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The Colorado School of Mines in conjunction with the North American Die Casting Association has conducted materials research to improve the fuel efficiency and cost effectiveness of producing a number of different types of vehicles.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used to develop materials and processes for casting high strength light weight frames, bodies, chassis and powertrain components for fuel efficient passenger cars, commercial trucks, and military trucks. This project will meet the goals of both the FreedomCAR and the 21st Century Truck programs. The materials and processes developed will focus on fuel efficiency and cost effectiveness without compromising component performance, cost, safety, or recyclability. The research for this project is in part being conducted at the Colorado School of Mines.
  
• Entity: Mancos Water Conservancy District
  Project Name: The Mancos Project
  Location: Mancos, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  The Mancos Project is a 61 year-old, off-river federal canal project. It was authorized in Public Law 111-11, passed by Congress and signed into law by the President in March of 2009.
  
  Rehabilitation of the Mancos Project is essential due to its advanced structural deterioration. Municipal and agricultural water is diverted to and from the Jackson Gulch Reservoir by 4.9 miles of concrete and earthen canal. Jackson Gulch Reservoir supplies domestic water to Mesa Verde National Park, the Mancos Rural Water Company, and the town of Mancos. The population of the Mancos valley is approximately 3,215 residents, including the Town of Mancos itself.
  
  Specifically, this funding would be used to address problems in the canal system's critical infrastructure, including advanced concrete deterioration; structural distress; seepage; the loss of an access road due to landslides; and additional risks of landslides.
  
• Entity: Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association
  Project Name: Selenium Management Program
  Location: Montrose, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  The Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association (UVWUA) will undertake a comprehensive Selenium Management Program (SMP), as mandated by the Programmatic Biological Opinion (PBO) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which will formalize present and future selenium reduction efforts in the Uncompahgre Valley. The SMP is an unfunded mandate that requires financial support to accomplish the primary work plan objective: "acceleration of implementation of salinity selenium control projects for irrigated agriculture." This funding will fund water quality improvements to aid in the recovery of endangered fishes in the Gunnison basin and provide overall water quality improvement in the Uncompahgre, Gunnison and Colorado Rivers in Colorado and the downstream states of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California.
  
  Specifically, this funding will be used to supplement and leverage, where available, limited monies to accelerate historical efforts to replace earthen water delivery canals and laterals with impervious pipe and liners. Impervious water delivery systems remove leakage and resultant leaching of selenium and other salts native to area soils. Requested monies will enable UVWUA to implement the required selenium reductions as well as be more competitive for allied grant opportunities and provide crucial flexibility to acquire staff, materials and equipment to increase production and installation rates.
  
• Entity: Colorado State University
  Project Name: Smart Grid Innovation Center
  Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The Smart Grid Innovation Center at Colorado State University brings together university faculty and industry personnel in facilities to develop and test "smart grid" technologies.
  
  Electric power is entering a period of dramatic transformation, bringing profound changes to its fuel production, delivery, and use. With the convergence of distributed renewable energy resources, low-cost embedded controllers and communications bandwith, the electrical power grid is on the way to becoming a smart and clean energy network. This transformation involves modernizing the nation's electric system, from central generation to customer appliances and equipment, weaving together the most productive elements of traditional infrastructure with new technologies that utilize renewable energy resources and technological advances.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for personnel costs, equipment, instrumentation, and hardware acquisition, and program administration.
  

FY 2011 Financial Services Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships Sustainability Project
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $250,000
  The Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships Training and Expansion was created in January 2004 by Mayor Hickenlooper to serve as a liaison between the City of Denver and the non-profit sector. DOSP serves as a catalyst to leverage the best of Denver's public and non-profit sectors to engage in innovate and collaborative work. The requested funding will allow DOSP to work with 30 nonprofit organizations to build their internal capacity in the areas of fundraising, financial management and strategic planning. DOSP will also facilitate the development of multi-tenant nonprofit centers in which nonprofit organizations share office space and back office functions in order to save on overhead and put more dollars into programs.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for personnel costs and development, training, and delivery for financial management programs, grant application and tracking assistance, and development of non-profit centers.
  

FY 2011 Interior Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Entity: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
  Project Name: Albert Porter Pueblo Collection Preservation
  Location: Cortez, CO
  Amount Requested: $85,625
  Albert Porter Pueblo was a social, economic, and ceremonial center for almost four centuries, from A.D 950-1300. It is one of the few places that provide evidence for interaction between two of the world's most famous archaeological areas, the Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon areas. Albert Porter Pueblo is located on permanently preserved private land that is near to several of the world's foremost archaeological monuments, including Mesa Verde National Park, Hovenweep National Monument, and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.
  
  This collection is invaluable and irreplaceable. The preservation activities funded by this request will ensure that they are available to all future generations of Americans.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to document, repackage, label, and transfer the collection to the Anasazi Heritage Center, which is managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Delores, Colorado.
  
• Entity: The Conservation Fund
  Project Name: Support President's Budget Request-- Ben Delatour Ranch
  Location: Larimer County, CO
  Amount Requested: $4,000,000
  Acquiring a conservation easement for the Ben Delatour Ranch, located 45 miles northwest of Fort Collins, CO, is the Colorado State Forest Service's top priority for Fiscal Year 2011 in the Forest Legacy Program. The project was listed as a top priority for the Administration in the Forest Legacy Program budget for FY 2011. This 3,200-acre ranch protects the significant environmental, economic and social values of private forestlands in Colorado and across the country.
  
  Ben Delatour displays all the qualities of active forest management, due to fifty years of responsible stewardship by the Longs Peak Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and the property serves as a vital learning environment for forestry students from Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, and Front Range Community College.
  
  A significant benefit of this project is the potential to mitigate the threat and cost of fighting wildfires in this area by preventing future residential development along several miles bordering the Roosevelt National Forest. Situated between two large tracts of the Roosevelt National Forest, the Ben Delatour Scout Ranch provides critical wildlife corridors, summer and winter range, and habitat for species of concern including the Preble's meadow jumping mouse.
  
• Entity: The Conservation Fund
  Project Name: Support President's Budget Request- Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
  Location: Montezuma County, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,521,000
  The $2,521,000 requested in the Preident's Fiscal Year 2011 budget for the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument will enable the Bureau of Land Management to acquire 1,800 acres of private land from five willing sellers within the boundary of the Monument. These properties contain outstanding cultural and archeological sites, stretches of the rare perennial Yellow Jacket Creek, as well as recreational areas. Located in southwest Colorado near Cortez, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument contains the highest concentration of cultural sites in the nation and offers unparalleled opportunities to observe study and experience cultures of the American Southwest. Acquisition of these inholdings is consistent with the Bureau of Land Management's mandate to protect the cultural objects and natural resources within the National Monument.
  
  Canyons of the Ancients National Monument was established by Presidential Proclamation on June 9, 2000, under the authority of The Antiquities Act, 16 U.S.C. 431, to protect cultural and natural resources on a landscape scale.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for land acquisition.
  
• Entity: Central City, Colorado and the Wilderness Land Trust
  Project Name: Support President's Budget Request-- Little Echo Lake
  Location: Gilpin County, CO
  Amount Requested: $950,000
  Central City, Colorado is working with The Wilderness Land Trust and the United States Forest Service on the sale and purchase of the 320-acre Little Echo Lake property in Gilpin County, Colorado. This project is funded in the FY 2011 budget request at $950,000.
  
  The property is surrounded on three sides by the James Peak Wilderness Area, and the purchase of the parcels is crucial for legal access into the east side of the James Peak Wilderness. The parcels contain abundant riparian habitat, Little Echo Lake, and an extremely visible mountain ridge. The purchase of the parcels would make it possible to expand the wilderness to include this environmentally sensitive watershed and preclude any development threat and management conflicts. Once purchased by the Forest Service, the goal is to add this property to the adjacent Wilderness.
  
  The James Peak Wilderness is an extremely popular wilderness for outdoor recreation in close proximity to the Front Range and population centers such as Denver, Boulder, Jefferson County and Gilpin County. The James Peak Trail and access to the Continental Divide Trail both cross this property.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for land acquisition.
  
• Entity: Trust for Public Land
  Project Name: Ophir Valley in the Uncompahgre National Forest
  Location: Ophir, CO
  Amount Requested: $4,300,000
  This funding would allow the Forest Service to acquire all of the remaining acres out of a total 1,145 acres of patented mining claims that had been under one ownership in the Ophir Valley. Federal appropriations provided in previous years have allowed the Forest Service to begin acquiring these mining claims, and the requested $4.3 million in FY 2011 will allow the agency to purchase the final 445 acres.
  
  The Trust for Public Land has purchased the property from the original landowner and has an option agreement with the Forest Service to sell the mining claims to the federal agency for inclusion in the Uncompahgre National Forest. The ongoing acquisition protects critical habitat, maintains high-quality recreational opportunities on public lands, protects water quality, and helps maintain the quality of life of the region's residents.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for land acquisition.
  
• Entity: Southern Ute Indian Tribe
  Project Name: Pine River Indian Irrigation Project (PRIIP)
  Location: Ignacio, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The project would rehabilitate the aging irrigation infrastructure serving Native American communities in southwestern Colorado. Parts of the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project (PRIIP) are over 100 years old and are in serious decline.
  
  The maintenance backlog for the PRIIP has been estimated at $20 million to $60 million, and the requested funding would be used to start long overdue rehabilitation work.
  
  The federal government has a stake in this project because a) it is a federal irrigation project (Bureau of Indian Affairs) supplied in part by a federal Bureau of Reclamation reservoir, b) the government would be stepping up to meet a small part of its overdue trust obligation relative to the Southern Ute Tribe's irrigation project, c) the improved efficiency of water use would be a benefit to a large part of the western U.S. and d) the improved use of water would play a part in serving to reduce the potential for interstate conflict on the Colorado River system.
  
  Specifically, $450,000 would be used for engineering services and development of engineering designs. $1,500,000 would be used to implement construction work.
  
• Entity: Town of Rico
  Project Name: Technical Fix for EPA STAG Grant
  Location: Rico, CO
  Amount Requested: N/A
  In Feburary 2006 the Town of Rico applied for and was awarded a EPA/STAG Grant for $964,300 to use toward a proposed town wide sewer infrastructure project, however following additional cost-estimates the Town concluded the sewer project to be non-feasible. Instead the Town requested from EPA the ability to use the grant for a new proposed water infrastructure project. On November 19, 2008 the town received an extension for the existing awarded $964,300 grant from EPA until December 2011.
  
  That EPA no longer has the authority to present a request to change awarded EPA/STAG grants from a Sewer Infrastructure project to a Water Infrastructure project. This change must be made statutorily. There is no new cost associated with this technical fix.
  
• Entity: Water Research Foundation
  Project Name: Water Research Foundation
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  The Water Research Foundation, headquartered in Denver, CO, is the largest nonprofit drinking water research foundation in the world, and has sponsored research to make drinking water clean, affordable and available to the international public. The Water Research Foundation has received federal funding since 1983, and the foundation's members represent 80 percent of the drinking water supply in the United States. Research at the foundation is focused on applied research on cost effective technologies to enhance drinking water quality. Other research areas include the most pressing drinking water issues such as the impacts of pharmaceutical/EDCs in water; the uncertainties associated with climate change events; the remediation of quagga and zebra mussels; drought response; desalination; wastewater reuse; preparing for natural disasters; replacing aging drinking water systems; increased energy efficiencies; and treating water contaminants.
  
  The foundation's subscribers are mostly public water utilities. The primary beneficiaries of this funding therefore are the consumers, as the findings from the Foundation's research are disseminated to those utilities and the cities charged with supplying our water and protecting public health. Research findings are free to local, state, and federal agencies nationwide. In Colorado, the Foundation has partnered with Colorado universities, public water utilities and other entities to conduct over $60 million in research on drinking water issues specific to Colorado's needs.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to conduct ongoing research to help water utilities plan for future challenges to the Nation's water supply.
  
• Entity: City of Trinidad
  Project Name: Water Storage Project
  Location: Trinidad, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  These funds would help the City of Trinidad meet Colorado State Office of Water Engineer's requirements for maintaining drinking water storage levels. This water serves the City of Trinidad as well as rural water associations in Las Animas County.
  
  Trinidad's current water infrastructure has been flagged as a high hazard by the State of Colorado.
  
  Specifically, this funding would be used for construction and engineering costs associated with a new drinking water storage facility.
  
• Entity: City of Sterling, Colorado
  Project Name: Water Treatment System Project
  Location: Sterling, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The City of Sterling, CO has a harmful amount of uranium and total trihalomethanes in its water. This contamination has generated an enforcement action by the State of Colorado and the Environmental Protection Agency.
  
  The funds will be used for the construction of a new drinking water treatment plant to remove the contaminants existing in the water supply, thus allowing the City to provide potable water to the citizens that meets federal and state drinking water standards.
  
  The project will allow the City to provide clean safe drinking water to the citizens including the Sterling Correctional Facility.
  
• Entity: Town of Red Cliff, Colorado
  Project Name: Technical fiscal agent Fix for EPA STAG Grant
  Location: Red Cliff, CO
  Amount Requested: N/A
  In 2008 /FY 2009 the Town of Red Cliff via Eagle County applied for and was awarded an EPA/STAG Grant for $800,000 to use toward Red Cliff's Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrades to eliminate excess waste water discharges into the Eagle River. Upgrades will help avoid further degradation of the Eagle River's water quality and its related risks to human health, increased costs for water treatment for downstream users and the local recreation based economy.
  
  A technical fix is requested to change the grant award recipient (fiscal agent) from Eagle County to the Town of Red Cliff. Eagle County working on the Town of Red Cliff's behalf used a lobbyist with the original application who incorrectly listed the County as the recipient instead of the Town of Red Cliff which is a statutory town in the state of Colorado. Eagle County cannot directly move the funding/ grant awarded ($800,000) to the Town of Red Cliff for the waste water treatment plant upgrades.
  
  The EPA no longer has the authority to present a request to change awarded EPA/STAG grants from Eagle County as the fiscal Agent to the Town of Red Cliff as the new fiscal agent. This change must be made statutorily. There is no new cost associated with this technical fix.
  

FY 2011 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Entity:  The Children's Hospital
  Project Name:  Data Management and Reporting Enhancements
  Location:  Aurora, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,000,000
  In an effort to more broadly utilize evidence based and data driven medical practices, The Children's Hospital is undertaking a data management & reporting effort.  The primary goals of this effort are to improve patient outcomes and reduce the overall cost of care.  Information from this data management & reporting effort will be used by physicians and researchers to monitor clinical and operational activities, formulate medical guidelines and protocols and monitor patient results. Additionally, this solution will be constructed in a flexible manner with the goal of supporting currently unforeseen pediatric research needs.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for computer hardware, software, and personnel costs. 
• Entity: Colorado State University-Pueblo
  Project Name: STEM Education Program for Southern Colorado
  Location: Pueblo, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $125,000
  Funding will be used to encourage students in southern CO, especially rural and minority students, to learn about and pursue studies and careers in the science, technology, education and mathematic (STEM) fields.  This project is designed to address the challenge of education reform, academic preparation in math and science and will work to increase the number of minority graduates in the STEM disciplines.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for programming, personnel, research, and materials. 
• Entity:  Denver Health
  Project Name:  Biplane Catheterization Laboratory
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $495,000
  In 2011, Denver Health will need to purchase a biplane catheterization laboratory. The current lab was obtained about 5 years ago but was purchased used, so it is outdated.
  
  A biplane catheterization laboratory is used for cardiac ablations as well as peripheral stent placement for limb restoration. Patients both requiring cardiac ablations, placement of defibrillators and persons who are at risk for amputation due to poor circulation will greatly benefit from this new lab.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used purchase equipment.
• Entity:  The Denver Hospice
  Project Name:  The Care Center at Lowry
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,000,000
  The Care Center at Lowry is a major part of The Denver Hospice's broader investment in infrastructure, clinical capacity, and innovation to meet the rapidly increasing need for quality end-of-life care in Colorado and the nation. Denver Hospice will use the facility to improve patient and family care; enhance the skills of current clinical staff; increase recruitment and retention of qualified clinical and administrative staff; streamline operations; and achieve cost savings in targeted areas. For the field at large, the evidence-based practices Denver Hospice expects to perform can be replicated, adapted, and expanded nationally. 
  
  The Care Center facility under construction is using "green" materials and technology and will include state of the art energy efficient equipment; a Veterans' Wing; an education and training center, patient and family areas, and room for expansion as the need grows for in-patient hospice services within the community.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for construction.
• Entity:  Falcon School District 49
  Project Name:  STEM Education Pipeline Initiative
  Location:  Falcon, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $2,099,864
  The Falcon School District 49 (FSD49) STEM Education Pipeline Initiative will provide STEM professional development for over 100 classroom teachers; STEM curricula for more than 3,500 elementary, middle and high school students; equip three schools with 21st century technology and equipment and STEM labs; create three full-time STEM related education jobs; and provide STEM internship opportunities for high school seniors and provide advance college credit opportunities for high school juniors and seniors. FSD49 is partnering with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Center for STEM Education, the Museum of Science and the National Center for Technological Literacy, AGI Corporation, and the Western Colorado Science and Math Center, to provide research-based and proven-effective professional development and curricula for three STEM focus schools, and to perform research on the effectiveness of the program. In addition, FSD49 is in the formative stages of a partnership with the U.S. Space Foundation located in Colorado Springs.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for STEM curricula, compensation for project managers, the purchase of technology equipment, and to maintain the current STEM curricular elements.
• Entity:  Fort Lewis College
  Project Name:  Tribal Nations Program
  Location:  Durango, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  Fort Lewis College is only one of two state colleges in the nation to provide tuition free education to Native American students. The Tribal Nations Program will provide experiential learning to students at the request of tribal governments and organizations in the Four Corners Region and nationally. Courses will be taught on tribal sovereignty, economic development, health care, natural resource development, and governance.
  Specifically, funds would be used to develop curriculum and materials, support faculty, and publish and disseminate research. 
• Entity:  Global Down Syndrome Foundation
  Project Name:  Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome Research at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
  Location:  Aurora, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $1,500,000
  The Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (LCI) is an emerging, world-class research facility dedicated to basic and clinical research, as well as clinical care for children, adolescents, and adults with Down syndrome. The Institute is a partnership between the University of Colorado-Denver School of Medicine, the University of Colorado at Boulder, The Children's Hospital in Aurora Colorado, and the Anna and John J. Sie Foundation.  The Global Down Syndrome Foundation is a public 501(c)3 created to raise funds and support the LCI.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for equipment.
• Entity:  History Colorado
  Project Name:  From Student to Citizen Initiative
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $325,000
  History Colorado's From Student to Citizen Initiative will create multi-disciplinary social studies curricula for dissemination throughout the state, ensuring underserved schools and students have access to high quality, standards-based social studies education. Based on the new state model and content standards aimed at developing 21st century learning skills, these materials and curricula will be available through History Colorado sites, as well as through libraries and community organizations throughout the state, ensuring that every Colorado student is within 50 miles of a History Colorado experience.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to develop content.
• Entity: Mental Crisis Services
  Project Name: Metro Crisis Services
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $845,000
  Funds for this project will go towards building a crisis center facility that would operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and to purchase a Health Information Exchange/Electronic Health Record System.  Other than local hospital emergency departments, there is no crisis care service operating in any of the seven Metro Denver counties.  The core services of the Metro Crisis (Triage) initiative will include: 1) crisis counseling; 2) professional mental health and substance abuse assessments; 3) urgent psychiatric care; 4) overnight stabilization; and 5) follow-up support.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for construction and equipment. 
• Entity:  Metropolitan State College of Denver
  Project Name:  Metro State Aviation and Aerospace Science Department Flight Training Program
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  Metro State's Aviation and Aerospace Science Department (AVS) is addressing employment demands in Colorado and the nation for professional pilots with the technical skills and knowledge required by airline and corporate industries to fly regional jet aircraft. The program has a need for two flight training devices to be used to educate and train students in preparation for employment in regional jet operations. The flight training devices will be an essential component to the senior capstone classes offered by AVS to students seeking a B.S. in Aviation Technology Professional Flight Officer.  Students using the devices will train, demonstrate, and be evaluated for the flight skills necessary for related job interviews and placement.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for equipment. 
• Entity: National Jewish Health
  Project Name: Institute for Lung Health           
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The Institute for Lung Health would serve as a singular and comprehensive national resource on matters of lung health, research, and development.  The mission of the Institute will be to perform basic and translational research aimed at understanding human lung biology and to transform and practically implement the practice of preventative and personalized medicine.  The Institute will allow National Jewish to revolutionize the prevention and current diagnosis and treatment options for Colorado and the nation for diseases such as lung cancer, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and other acute and chronic lung diseases. 
  
  National Jewish is the leading respiratory medical center in the United States. 
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for construction and equipment. 
• Entity:  North Colorado Medical Center
  Project Name:  Breast Health Center
  Location:  Greeley, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The North Colorado Medical Center Cancer Institute is a model of excellence for cancer care for the patient and family. The goal of the program is to deliver comprehensive, highly skilled, holistic patient care for patients undergoing a variety of treatments. 
  
  Cancer remains an important health concern around the world, and is the second leading cause of death in the United States. In 2008, there were nearly 1.5 million new cases of cancer diagnosed with 19,000 of those identified in Colorado residents. Cancer also claimed 566,000 lives in 2008 with 6,700 of those deaths occurring in Colorado.  The Cancer Institute identifies nearly 700 new patients annually.  Since the 1951, the Cancer Institute has treated over 24,000 patients with 17,000 of those patients being Weld County residents.
  
  The institute is continually striving to stay abreast of new technologies and provide the latest in diagnosis and treatment.  Advances in screening, early-detection, treatment options, management of cancer, and rehabilitation enable many patients to live productively, and to successfully cope with a potentially life-threatening disease.   As a result, the institute is seeking funding for equipment upgrades that will allow NCMC to provide a seamless level of care as cancer patients are treated at NCMC.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to purchase two new digital mammography machines and an MRI machine upgrade. 
• Entity:  Parkview Medical Center
  Project Name:  Emergency Department Expansion and Enhancement
  Location:  Pueblo, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,000,000
  Parkview Medical Center seeks to expand and enhance the services provided in its emergency room.  Parkview's emergency department was built to adequately care for 40,000 patients annually, yet the facility is on track to serve over 60,000 patients this year.  The average daily census in the emergency room has nearly doubled in the past 9 years, going from 89 per day to 161 per day. ER patients being admitted to the hospital wait an average of 62 minutes to be transferred to an inpatient area, creating a challenge in being able to serve more patients, and longer waiting times for patients seeking emergency care.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for construction and equipment. 
• Entity:  San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center
  Project Name:  Electronic Medical Records at San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center
  Location:  Alamosa, CO
  Amount Requested:  $832,938
  This project will provide funds to complete the implementation of an electronic medical record system at the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center (SLVRMC).  SLVRMC is the only full service hospital in the San Luis Valley and provides approximately one third of the primary care and over 90% of the specialty care to the residents in the Valley.
  
  SLVRMC provided $4,643,805 of charity care, not including bad debt ($5,546,084) in the 2008-2009 fiscal year. With over 72% of its income from patients who are Medicaid/Medicare or self insured, SLVRMC cannot afford to purchase all the necessary components needed for a fully operational EMR system. Completion of this project is essential to strengthen the safety and quality of health care services in the San Luis Valley.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to purchase the equipment and complete the implementation of an EMR system.
• Entity:  Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center, Inc.
  Project Name:  The Cortez Clinic
  Location:  Durango, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,000,000
  The Cortez Clinic is a new facility that will combine primary and behavioral health care into a single practice.  The Clinic's aim is not simply to co-locate services; rather, it will develop a single practice capable of serving as a health care home. Services will be built around the existing population of patients. The integrated health care model will use the structure and pace of the primary care/specialty care model and transform it by infusing mental health, substance abuse and public health.  Following construction, the Cortez Clinic will sustain itself through ongoing operations. The Center will combine revenue available from existing funding streams with additional public and private payer sources that reimburse primary care claims. Its Rural Health Clinic (RHC) status will enhance primary care reimbursement for the Medicaid and Medicare populations.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for facilities and equipment.
• Entity:  University of Northern Colorado
  Project Name:  The Education Innovation Institute
  Location:  Greeley, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  The Education Innovation Institute is an independent, nonpartisan capacity-building initiative that works to enhance the nation's capacity to prepare successful global citizens, to expand the capacity of existing education research and policy to inform meaningful change, and to build the nation's capacity to improve education. The University's comprehensive, collaborative approach leverages the knowledge of expert researchers, policymakers and practitioners throughout Colorado and the nation. The institute is committed to providing valuable, unbiased research, analyses and recommendations that create sustainable improvement in education through these collaborations.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used to continue research and analysis in order to produce comprehensive recommendations to improve education at a global level.
• Entity:  University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  Project Name:  Southern Colorado Higher Education Consortium Veterans' Educational Assistance Program
  Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  The Southern Colorado Higher Education Consortium Veterans' Educational Assistance Program will develop and implement a model access, persistence and completion program in Southern Colorado for veterans and their families. The Program aims to increase the higher education participation and completion rate of veterans in the region, particularly those aged 35 and under, and consistent with the purposes of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, enhance the employability of these veterans and stimulate economic growth in the region.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for direct costs related to the program and salaries and benefits for three employees.
• Entity:  University of Colorado Denver
  Project Name:  The Health Professions Pipeline for Rural Colorado
  Location:  Aurora, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $575,000
  The Physician Pipeline for Rural Colorado to expose a cohort of 48 to 60 “rural track” medical students and all 160 regular medical students each year to a smaller community setting, encouraging them to establish their practices and provide primary care to the underserved regions of rural and remote Colorado. Through their training in rural communities, students will receive a better understanding of the context of their patients, not only providing them an education based on applied medical science, but also providing them with higher quality healthcare from physicians who understand the rural culture.  The goal of the project is to support the development of 12-15 new rural physicians a year. The project would also partially support 30-50 jobs for program coordinators and preceptors responsible for the curriculum.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to program and housing costs, faculty development, and community engagement

FY 2011 Military Construction Authorization/Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Project Name: 10th Special Forces Group Language Laboratory
  Request: $6,500,000
  Project Location: Fort Carson, Colorado
  Project Description: One of the primary missions of the United States Army Special Forces is training and advising foreign indigenous forces. In order to carry out this mission, Special Forces soldiers must demonstrate proficiency in at least one foreign language. The current language laboratory for the 10th Special Forces Group is too small and is located in borrowed space nearly three miles from the Special Forces Compound. The Garrison needs the space back by October 2009. The 10th SFG has selected a site for a new language laboratory that will include classrooms, a library, a lecture hall, a distance-learning laboratory, and administrative offices. The project is the FYDP for 2014, but the Army Corps of Engineers will support it if it is funded earlier than that.
  
• Project Name: Airman and Family Readiness Center/Chapel
  Request: $9,900,000
  Project Location: Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado
  Project Description: There is currently no facility on Schriever Air Force Base or appropriate space outside the restricted area to hold large community functions. A new Airman and Family Readiness Center/Chapel would provide space for a chapel sanctuary, as well as space for family support, counseling, and education. This project is in the FYDP for 2012, but without expedited construction, Schriever Air Force Base will continue to provide minimum-and inadequate-support for military families.
  
• Project Name: Center for Character & Leadership Development
  Request: $3,750,000
  Project Location: United States Air Force Academy, Colorado
  Project Description: A project is underway at the U.S. Air Force Academy to design and build an iconic structure in the cadet area to house the Center for Character and Leadership Development. The building concept was conceived by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill's New York office, the architectural company that was responsible for designing the Air Force Academy in the 1950s. For the first time, all Center functions will be housed in a single facility. The new facility will feature a central Forum topped by an energy-efficient skylight-a flexible space unlike any in an existing Academy building. It will also house the Honor Boardroom and spaces for the Cadet Wing Honor Chairperson and Wing Character Officer, plus their staffs. This project is funded in the President's FY 2011 budget request at $27,600,000. However, of that funding, only $22,400,000 is available for the actual initial construction of the project, due to Air Force taxes, additional construction costs/profits, and other various fees that have added to the project cost. As a result, an additional $3,750,000 is needed to make the building operational.
  
• Project Name: Fitness Center Annex
  Request: $12,800,000
  Project Location: Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
  Project Description: Funding will be used to provide adequate fitness center space. Due to Peterson's growth over recent years, the existing Fitness Center is too small. Expansion includes installment of an indoor running track, weight, cardio, and multi-purpose group exercise rooms, lockers, equipment storage, and administrative space. Improvements will enhance mission readiness and is critical to the Fit-to-Fight program.
  
• Project Name: Land Acquisition
  Request: $10,000,000
  Project Location: Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado
  Project Description: Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado is surrounded by a growing community. To ensure mission capabilities and safety, Buckley Air Force Base would like to acquire roughly 191 acres of land immediately adjacent to the base to permanently protect the clear zone and eliminate any potential hazards to the flying mission. The purchase of this land is critical to the safety of flying missions and to meeting anti-terrorism and force protection requirements. As development continues in the surrounding community, pilots at Buckley face a more difficult task of successful take off and landing. Providing funds for land acquisition will better protect our pilots and better enable Buckley to meet its responsibilities.
  
• Project Name: Regional Training Institute
  Request: $3,193,000 above the President's Budget Request
  Project Location: Fort Carson, Colorado
  Project Description: The Colorado Army National Guard has a critical educational facility, the Regional Training Institute (RTI), in the FY11 budget. In the Budget Estimate submitted to Congress in February 2010, the programmed amount for this project was reduced by $3,193,000. This request is to correct this to enable the National Guard to build this project per the programming documents. The President's FY11 budget request for this facility is $40,000,000. When the 4th Infantry Division was reassigned to Fort Carson, the need for a military educational facility was realized and combined with the needs of the National Guard and Army Reserve. The Colorado National Guard was selected to operate the first multi-component professional military education facility in the Army. RTI is a Colorado National Guard schoolhouse, but it is unique in that it is located on an active duty installation. RTI now has an annual throughput of approximately 2,500 students across all components, of which approximately 75% are members of the Active Army, 15% are members of the National Guard, and 10% are members of the Army Reserve. RTI is currently housed in converted 1950s-era barracks. The new facility has been planned since 2005. A reduction of $3.193 million for the project will cut into billeting footage and hamper the ability to train both Active and Reserve Component Soldiers.
  
• Project Name: Repair Taxiway Juliet and Lima
  Request: $4,000,000
  Project Location: Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado
  Project Description: This project will repair the alternate alert parking area and taxi lanes that access the runway to facilitate normal aircraft movement from the main ramp to the runway, eliminating unsafe wingtip clearance conditions and significant foreign object damage danger to engines. The alert mission construction in response to the September 11th attack caused a bottleneck for normal movement of aircraft, which inhibits safe movement to and from the runway for general purpose F-16 training missions. Realigning the existing taxiway that became unusable following construction of the alert mission area and widening pavement will permit aircraft to taxi around parked alert mission aircraft. Without the project, the airmen of the 140th Wing, Colorado Air National Guard will only have one route for access to the runway by F-16 aircraft. Construction of this project will ensure the airfield pavements in question are in compliance with criteria for taxiing and maneuvering aircraft and that the 140th Wing is capable of completing its air sovereignty mission.
  
• Project Name: Support the President's Budget Request-- VA Hospital at Fitzsimmons
  Request: $450,700,000
  Project Location: Aurora, Colorado
  Project Description: The President's budget request includes $450.7 million for construction of a new hospital in Colorado. This state-of-the-art facility received $119 million in FY2010, which allowed construction to commence on this long-awaited hospital. The amount included in the President's budget will cover more than half of the total funding needed to complete the project. The stand-alone medical center will offer comprehensive specialty care to Colorado's veterans, along with a full range of medical, laboratory, research and counseling services. This facility will meet the needs of veterans throughout the Rocky Mountain region for years to come.
  
• Project Name: Support the President's Budget Request-- Pueblo Chemical Depot
  Request: $65,570,000
  Project Location: Pueblo, Colorado
  Project Description: The President's budget request includes $65,570,000 for chemical weapons destruction facilities at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in southern Colorado, which will enable DOD to complete weapons neutralization and biotreatment activity at the Pueblo Depot by the Congressionally mandated deadline of 2017. Proposed FY11 funding would go toward the completion of equipment installation and instrumentation for the Agent Processing Building (APB), Laboratory, and Biotreatment Area, and continue construction of the Enhanced Reconfiguration Building (ERB), ensuring that the facility stays on track to destroy these weapons on-site and on-time. The Pueblo Chemical Depot holds 2,611 tons of liquid mustard agent.
  

FY 2011 Transportation and Housing Appropriations Requests

Requests Submitted

• Entity: Bent County
  Project Name: U.S. 50-CO 194 Road Construction
  Location: Las Animas, CO
  Amount Requested: $10,600,000
  This request is for construction of a road in Bent County, Colorado that would connect US 50 northward across the Arkansas River to State Highway 194, a distance of about 1.5 miles. The road would improve access to Bent County's Old Fort National Historic Site and provide an improved transportation link for visitors, local residents and emergency services. It would improve safety by moving park visitor traffic off SH 194 and would also provide alternate routes in the event of flooding of the Arkansas River. The National Park Service estimates that the new road would increase visitation to the park by 25 to 40%, contributing significantly to the depressed economic base of the region, especially the gateway communities of La Junta and Las Animas. The project has been a high priority for Otero and Bent Counties and the Southeast Transportation Planning Commission for many years.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for construction of the 1.5 mile, two-lane, asphalt surfaced road including a multi-span concrete bridge. In 2007, the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) completed the Environmental Assessment at the 30% completion phase of the project (line, grade, environmental compliance and public comment). A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was signed in February 2008. During final public hearings prior to issuance of the FONSI, the FHWA noted that, to complete the project, an appropriation would be necessary to complete the road and bridge design (approximately $600,000) and for construction ($8,000,000 to $10,000,000).
  
  Because this funding is on federal land, it does not conflict with priorities laid out by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP).
• Entity: Colorado Association of Transit Agencies (CASTA)
  Project Name: Statewide Bus Purchases and Facility Improvements
  Location: Statewide, CASTA Headquartered in Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $15,000,000
  Amount received in FY 2010: $2,641,500
  This is a statewide request on behalf of 27 transit providers for Section 5309 discretionary bus and bus facilities capital funds to support the bus purchases and facility improvements necessary to provide safe, reliable and adequate transit service to Coloradans. These transit agencies provide essential connections to employment, commercial and activity centers, as well as to schools and medical centers, in addition to providing mobility solutions for transit dependent populations including many of Colorado's senior citizens.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used to purchase new vehicles and improve current facilities.
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: Denver Civic Center Park Renovation
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  Denver's Civic Center is one of the most complete and intact cultural and government centers in the country. The park has been used for concerts, events, and community gatherings for the past eighty years and is one of only two park units within Denver's system listed on the National Register of Historic Places with national significance.
  
  In 2005, the Department of Parks and Recreation completed a comprehensive master plan of Civic Center to define a long-term, cohesive vision for downtown Denver's key urban park. Currently, the City and County of Denver is investing in the park's historic resources by restoring and rehabilitating the nearly 100 year-old Voorhies Memorial and Greek Theater structures.
  
  Specifically, funding is needed to (1) implement new physical features that will complete the vision for Civic Center and ensure its use as an active urban space; (2) improve pedestrian connections to downtown Denver and government/ cultural institutions within the Civic Center District; (3) restore and rehabilitate the exterior and interior of the historic McNichols Building (formerly Carnegie Library).
• Entity: City of Westminster
  Project Name: Westminster Center Urban Reinvestment Project
  Location: Westminster, CO
  Amount Requested: $550,000
  The Westminster Center Urban Reinvestment Project is a City-led project to redevelop an obsolete, blighted area including a deteriorating mall property with an unsustainable 70 percent vacancy rate. The initiative, which has been adopted as part of a 5-year strategic plan and fully endorsed by the City Council and the Westminster Economic Development Authority, has broad community support. The Initiative will redevelop this blighted property with minimal employment of 300 to a new high-density, mixed-use urban center supporting employment levels in the 3,500 - 4,000 range with a particular long term focus on environmental sustainability, economic growth, and transit connectivity.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for land acquisition, necessary demolition, and engineering and planning costs.
• Entity: Denver Regional Transportation District
  Project Name: East Corridor
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: Support the President's Budget Request of $40,000,000, and increase funding by $91,000,000 to a total of $131,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $2,500,000
  This funding would enable RTD to begin construction of the East Corridor. The President's Budget, pursuant to the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) recommendation for a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA), included $40 million in funding for the East Corridor in FY2011. RTD could put $91 million more than that to use this year.
  
  The East Corridor is a 22.7-mile commuter rail corridor extending from Denver Union Station on the western end, providing service east to Denver International Airport. It is a critical component of RTD's 12-year comprehensive transit service and facility expansion called FasTracks, which was approved by the voters in November 2004. The East Corridor will be constructed as part of the larger RTD project known as the East and Gold Line Enterprise (Eagle Project) public private partnership. It is projected to carry an average of 43,380 daily passengers by 2030.
  
  All funds are for construction. Overall the total project cost is $1.765 billion. The federal share of the total project costs is 48.2% ($850 million). Additional funding beyond the President's request would not increase the amount of funding included in the federal share. Rather, it would expedite funding that RTD could put to use immediately.
• Entity: Denver Regional Transportation District
  Project Name: Gold Line
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: Support the President's Budget Request of $40,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $2,000,000
  RTD requests $40 million to begin construction of the Gold Line, the amount included in the President's Budget pursuant to the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) recommendation for a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) in FY2011. The Gold Line is a 10.8-mile commuter rail corridor extending from Denver Union Station on the southern end, extending north and west through Denver, Adams County, Arvada, and to an end-of-line in Wheat Ridge. It is a critical component of RTD's 12-year comprehensive transit service and facility expansion called FasTracks, which was approved by the voters in November 2004. The Gold Line will be constructed as part of the larger RTD project known as the East and Gold Line Enterprise (EAGLE Project) public private partnership. The Gold Line is projected to carry an average of 20,100 daily riders by 2030.
  
  All funds are for construction. Overall the total project cost is $715.53 million. The federal share of total project costs is 25.2% ($180 million).
• Entity: Denver Regional Transportation District
  Project Name: West Corridor
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: Support the President's Budget request of $40,179,000
  Amount received in FY 2010: $90,000,000
  RTD requests $40,179,000 to continue construction of the West Corridor. The FTA signed a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) for the West Corridor on January 16, 2009 for $308,600,000. The request is the amount remaining under the FFGA and included in the President's Budget for FY11.
  
  The West Corridor is a 12-mile light rail line with 12 stations, extending from Denver Union Station on the eastern end, providing service west through Denver, Lakewood, Jefferson County and Golden, with a major Intermodal facility at the Denver Federal Center. It will serve major jobs centers including the Jefferson County Courthouse and the Denver Federal Center. The West Corridor is a component of RTD's comprehensive transit service and facility expansion called FasTracks, which was approved by the voters in November 2004.
  
  Anticipated project action in FY2011 is as follows:
  - Right-of-way acquisition to be completed in 2010.
  - Utility relocation to be completed in 2010.
  - Bridges at Colfax and Wadsworth and tunnels at 1-70 and Union to be completed in 2010.
  - Construction at Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Wadsworth, 6th Avenue, Indiana, and Colfax bridges and the I-70 tunnel to continue in 2010.
  - Construction to begin on light rail bridges at Platte River and Consolidated Mainline in 2010.
  - Drainage and roadwork to continue in 2010.
• Entity: Jefferson County, CO
  Project Name: Technical Correction for FY 2009 and FY 2010 Funding for Homeless Veterans' Housing Project
  Location: Jefferson County, CO
  Amount Requested: N/A
  Jefferson County is seeking to clarify language related to its FY 2009 and FY 2010 congressionally-directed spending awards for a homeless veterans' housing project. This request does not involve funding; just a language clarification that will provide the flexibility the county needs to undertake the project.
  
  For both these awards, Jefferson County would like the purpose in the legislative language to read, “For the Jefferson County Department of Human Services in Colorado, to enter into a contract with an organization to construct, or purchase and renovate, housing for homeless veterans in Jefferson County.”
• Entity: Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA)
  Project Name: VelociRFTA Bus Rapid Transit
  Location: Mountain Village, CO
  Amount Requested: Support the President's Budget Request of $24,163,000
  Amount received in FY 2010 (if any): $810,000
  The Roaring Fork Valley BRT project (which RFTA has branded "VelociRFTA BRT") will connect Glenwood Springs and Aspen, Colorado, in the State Highway 82 corridor and provide safe, convenient, and attractive transit services for commuters. The BRT route will be operated with low-floor transit buses and serve nine stations along the corridor and two additional drop-off stops in downtown Aspen. The stations will include efficient bus access to and from the highway, shelters and benches, real time bus arrival information, information kiosks and lighting. Commuter parking will be provided at six stations. During peak periods, BRT buses will depart each station every ten minutes and will be complemented by local bus service and limited direct express service.
  
  The VelociRFTA BRT project has an estimated total capital cost of $43.967 million, of which the Federal share is $24.973 million. The estimated local share is $18.994 million and is available because RFTA issued bonds in 2009.
  
  This project received $810,000 in the FY2010 Transportation - HUD Appropriations Bill. Securing the President's FY2011 budget request of $24,163,000 for this project will complete the federal commitment of $24,973,000 for this project.
• Entity: Ute Mountain Housing Authority
  Project Name: Affordable Housing for Tribal Members
  Location: Durango, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  This request will provide affordable housing for Ute Mountain Ute tribal members. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has designated 200 acres of trust land for future home sites. This is the first phase of a 20-year project to build homes for the growing population. Phase 1 consists of water and sewer construction, roads construction, developing the power grid, and planning for the construction of 25 homes. The project will sustain and create new jobs with the construction of these new homes in Montezuma County, which has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state. It is expected to last one to three years.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for infrastructure construction.

2010 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) Requests

Every few years, Congress authorizes water infrastructure projects through the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). WRDA authorizes, but does not fund, projects related to navigation channels, flood protection, and ecosystem restoration. These projects are carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Members of Congress have the opportunity to request that certain projects in their state be considered for authorization. I believe it is important to make sure federal programs serve the needs of the people of Colorado, and I have requested authorization for the following projects in the 2010 WRDA bill.

Authorization is a first step in the funding process for water projects. In order to receive funding, these projects will have to receive funding in an annual Energy and Water appropriations bill.

Requests Submitted

• Project Name: Animas River Environmental Bank Restoration and In-Channel Stabilization
  Location Sponsor: City of Durango, CO
  Location: Durango, CO
  Corps District: Sacramento
  Amount Requested: $100,000
  The City of Durango is requesting $100,000 for a resource analysis of the Animas River under section 905(b) of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1986. This funding would support bank restoration and in-stream stabilization planning efforts along a 7-mile stretch of the river. The area in question contributes significantly to the local economy by providing fishing, boating and other recreational opportunities. Currently, bank erosion and the resultant sedimentation are threatening the river’s vegetation and fish habitat.
• Project Name: City of Brighton, Colorado for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
  Location Sponsor: City of Brighton, CO
  Location: Brighton, CO
  Corps District: Omaha
  Amount Requested: $1,950,000
  This project will aid the development of the South Brighton Growth Area by providing municipal services to a currently underserved area. The City of Brighton has invested almost $7 million in infrastructure for the South Brighton Growth Area in the past year, but acquiring adequate funding for water and wastewater infrastructure has proven difficult. This authorization will spur economic recovery in the area through job creation and economic support to local businesses.
• Project Name: Chatfield Reservoir – Colorado Reallocation Study 1
  Location Sponsor: Colorado Water Conservation Board
  Location: Denver, CO
  Corps District: Omaha
  Amount Requested: N/A
  The initial construction for the Chatfield Reservoir was authorized in 1950, and further modifications to the authorization were made in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986. It was amended once again in 2007 to include environmental restoration in the purposes of the project. This request seeks to include language in the bill that ensures the project can move forward toward completion without interruption due to changes in the rules governing studies by the Army Corps of Engineers.
• Project Name: Chatfield Reservoir – Colorado Reallocation Study 2
  Location Sponsor: Colorado Water Conservation Board
  Location: Denver, CO
  Corps District: Omaha
  Amount Requested: N/A
  The initial construction for the Chatfield Reservoir was authorized in 1950, and further modifications to the authorization were made in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986. It was amended once again in 2007 to include environmental restoration in the purposes of the project. This request seeks to amend language in the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-8) that would allow the Colorado Department of Natural Resources to assign a designee to perform modifications to the Chatfield Reservoir.
• Project Name: Colorado Environmental Infrastructure
  Location Sponsor: Colorado Water Resources & Power Development Authority
  Location: Colorado – Statewide
  Corps District: Albuquerque, Omaha, Sacramento, Kansas City
  Amount Requested: Authorize $50,000,000
  Section 595 authority included in the 1999 Water Resources Development Act authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide design and construction assistance for publicly-owned, water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects in the State. Expanding this authority to include the State of Colorado would assist local governments with high-cost, non-federal projects, such as drinking water and wastewater treatment, in many cases the improvements are necessary for compliance with federal standards. The assistance provided under this authority requires the local government sponsor to provide 25 percent of the cost. Ongoing operation and maintenance costs are borne entirely by the local government.
• Project Name: Denver South Platte River Improvements – River North and River South
  Location Sponsor: City and County of Denver
  Location: Denver, CO
  Corps District: Omaha
  Amount Requested: Authorize $30,000,000
  The City of Denver has completed the River North Greenway and the River South Greenway Master plans that identify improvements to Denver's South Platte River Corridor from its northern boundary with Adams County to its southern boundary with Arapahoe County and the City of Englewood. The focus of this planning study included water quality, recreation, park and open space opportunities, water conservation, increasing habitat, channel stability and water deliverability. As interested parties work to move forward with implementation of these plans, it will be critical to ensure adequate water infrastructure. This authorization would enable the Army Corps to provide river bank stabilization, consolidated regional drainage improvements and water quality improvements. The funding will leverage substantial existing and future non-profit, private and local investment in implementing the Master Plan.
• Project Name: Reimbursement for 2004-2005 emergency repairs to the Alamosa Levee system
  Location Sponsor: City of Alamosa, CO
  Location: Alamosa, CO
  Corps District: Albuquerque
  Amount Requested: Authorize $239,300
  The Alamosa Levee project was constructed by the Corps of Engineers in 1998. Prior to fiscal completion of the project, failure of portions of the levee toe occurred following a flood event. The Corps informed the City that if they designed and constructed the repairs to the levee, their costs would be included as project costs as work-in-kind for final project fiscal closeout. However, the project authorization does not allow the sponsor to receive credit for work-in-kind during construction.
• Project Name: Rio Grande Environmental Management Program
  Location Sponsor: N/A
  Location: Rio Grande Watershed in CO, NM, TX
  Corps District: Albuquerque
  Amount Requested: Authorize $15,000,000 per year until 2015
  This program for ecosystem restoration covers the Rio Grande and all tributaries from its headwaters in Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico. The program includes two basic parts—
  (1) a program for planning, construction and evaluation of measures for fish and wildlife habitat rehabilitation and enhancement (ecosystem restoration projects)
  -Potential projects include implementation of measures recommended by Rio Grande Salinity study, ecosystem restoration in upper Rio Grande basin and San Luis Valley in Colorado, southern New Mexico, and Forgotten River and Big Bend reaches in Texas
  (2) a long-term monitoring, computerized data inventory and analysis, applied research, and adaptive management program (LTRMP).
  -LTRMP efforts will be led by USGS
  -Work includes expansion of database currently under development by USGS to share data on all ongoing federal/nonfederal efforts in Rio Grande Basin
  -Potential studies include salinity analyses on Pecos River in New Mexico and Texas
  
• Project Name: Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Diffuser
  Location Sponsor: City of Delta, CO
  Location: Delta, CO
  Corps District: Sacramento
  Amount Requested: Authorize $1,050,000
  The City of Delta is requesting $1,050,000 for constructing and designing an effluent diffuser in the Gunnison River, which would assist the community in meeting new water quality standards. This project is a collaboration of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Colorado Department of Public Health.
• Project Name: West 38th Avenue Underpass Drainage Improvements
  Location Sponsor: City and County of Denver, Public Works Department
  Location: Denver
  Corps District: Omaha
  Amount Requested: Authorize $6,000,000
  This project will provide drainage improvements upstream of the South Platte River to protect an existing underpass, which serves as a major access to northwest Denver, and to a future rail transit station. The project is needed to complete a conceptual design and implementation of the first phase of an integrated storm sewer system to protect the underpass from flooding.

Requests Not Submitted

Please note there are a limited number of requests I can effectively make every year. There will be worthy projects that do not make the list, but are eligible to submit a funding request the following year.

• Entity: Animal Disease Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, USDA
  Project Name: Infectious Diseases at the Domestic-Wildlife Interface
  Location: University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, and Washington State University in Pullman, Washington
  Amount Requested: $900,000
  Amount received in FY 2010: $0
  This request will provide for the acquisition of bighorn sheep genetic and disease transmission details.  This information is necessary for vaccine development, which is critical for responsible grazing on public lands. The work will be coordinated by the Animal Disease Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service – USDA located at the University of Idaho and Washington State University, with project directions and guided by an interagency panel of scientists, managers, livestock professionals and tribal interests.
  
  Across the western United States there are concerns about disease transmission between bighorn sheep and domestic sheep. Although a number of experiments have been conducted in confined setting, little is known about what happens under actual open range conditions.  It is extremely important to protect the viability of the domestic sheep industry as well as ensure the viability of bighorn sheep populations. Research dollars, therefore, are needed to find the answers to questions of disease transmission. With the 4th largest inventory of all sheep and lambs, Colorado is one of the top lamb feeding states in the nation, and is ranked 4th in wool production.
  
• Entity: Irrigation Research Foundation
  Project Name: Best Practices Outreach
  Location: Yuma, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  Amount received in FY 2010: $0
  The Irrigation Research Foundation is a non-profit, private research center, where innovative methodologies and technologies are analyzed and demonstrated to the farming community. The Irrigation Research Foundation presents how the latest techniques can be adopted to improve profitability and productivity of crop yields.
  
  The goal of the Irrigation Research Foundation’s project is to implement the first irrigation research project aimed at studying farming techniques, water and fertilizer usage, and efficiency.  Studies at Clemson University, University of Florida, and others have paved the way for this development to take place by studying instances of water deprivation and overuse in an effort to save water. The IRF plans to use the knowledge it gains to encourage farmers and the next generation of western land managers to adopt proven methods that will lead to sustainable irrigation practices, economic development as well as natural resource conservation.
  
  Specifically, these funds will be used to purchase, install, and run a large test plot of water-saving techniques.
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: High Activity Location Observation (HALO)
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  Funding will help the Denver Police Department expand its partnerships with business corridors and neighborhoods to install surveillance cameras in crime spots.  Camera locations are jointly decided by community representatives, city council members, business representatives, and the Denver Police Department. 
  
  This project is aimed at protecting assets that are critical to Denver, including light rail infrastructure and the South Platte River waterway; improving emergency response; and deterring crime. 
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to monitor additional sites and upgrade the infrastructure of the HALO Command and Control Center.   
  
• Entity:  World Impact's Deer Creek
  Project Name:  Deer Creek Gang Prevention Program Expansion
  Location:  Bailey, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  World Impact’s Deer Creek is a non-profit, faith-based organization that operates a summer camp program for at-risk youth.  Funds would be used to expand its urban youth programs, which focus on gang-prevention, outdoor experiences, mentoring, life and job skills, education, and counseling.  Deer Creek’s gang prevention programs provide youth with the opportunity to develop into productive, self-sufficient adults.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to cover programming costs and equipment.  
  
• Entity: Violence Prevention Coalition of Southwest Colorado
  Project Name: Creating Healthy Communities Project
  Location: Durango, CO
  Amount Requested: $320,000
  The Creating Health Communities Project is a multi-level approach to prevention and services that address domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in southwest Colorado. 
  
  This project will provide essential support to increase the capacity of five partner agencies which address violence prevention.  Support will be specifically aimed at members of the most marginalized communities, including immigrants, GLBT youth, Native Americans, and those who live in the most remote areas of the community. 
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to sustain and hire sixteen people to work with these communities.
  
• Entity: Commerce City
  Project Name: Law Enforcement Technology Enhancements
  Location: Commerce City, CO
  Amount Requested: $309,000
  The requested funding would be utilized by the Commerce City Police Department to enhance the department's ability to prevent and control crime. The goal of these enhancement is to significantly modernize investigation capabilities and enhance the systems used to store evidence. 
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to procure modern audio/visual equipment, evidence management software, a reflected ultra violet imaging system, a forensic video analysis system, a laser distance measuring system, and a cell phone extraction utility device.
  
• Entity: Weld County Sheriff’s Office
  Project Name: Northern Colorado Regional Crime Lab
  Location: Weld County, Colorado
  Amount Requested: $700,000
  With a population of nearly one million, Northern Colorado is the largest population base without a full service crime lab.
  
  Currently, there is a tremendous back log of forensic evidence yet to be analyzed at the Colorado Bureau of Investigations (CBI) Crime Lab in Denver.  Building a full service lab in Northern Colorado will benefit the entire state by helping to alleviate the backlog of evidence at CBI.  It will give law enforcement officials the ability to process and analyze DNA evidence left at property crime scenes, and will allow the agencies involved to pool their resources in other forensic disciplines to better serve all jurisdictions throughout the area.
  
  The lab would allow for DNA analysis, drug analysis, fingerprint analysis, analysis of digital evidence, and firearms trace evidence analysis.
• Item Name: Advanced Clinical Trials for Personalized Heart Failure Treatment
  Request: $0
  Suggested Recipient: Department of Veterans Affairs
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Denver, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: This is not a request for additional funding. It provides suggested language for the budget report. The Department of Veterans Affairs, through its Cooperative Studies Program, is prepared to sponsor an advanced clinical trial with a personalized heart failure treatment called bucindolol. It would address the growing condition in the U.S. Veteran population. The study will be administered and run by the VA to VA medical centers, and funds will not be directly awarded to Arca Biopharma, the manufacturer of bucindolol.
  
  A more personalized heart failure treatment can improve treatment efficacy and in turn reduce deaths and hospitalizations associated with the condition. The VA Cooperative Study Program will cover costs up to $3-5 million a year for the next four-five years. Report language is requested for the FY2011 Military-Construction VA Bill to draw attention to the importance of personalized heart failure treatments in improving VA cardiovascular health outcomes.
  
  The project would support the Denver VA Medical Center, which is playing a central role in the study. Advanced studies of the product would also support the growth of biotechnology jobs in Colorado, as additional staff will be needed to work on the clinical trial and oversee manufacturing and regulatory compliance.
• Item Name: Air Cargo Security Testing Lab
  Request: $3,600,000
  Suggested Recipient: KeepTrackUSA
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Denver, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: Funding would be used to establish an Air Cargo Security Testing Lab at or near Denver International Airport. The lab would be used to establish standards for end-to-end physical security, biometric access control, document authentication, data collection and management.
  
  This project proposes to establish a testing lab that will expedite the Department of Homeland Security's effort to set and publish standards for (sea, air and land) cargo security devices; and to then test and certify the multitude of devices and systems (protocols) from numerous vendors. Once certified, shippers and consignees can act quickly to install such security devices that will result in significantly higher protection of our borders and allow secure end-to-end control of the entire supply chain. With the secure devices tracking movements, shipment schedules and human interactions with the cargo itself, a “chain of trust” can be realized and as a consequence Customs Agencies worldwide may then be able to establish “green lanes” for cargo shipments at all ports, thereby facilitating further growth in world trade while mitigating cargo theft, contraband, kidnapping, human trafficking and terrorist bomb threats.
  
• Item Name: Decision and Energy Reduction Tool
  Request: $4,500,000
  Suggested Recipient: Colorado State University
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Fort Collins, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: This funding will enable CSU to work with an industry partner, Ricardo (a company specializing in military vehicles and equipment), to develop modeling and simulation tools to gather information that will help increase fuel efficiency within the military vehicle fleet of the U.S. Marine Corps. This funding will support research and engineering efforts to design, build and deploy these toolsets for USMC decision makers.
  
  Fuel delivery to the battlefield or forward bases is a tremendous force protection, logistical and financial cost challenge. Reduction in fuel consumption is needed to prevent unnecessary exposure of personnel across the battlefield. Vehicle systems must operate longer and farther on less energy, and provide the same or better performance with improved armor, new weapons, electronics, and communications systems-all of which can demand more energy.
  
• Item Name: Enhancing Soldier Effectiveness at High Altitude
  Request: $2,500,000
  Suggested Recipient: Altitude Research Center, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Denver, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: At high altitude, such as in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the impacts of hypoxia (low oxygen) on the physical and mental health of soldiers can be severely debilitating, resulting in a significant loss of effective function. Full and rapid adjustment to high altitude greatly reduces high altitude illness and improves soldier performance. Some people at high altitude naturally perform well and appear to be protected from hypoxia; some perform as if they were at sea level despite greatly reduced oxygen. This funding will be used to conduct a two-year research project on the basic biological machinery (DNA, RNA, proteins) that controls full adjustment to high altitude in these exceptional altitude performers. This information will hopefully lead to new approaches to enhancing the effectiveness of soldiers deployed to high altitude locations.
  
  In addition, the outcomes will directly affect the 50+ million annual visitors to the mountains of the western US, the 9 million residents of high altitude in the U.S., and 390 million worldwide. Finally, this research will have an impact on the over 40 million U.S. citizens with heart and lung disease who live at high altitudes.
  
• Item Name: eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship
  Request: $3,500,000
  Suggested Recipient: eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Louisville, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship is a non-profit organization that brings together industry, academia, and government and aims to catalyze the creation of entrepreneurial space companies, the commercialization of their technologies, and the development of technician and engineer workforce to fuel their growth.
  
  The eSpace mission is accomplished through three programs: one focusing on workforce development at high schools and higher education institutions, one focusing on design and commercialization of aerospace technology, and one focusing on launching new aerospace companies.
  
  eSpace has a partnership with the University of Colorado and the strong support of Lieutenant Governor Barbara O’Brien.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used for equipment, development of materials, personnel, operations, and grant funding.
  
• Item Name: eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship
  Request: $3,500,000
  Suggested Recipient: eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Louisville, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship is a non-profit organization that brings together industry, academia, and government and aims to catalyze the creation of entrepreneurial space companies, the commercialization of their technologies, and the development of technician and engineer workforce to fuel their growth.
  
  The eSpace mission is accomplished through three programs: one focusing on workforce development at high schools and higher education institutions, one focusing on design and commercialization of aerospace technology, and one focusing on launching new aerospace companies.
  
  eSpace has a partnership with the University of Colorado and the strong support of Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used for equipment, development of materials, personnel, operations, and grant funding.
  
• Item Name: Fine Water Mist Fire Suppression Technology
  Request: $3,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: Colorado School of Mines
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Golden, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: Funding will be used by the Colorado School of Mines, along with their partners, ADA Technologies, Inc. and Applied Research Associates, to work with the fire research team at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Tyndall Air Force Base (FL) to adapt their Fine Water Mist fire suppression technology to a series of applications in military installations where halon must be replaced.
  
  The School of Mines and its partners have spent the greater part of twelve years developing ways to use fine water mist as an effective tool for fire suppression. The team will build upon funding secured in the FY2010 Department of Defense Appropriations bill to build a prototype for testing and improvement.
  
• Item Name: Host Based Security System (HBSS) for the U.S. Air Force
  Request: $10,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: McAfee
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Englewood, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: Funding for this project will allow McAfee to develop, fine tune, and sustain the concept of computer host defense operations to utilize the security tools already procured and deployed under the HBSS program by the Air Force.
  
  The HBSS solution is an enterprise-wide automated and standardized tool that enhances end-point system security against internal threats and those external threats capable of penetrating network defenses. In Colorado, McAfee's team will supply new and innovative cloud computing and global threat intelligence computing capabilities to help evolve the capability of the solution.
  
  The project is expected to add 20 additional jobs in Colorado, as well as five high level computer scientists in the Air Force to help support the project.
  
• Item Name: Increased Sustainability for Legacy Weapons Systems and Future Combat Systems
  Request: $3,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: Vforge
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Lakewood, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: This project will advance and leverage the successes of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in order to increase sustainability for legacy weapons systems and future combat systems. Funds will be used for rotor casting and semi-solid metal manufacturing (SSM).
  
  The project will develop rotor casting capability for up to 200 H.P. rotors. It will cast, assemble, and install up to 200 rotors in Department of Defense fluid-handling systems as demonstration for energy savings. The project will also demonstrate and optimize SSM copper alloy recycling capability to ensure long-term cost effective solutions. It will provide prototype fluid-handling and electrical/electronic copper alloy components for a number of Department of Defense applications (e.g. parts for refrigerated transport systems carrying perishable goods to Iraq/Afghanistan). This project will enhance the benefits applicable to stressed legacy weapons systems, as well as in-theatre ground systems and facilities.
  
• Item Name: Infrared Spherical Detection Systems Technology
  Request: $2,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: University of Denver
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Denver, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: The DU2SL of the University of Denver intends to team with Lucid Dimensions, Inc. of Louisville, CO in order to develop, test and evaluate life-saving infrared spherical detection systems technology for weapons fire detection on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and rotor-wing platforms. The scope of the program will include efforts from both qualified faculty and graduate students of DU combined with the staff and engineers from Lucid Dimensions. DU will specifically provide ballistics facilities, UAS expertise, research platforms, and integration. Lucid will develop and provide its proprietary spherical infrared weapons fire detection components and capabilities with supporting systems engineering efforts.
  
  The funds will be used to develop UAS system using new sensor technologies to enhance protection. Specifically the funds will be dedicated toward developing a lightweight low power FPGA electronics subsystem and integrating it onto a airborne platform. The funds will also be used to conduct life fire data collection tests at the DU test facility.
  
  The partnership between DU2SL and Lucid Dimensions, Inc. will enhance the State of Colorado's technological offerings, educational and employment opportunities, and state-wide manufacturing. The success of this program is intended to launch the Spherical Infrared Weapons Fire Detector into high volume production for rotor wing applications, as well as for various air, land and sea platforms. Lucid Dimensions, Inc. has a manufacturing plan that will include local sub-component manufacturers. With this approach they intend to increase employment and high-tech manufacturing state-wide. DU2SL will also build its reputation as a leader in advanced unmanned systems R&D, drawing a larger student body seeking such an education.
  
• Item Name: Metals Affordability Initiative
  Request: $10,000,000
  Suggested Recipient: Metals Affordability Initiative Companies
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Nationwide
  Purpose/Project Description: The Metal Affordability Initiative (MAI) consortium, established in 1999, is helping to transform the US specialty aerospace metals industry by increasing the competitiveness of this critical industrial sector.
  
  MAI includes 19 companies, along with a government agency partner - the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). MAI enables metal process technology development from proof of concept through insertion into military systems. Member companies pool resources to develop advanced structural metals technology that can be inserted into military systems. In addition to the consortium members, MAI projects have involved participants from over 60 additional industrial companies, including over 45 small businesses, 18 universities, and 3 National Laboratories located in 35 states.
  
• Item Name: PTSD Nurse Training Program
  Request: $850,000
  Suggested Recipient: Colorado State University-Pueblo
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Pueblo, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: The program will expand on a partnership between Colorado State University-Pueblo and Evans Army Hospital at Fort Carson. Funding will allow CSU-Pueblo to train undergraduate and graduate level nursing students to meet the needs of soldiers returning home with PTSD.
  
  Through the program, CSU will develop new curricula and offer students enhanced clinical and training experience. The program will increase the number of highly trained nursing professional prepared to provide mental health services to former military members and others in need.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used to develop curricula, maintain and upgrade software, develop online coursework, launch a recruitment program for minority students, share faculty and resources between CSU-Pueblo and the main CSU campus in Fort Collins, CO, and purchase equipment.
  
• Item Name: SupportNet for Frontline Providers for Traumatic Stress
  Request: $1,300,000
  Suggested Recipient: University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Colorado Springs, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: SupportNet is managed through the Trauma, Health & Hazards Center (THHC), which is within the National Institute for Science, Space and Security Centers at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. SupportNet provides an anonymous support system for mental health providers who suffer from secondary trauma. Secondary trauma occurs when mental health providers are exposed to extensive trauma through the soldiers and veterans they treat. The SupportNet model includes individual and group counseling, an anonymous self-help website available 24 hours a day, and the gathering of critical scientific information relevant to trauma treatments.
  
  The program received initial funding in FY 2010 to implement the program. FY 2011 funding will enable SupportNet to complete program development, provide critical support for Army service personnel treating soldiers with mental health problems at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, and develop fund a strategic dissemination/replication plan that can be made available to other major military installations.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used to hire personnel and graduate assistants, supplies, and costs associated with dissemination of the SupportNet model.
  
• Item Name: Ultracold Matter Inertial Sensor Systems
  Request: $2,500,000
  Suggested Recipient: University of Colorado-Boulder
  Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): Boulder, CO
  Purpose/Project Description: Ultracold atoms are atoms maintained at temperatures close to absolute zero. They can be successfully used for navigation, mapping, and geolocation. Research in this area has led to Nobel Prize recognition of scientists at the University of Colorado.
  
  This project will expand upon the Ultracold Matter Systems Engineering Initiative (UMS), which supports partnerships with and transfers of technology to small businesses. Funding will allow the University of Colorado-Boulder, through the UMS initiative, to build upon its research in ultracold matter science and technology to address military needs.
  
  One of the primary objectives for UMS is to develop a demonstration ultracold matter system prototype for in-the-field performance tests to address the U.S. Army's needs for navigation, mapping, and geolocation capabilities. Additionally, UMS will address more broadly the Department of Defense's needs in other arenas. UMS' final objective is to establish ultracold matter as an engineering and applied science discipline and to provide the first workforce specifically trained in the emerging new technology.
  
• Entity: Solix Biofuels
  Project Name: Algae-Derived Biocrude Production System
  Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,500,000
  Solix Biofuels is focused on the design and construction of a massively-scalable production system that will produce competitively priced algae-derived biocrude on an industrial scale. If algae is to be successful as a fuel source, significant research is still required to bring algal-derived bio-fuels to a price point that is competitive with foreign supplied fossil-based fuels.
  
  Specifically, this funding would address several of the key areas that are essential to making algal bio-fuels a commercially feasible by reducing: 1) the initial capital cost required to build a production facility, 2) the cost of operations by minimizing the energy required to concentrate the algae and extract the oil, 3) operational costs by making the process robust, lowering maintenance requirements and by reclamation of water.
  
• Entity: Zolo Technologies
  Project Name: Coal Combustion Sensor
  Location: Boulder, CO
  Amount Requested: $45,000,000 above the President's Request for the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development Account, Innovations for Existing Plants
  
  Zolo Technologies has developed a unique laser-based sensor that, for the first time, directly measures the combustion process in a coal-fired power plant. Fuel-injectors, which rely on sensors for oxygen and timing to control car engines, have dramatically increased engine performance when compared to carburetors. In simple terms, coal-fired power plants can significantly improve the performance of their boilers with combustion sensors. In addition to improving efficiency and reducing GHG emissions, the ability to measure the combustion process also enables the drastic reduction of other pollutants.
  
  Specifically, Zolo is requesting programmatic funding that will be allocated at the discretion of the Department of Energy, not funding for a specific project. Zolo requests the following report language be included in the Fiscal Year 2011 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill: The Committee provides an additional $45,000,000 for the Innovations for Existing Plants (IEP) program for generation efficiency technologies. While the Committee commends IEP for its ongoing efforts to further develop carbon sequestration and carbon emissions control technologies, the Committee is concerned that generation efficiency technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired plants are not adequately being considered. The IEP program is directed to expend the additional funds on accelerated deployment of advanced, innovative, cost-effective technologies that can measurably increase the generation efficiency of coal-fired plants, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
  
• Entity: Bye Energy
  Project Name: The Green Flight Project
  Location: Greenwood Village, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,100,000
  Bye Energy is a Colorado company specializes in developing high-value, clean energy solutions to serve general and business aviation. The company's mission is to rapidly commercialize the most promising clean energy technologies for these markets.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to design and integrate an Electric Propulsion System (EPS) in Phase I, and an Electric-Hybrid Propulsion System (EHPS) in Phase II, into a full-scale proof of concept General Aviation aircraft at facilities located at Centennial Airport in Englewood, CO.
  
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: Composting
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $5,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  The City of Denver is seeking funds to purchase equipment so that it may launch a community-wide compost collection program.  The city has been conducting a very successful pilot program for the past year as a result of a waste composition study which found that 57% of Denver’s municipal waste stream is compostable organic materials.
  
  The opportunity to expand the city’s compost collection program to the full service area of 170,000 households will play a significant role in helping the city achieve its greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for salary and benefits for drivers and administrative staff.   
  
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: Weatherization
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  This funding would allow the City of Denver to continue and expand residential insulation subsidies to help residents lower their energy bills, conserve resources, and stay warm in the winter.  This funding request is an expansion of an energy efficiency project that Denver got funding for in FY 2010.
  
  Expansion of the program would allow the City of Denver to fund rebates at levels beyond those offered by the local utility.  Additionally, the program would give assistance to individuals above 200% of the federal poverty level.  This would make assistance available to about 15,000 households.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for door-to-door outreach, rebate processing, and program administration.  
  
• Entity: Colorado State University
  Project Name: Sustainable Biofuels Development Center
  Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $800,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $500,000
  The mission of the Sustainable Biofuels Development Center is to enhance the capability of America's biofuels industry to produce transportation fuels and chemical feedstocks on a large scale, with significant energy yields.  The goal is to produce these fuels at competitive cost, through sustainable production techniques.
  
  The SBDC builds on a history of entrepreneurship-based research at CSU and will have a direct impact on the local, state and national economy. Nationally, the SBDC will help to insulate the US economy from fuel shortages by increasing our ability to produce and utilize a variety of domestically-produced biofuels. At the state level, the SBDC will serve as a resource for the state's farmers and fuel processors to enhance their competitiveness. Locally, the SBDC will create jobs as a result of the commercialization of new production processes that will serve a global market for sustainable biofuels and biological energy production systems. Ultimately, the advances made at the SBDC will help brand Colorado as a focal point of clean biofuel entrepreneurship, resulting in economic and environmental benefits.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used to expand the Center and acquire equipment that will facilitate the chemical and biological analysis of plants, microorganisms, and biofuels.
  
• Entity: City of Montrose
  Project Name: Montrose Renewable Energy Development
  Location: Montrose, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  The City of Montrose is engaged in projects that lower energy costs while reducing energy use and emissions. In 2007 the City completed the rehabilitation of the Elks Civic Building that houses the City Council chambers and Community Development departments. Incorporated into this historic building is a highly efficient geothermal heating and cooling system. This system has reduced the building’s energy operating costs to approximately $1 per square foot per year.
  
  Specifically, this funding would support the installation of a geothermal heating and cooling system and a photovoltaic array in the Montrose City Hall and Annex Buildings, and a photovoltaic system at the Montrose Wastewater Treatment Plant.
  
• Entity: Colorado School of Mines
  Project Name: Natural Gas and Watershed Study
  Location: Golden, CO
  Amount Requested: $600,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  Conflicts between energy and water interests have the potential to stifle energy production, which in turn adversely affects national energy policy and economic well-being. This funding will help the Colorado School of Mines study the joint sustainability of water resources and energy production. The study will determine where water co-produced from energy extraction could augment fresh water supplies and enhance both water and energy sustainability, with a particular emphasis on basins that contain coal bed methane.
  
  Specifically, funding will be directed toward modeling techniques to better classify tributary or surface water bodies, techniques to minimize co-production of tributary water, reclamation techniques and feasibility of treatment technologies.
  
• Entity: NatureServe
  Project Name: Conservation Works
  Location: Boulder, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $2,000,000
  For more than thirty years NatureServe has managed and maintained the most comprehensive, high-quality data on the location and status of at-risk species and natural ecosystems in the United States.  This resource represents decades of field inventory, data collection, and analysis of species and ecosystems using rigorous scientific methods and quality control. The federal government is at present the single largest user of the information generated and managed by NatureServe and its network partners.
  
  Specifically, this funding will support the Conservation Works program, a multi-year initiative that will update the status of thousands of species; improve the systems used to manage this critical national data set; deliver technical assistance to the States; and identify those species and ecosystems at greatest risk due to climate change.  This initiative helps Colorado to maintain healthy lands and waters that sustain both people and wildlife.
  
• Entity: Adams State Community College
  Project Name: The Adams State Project
  Location: Alamosa, CO
  Amount Requested: $750,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  The Adams State Project is a 2.56 megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system to be located on and around the buildings at Adams State Community College in Alamosa, Colorado. The project has been designed and SunEdison expects to mobilize construction crews in the spring of 2011. The project will directly support the full time employment of 45 people in the domestic solar industry and will create an estimated 64 local jobs in the San Luis Valley during the project’s installation, while also driving indirect investment in the local community. The project will produce an estimated 5.3 megawatt hours of clean energy annually – the equivalent of removing 792 cars from the road.
  
  Specifically, this funding will be directed toward installing roof-mounted solar systems on 4 campus buildings – Plachy Hall, the Student Union, the Library and Education buildings – for a total of 351 kilowatts of electricity generation. Additionally, this funding will be used for installing two large ground-mounted solar systems that will add an additional 2,215 kilowatts.
  
• Entity: The City of Montrose
  Project Name: Photovoltaic Arrays on City Hall Buildings
  Location: Montrose, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  Observing the success of the geothermal heating and cooling system in the Elks Civic Building in Montrose, Colorado, the City of Montrose will now upgrade the inefficient heating and cooling systems in select official buildings.
  
  Specifically, this funding will be used for installing photovoltaic arrays atop City Hall, the City Hall Annex and the wastewater management facility’s office building. The energy produced will service systems, computers and the buildings themselves. Additionally, the City will convert heating and cooling systems at City Hall and the adjacent Annex Building to geothermal systems, thereby reducing energy costs in the first year by 45%.
  
• Entity: The City of Pagosa Springs
  Project Name: Geothermal Greenhouse Partnership (GGP)
  Location: Pagosa Springs, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,097,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  The Geothermal Greenhouse Partnership (GGP) is a project that will not only provide affordable, organic, locally grown food for people and businesses, but also serve as a center for K-12 Science Education, year-round community gardens and, most importantly, a branding tool for attracting new types of businesses and people inspired by the communitywide transition to a clean energy economy and a local foods movement. This is possible with our abundant resources in people, geothermal water and sunlight. The GGP, which has an ideal location on US Hwy 160, a major transport artery in the Southwest, will serve as a model for other rural communities in Colorado and elsewhere, for how local leadership and resources can be summoned, nurtured, harnessed, and focused on specific projects that solve multiple specific problems.
  
  Specifically, this funding will support a land purchase for the GGP as well as a contract for geothermal tap use.
  
• Entity: Colorado State University
  Project Name: Engines and Energy Conversion Lab (EECL)
  Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $0
  Within Colorado State’s Clean Energy Supercluster, Cenergy supports clean and renewable energy research by bringing scientific and business entities together in order to send innovative new technologies into the marketplace.
  
  Specifically, this appropriation would provide capital construction dollars to leverage local public and private support for the expansion of the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab (EECL). Cenergy expects to incubate 2-4 businesses per year that need to be housed in an expanded EECL facility for close proximity to their research. With the expanded space, it is compelling to offer space for venture capital (VC), patent attorneys and other service providers to provide the support necessary, mentorship and advising necessary to ensure the success of these businesses.

• Entity: Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority (FRA)
  Project Name: Colorado Drug, Device, and Diagnostic Development Institute
  Location:Aurora, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  Funds would be used to create a non-profit Colorado Drug, Device, and Diagnostic Development Institute. The institute will take fifteen new bioscience technologies from CU, CSU, and other Colorado institutions and manage them through the early stages of development. These technologies can then be commercialized into new therapeutics, devices, and diagnostics. The goal of this project is to transform Aurora into a thriving and competitive bioscience cluster. This project has strong local and state support.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to supplement technology development costs.
  
• Entity: Colorado State University - Pueblo
  Project Name: DNA Testing and Registry Facility
  Location: Pueblo, CO
  Amount Requested: $600,000
  CSU-Pueblo seeks funding to develop a new DNA testing and registry facility for bull breeding that will serve as a model demonstration project to help support an important regional industry and improve regional capacity to analyze applied genetic research. In addition to the use of a specific new technology for maintaining a bull registry, applied research would be conducted to analyze gene traits.
  
  As a result of the funding, CSU-Pueblo would develop the capability to do high-volume DNA research and applied analysis - a cost effective determination of bull paternity. Research could also lead to breakthroughs in the study of bull traits, particularly for those who study bucking bulls. These studies could be applied to other organisms. The paternity tracing ability could also be useful in food safety applications for tracing tainted products. This project will affect the local economy and help bolster the science infrastructure of southeastern Colorado.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for scientific instrumentation, one-year salary for two technicians, renovations of facilities, and hardware and software.
  
• Entity: City of Montrose
  Project Name: City Hall Renovation
  Location: Montrose, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  Montrose City Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places (5MN.1811). The City has completed Phase I of the rehabilitation of City Hall with the assistance of a Save America's Treasures grant in the amount of $98,500.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for Phase II of the rehabilitation project, which includes restoration of the historic exterior masonry repairs, historic windows rehabilitation, structural remediation, insulation, and roofing.
  
• Entity: Grand County Board of County Commissioners
  Project Name: East Shore Trail
  Location: Grand County, CO
  Amount Requested: $180,000
  Funding will help the National Park Service and the Forest Service complete an Environmental Analysis along the East Shore Trail alignment within Rocky Mountain National Park and the Arapaho National Recreation Area in Grand County, Colorado.
  
  The East Shore Trail Area was established by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Section 1954) for the purpose of maximizing the opportunity for sustained use of the trail.
  
  Grand County is committed to its networked trail system and is working with all public and private partners on the East Shore Trail project including, but not limited to: National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Headwaters Trail Alliance (HTA) and all funding partners (Town of Fraser, Town of Granby, Town of Grand Lake, Town of Winter Park, Fraser Valley Metropolitan Recreation District) as well as the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). The East Shore Trail provides a crucial link between the Town of Granby and the Town of Grand Lake for visitors and residents of Grand County.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to complete an Environmental Analysis required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Analysis will include field reconnaissance, preparation of an Environmental Assessment and public involvement.
  
• Entity: The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District and Colorado Springs Utilities
  Project Name: Fountain Creek Corridor
  Location: Rocky Ford, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  On January 23, 2008, Colorado Springs Utilities and the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District established an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) to develop a Master Plan for the Fountain Creek Corridor between Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
  
  The health of Fountain Creek has been damaged in recent years due to urbanization, irrigation diversions, railroad encroachment, and loss of riparian vegetation. Key goals for the Fountain Creek project include improving watershed health by reducing erosion, sedimentation and flooding; improving water quality; creating stable riparian and wetland ecosystems that attract and support native wildlife and vegetation; sustaining productive agricultural lands along the corridor; laying out trails from Colorado Springs to Pueblo with recreational and educational opportunities; gaining public and private support through partnerships to facilitate implementation and future funding; and creating potential demonstration projects along the corridor.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for two demonstration projects aimed at accomplishing portions of all five of these goals. One project would be located in El Paso County and one in Pueblo County in order to maximize the impact and visibility throughout the watershed. In Pueblo County, the plans include the construction of Fountain Creek Environmental Stewardship Center. In El Paso County, plans include the Fountain Creek Eco-Fit Education Park.
  
• Entity: Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
  Project Name: Green Reservoirs
  Location: Greeley, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  The Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (CCWCD) manages ground water resources for western agricultural irrigators, and responds to the hardships they face with an innovative water-infrastructure development program.
  
  Through the Green Reservoirs project, CCWCD will construct: (1) a network of “green” reservoirs that utilize natural hydrological flows to maximize the utility of the Colorado's South Platte River, and (2) construct a internet based network of water measuring structures, allowing both the farmer and water manager to monitor water quality and conservation with unparalleled accuracy.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for project preparation and administration, installation of telemetry devices, and installation of water quality devices.
  
• Entity: The Wilderness Society
  Project Name: Programmatic Funding- Legacy Roads and Trails
  Location: Nationwide
  Amount Requested: $150,000,000
  The Wilderness Society supports $150 million in additional funding for the Legacy Roads and Trails program and for Road Maintenance under the Forest Service.
  
  This funding is used to protect American rivers, streams, endangered fish, and community water systems by addressing the urgent environmental impacts caused by roads in deteriorated watersheds. They are used to repair needed roads, decommission unneeded roads and repair fish culverts, bridges and trails. In Colorado, the funding for FY 2008-2009 was allocated to restore or enhance 177 stream miles; decommission 111 miles of system roads and 495 miles of unauthorized roads; improve 55 miles of roads; reconstruct or construct 62 bridges; maintain 655 miles of trails; and improve 3,321 acres of watersheds.
  
  Specifically, increased funding would allow the Forest Service to meet statutory responsibilities and protect wildlife, fish, and water and effectively work down the backlog of repair and reclamation work in Colorado and across the nation.
  
• Entity: Chaffee County and the City of Salida
  Project Name: Natural Resource Center (NRC)
  Location: Salida, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,070,000
  The State of Colorado, Chaffee County, and the City of Salida are collaborating on a new natural resource center in Salida, CO. The public will utilize this area for common information about public lands, education, and area activities.
  
  Chaffee County is a gateway to public lands and rivers managed by the U.S. Forest Service, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Colorado State Parks, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. There are three Wilderness Areas in the area and more 14,000 foot tall mountain peaks than in other county in the nation. The Arkansas River in this area is the most commercially rafted river in the nation. The NRC will be located along the Collegiate Peaks Scenic Byway, a popular driving route for heritage and natural resource tourists.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for construction of a visitor reception area, interpretive exhibits, and conference rooms and training/classrooms.
  
• Entity: City of Brighton
  Project Name: South Brighton Water Line Extension
  Location: Brighton, CO
  Amount Requested: $950,000
  This project will provide critical water supply in a prime area of growth for the City of Brighton and the region. The South Brighton Growth Area is a premier location for significant economic development in the area of the Interchange of Colorado State Highway 85 and the E470 Tollway. With the extension of city utilities into that area, development within the South Brighton Growth Area will enhance the creation of jobs and new businesses in the northeast quadrant of the Metropolitan Denver area within close proximity to Denver Regional Airport. The City of Brighton has the 45% match required for Interior STAG grants.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used to extend a 24” diameter water line from the city's distribution system westerly along 136th Avenue from Chambers Road to Colorado Highway 85. The projected growth along this corridor includes residential, retail, commercial, and business office development.
  
• Entity: City of Montrose
  Project Name: Sunnyside Sewer Connection and Mesa Sewer Extension
  Location: Montrose, CO
  Amount Requested: $300,000
  This project will combine two wastewater facilities in Monte Vista and install a new lift station and over 15,000 feet of pipe. The project would consolidate wastewater treatment into one facility, saving the city over $100,000 per year in operations and maintenance costs.
  
  Local and state resources for water/wastewater infrastructure projects are dwindling, particularly in Colorado, where the state legislature recently cut $26 million in funding from a state revolving loan program. Stateside, Colorado has over $2 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to purchase and lay pipe, replace manholes, install a new lift station, cross railroads and canals, design and manage the project, pay contractors, and perform a Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
  
• Entity: City of Monte Vista
  Project Name: Water Infrastructure
  Location: Monte Vista, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  The City of Montrose contracted with an engineering firm to conduct a Sanitary Sewer Collection System Master Plan that was completed in January 2009. The final Master Plan included recommendations for capital improvement projects needed to alleviate problems with Montrose's existing sewer collection system.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to connect existing sewer lines and extend another, consistent with the recommendations of the Master Plan. The city has the 45% match required for Interior STAG grants.
  
• Entity: City of Thornton
  Project Name: Western Urban Rivers Water Quality Study
  Location: Thornton, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  This funding would enable the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a state or region-wide water quality study to evaluate the condition of streams and rivers in the arid west that are impacted by significant effluent discharges, and to investigate how the CWA/SDWA regulatory process shifts the allocation of costs for the use of such rivers from dischargers to users such as water suppliers.
  
  The current CWA/SDWA regulatory process is insufficient to address the problems associated with rivers and streams that are routinely comprised of significant amounts of wastewater effluent. This study would lead to the recommendations for modifying the regulatory process to ensure that rivers receive significant effluent contributions continue to be available for multiple uses, and that the regulatory process results in an appropriate allocation of treatment costs between polluter and user.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to conduct the study.
  
• Entity:  Jefferson County Public Schools
  Project Name:  Innovative Learning Initiative
  Location:  Jefferson County, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  Jefferson County Public School District's innovative Learning Initiative would build on the existing technology infrastructure that JeffCo has put in place.  The project's goals are to expand the number of teachers and students who use technology services from 50,000 to 86,000 and to helping all students become technologically literate by the end of the eighth grade.  Additionally, the program aims to integrate technology with both teacher training and curriculum development, establishing research-based instructional methods that can be widely implemented.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for technology, equipment, and programming. 
• Entity:  America SCORES Denver
  Project Name:  America SCORES Denver Program Expansion
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $150,000
  America SCORES is a non-profit organization that provides the nation's only after-school program using soccer, creative writing, and community service to improve academic performance, health, and well-being among public elementary school students. Last year, America SCORES Denver enrolled 256 students in eight elementary schools. On alternating afterschool days, trained teacher coaches provide three hours of sports and language arts training. Nationally the program serves more than 5,000 students in 14 major cities throughout the country.  Ninety-four percent of participants are ethnic or racial minorities, 80-90 percent of the participants qualify for free or reduced lunch, and all are at-risk urban public school students. Funding will help America SCORES Denver expand the program by one-half for the FY2011 fiscal year.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for program expenses, such as equipment, building rental costs, and compensation for teachers and coaches.
• Entity:  San Juan Basin Health Department
  Project Name:  San Juan Basin Health Department
  Location:  Durango, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,266,338
  The San Juan Basin Health Department needs an investment of $1,266,338 to upgrade, repair and remodel both its Durango and Pagosa Springs offices.  The office structures are both over 15 years old, and are in need of considerable renovation. Additionally, the department needs to purchase the essential hardware and software systems that will be required to connect and integrate with community partners.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for facilities and equipment.
• Entity:  Mercy Health Foundation on behalf of Mercy Regional Medical Center and Fort Lewis College
  Project Name:  Southwest Colorado Innovation, Simulation, and Education Center
  Location:  Durango, CO
  Amount Requested:  $8,605,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $693,000
  Mercy Regional Medical Center and Fort Lewis College are collaborating to build and equip a new Southwest Colorado Innovation, Simulation, and Education Center.  The center will focus on advancing education, health care and medicine, research, and job creation and placement in health care and related fields through a modern integrated approach to rural health care.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to build a facility and purchase equipment and furnishings.  
• Entity:  Project Angel Heart
  Project Name:  Project Angel Heart Facility
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $800,000
  Project Angel Heart is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that delivers nutritious meals to improve quality of life, at no cost, for those coping with life-threatening illness. The organization's commercial kitchen in Denver, run by professional chefs, prepares up to the equivalent of three meals per day, five days per week for each client, depending on need; as many as 60% of these meals are modified each day to meet individual dietary restrictions. The organization currently serves roughly 800 clients each week and has reached maximum capacity in its current home. Project Angel Heart cannot remain flexible enough to activate clients who desperately need immediate assistance without a larger facility.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to purchase and build-out of a new facility at 4950 Washington Street in Denver, which will allow Project Angel Heart to more than quadruple its current level of service over the next 15+ years.  Expanding our service to reach those who currently need meals and those who will need meals in the future will improve the quality of life for thousands of people in Denver and Colorado Springs.
• Entity:  City of Denver
  Project Name:  Summer Green Youth Jobs
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $310,000
  Funding will go to the Energy Workforce Program, which prepares 180 high school sophomores through seniors for careers in the energy industry. Through the program, students learn about post-secondary educational pathways that support energy careers, from on-the-job training, to apprenticeships, Associates degrees and 4-year college degrees.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for program activities.
  Entity:  City of Brighton
  Project Name:  Nurse and Allied Health Education Center
  Location:  Brighton, CO
  Amount Requested:  $697,530
  This project is a partnership between the City of Brighton, Adams County School District 27J, and Front Range Community College to meet the critical need for nursing training in the allied health field of Northern Colorado.  Funding would be used to renovate approximately 12,000 square feet in the former Community Hospital.  It will be transformed into a classroom and training space, resulting in an Allied Health education center to include nursing and pharmacy programs.  It will facilitate the development of healthcare career training opportunities and meet the high and rising demand for qualified and competent healthcare workers as well as increase the diversity of healthcare workers to better reflect that of their patients.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for renovation and construction purposes.
  Entity:  City of Denver
  Project Name:  Veterans Benefits/IT Upgrade
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $186,000
  Funds for this project will provide enhancements to Denver County's Veterans Service Office to better accommodate and provide support services to the veterans seeking assistance.  The economic recession along with the increasing number of veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are two major factors in the increase of requests of Veterans Benefits assistance. The number of requests is expected to double in 2010 over the previous year.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for upgrades in technology equipment.
• Entity:  Jewish Family Service of Colorado
  Project Name:  Support Services for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Seniors
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $300,000
  This project would demonstrate an innovative community-based health and supportive services delivery model to assist a growing number of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) older adults who are aging-in-place within the community in receiving needed services and supports to maintain their independence, dignity, and quality of life. The project would direct federal and community supports and technical assistance to better utilize and improve existing local services and programming, build a body of research and evaluation data, and develop and implement plans for public dissemination or program findings in order to share and teach the model to the broader Aging Network.  The project is consistent with the Administration on Aging's call upon communities across the country to prepare for changing older adult populations by modernizing systems of care; by providing consumers with more control over their lives; and by improving their overall quality of life to ensure that they remain at home as long as possible.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to: 1) Design and implement programming; 2) Build a body of sought after research and evaluative data relative to client and program impact, and carry out public dissemination of program findings; 3) Collaborate at the regional and national levels through our participation in Aging Network conferences and other forums where best practices are exchanged; and 4) Fostering strategic community partnerships and alliances with eldercare providers, planners, organizers, supporters, and other community partners.
• Entity:  Cherry Creek School District
  Project Name:  Wellness Model Program
  Location:  Greenwood Village, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,080,000
  Cherry Creek School District (CCSD) is collaborating with The Center for Human Nutrition (CHN) at the University of Colorado Denver, an interdisciplinary team encompassing basic and clinical research, post-graduate training and career development of nutrition professionals, and community outreach.  This project will create policies and programs both at the district level and at the level of individual schools to promote the health of the students, teachers and staff of CCSD.  The project also aims to connect school activities with the home and with the surrounding community to promote wellness and healthy lifestyle choices.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for programming, research, and outreach. 
• Entity:  University of Colorado Denver
  Project Name:  Collaborative Visualization Laboratory
  Location:  Aurora, CO
  Amount Requested:  $800,000
  The Collaborative Visualization Laboratory at the University of Colorado Denver would be a unique, state-of-the-art facility for creation, testing and display of visual educational materials in a variety of STEM, Medicine, and Humanities related subject areas. This facility will encourage collaborative efforts for education and research across disciplines to explore visual education opportunities that utilize advanced, up-to-date visualization technology.
  
  A main area of focus for the VisLab will be development and deployment of visualization technology outreach programs that target high school students including under-served minority groups in the Denver metro area.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for equipment, student stipends and scholarships, outreach, and overhead and infrastructure. 
• Entity:  Escuela de Guadalupe
  Project Name:  After School and Summer Enrichment Programs
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $400,000
  Escuela de Guadalupe is a dual-language school of excellence in northwest Denver. 57% of Escuela students are English Language learners; 66% of students qualify for federal meal subsidies and the median household income for Escuela families is $26,000.
  
  Escula needs funding to support its After-School and Summer Enrichment Programs, which are essential to providing children from low-income families a chance to break the cycle of poverty and close the achievement gap.  The additional hours after school and during the summer months provide opportunities for faculty to enrich students academically as well as expose them to new cultural and social perspectives. These students have a safe haven and a purpose during afternoons, evenings and summer months, when adolescents are otherwise distracted or unsupervised.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to develop curriculum and materials and purchase equipment.
• Entity:  Lions Clubs International Foundation
  Project Name:  Hearing Aids Screenings/Fittings
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,795,000
  Lions Clubs proposes a cost-sharing split with the federal government in order to fit 5,000 additional patients across the country. With an overall programmatic cost of just over $3.59 million, the federal cost share of this proposal would be $1.795 million, or $359 per case.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used by the local Lions Club chapter for hearing aid devices, exams and fittings for individuals who need them, but can't afford them. 
• Entity:  Metropolitan State College of Denver
  Project Name:  Ninth Street Park Renovation
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $800,000
  Metropolitan State College of Denver (Metro State) is seeking funding to upgrade the physical structure at 1020 Ninth Street Park.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for upgrades that include electrical improvements that will provide wireless connectivity, bring the building into compliance with ADA requirements, establish a learning/resource center. 
• Entity:  Bethany Christian Services
  Project Name:  Safe Families for Children Program
  Location:  Grand Rapids, MI
  Amount Requested:  $150,000
  Safe Families aims to develop an early intervention response to families with a situational crisis; provide an overwhelmed, resource-limited parent with safe, temporary placement options; and provide support networks to resolve underlying problems.  Safe Families is founded on the premise that a network of host or voluntary foster families who are motivated totally by a sense of compassion (i.e. without financial compensation) provide a fluid and “natural” community safety net for at-risk children and fragile biological families facing situational crises or family turmoil. Distinctive features of Safe Families for Children include focus on “child-well being,” provided expanded options beyond investigation and court action, empowering parents, and a relationship-focused model.
  
  Funding would enable Bethany to implement Safe Families services in Colorado, clustered around 3 goals:
  
  Goal #1: Develop an early intervention response to families with a situational crisis as an alternative to the child protective services system.
  Goal #2: Provide an overwhelmed and resource-limited parent with a safe, temporary placement option for their child.
  Goal #3: Provide the family with linkages to community services and support networks to help them resolve their presenting problems.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for programming, outreach, and administration.
• Entity:  Centura Health
  Project Name:  Patient Data Exchange Pilot Project
  Location:  Englewood, CO
  Amount Requested:  $2,224,500
  Multiple Centura Health hospitals will work with ZOLL Data Systems and EMS providers on a pilot project to establish a mechanism to seamlessly exchange pre-hospital data from emergency responders to hospital emergency rooms to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.
  
  This pilot project would link incoming ambulances to hospital emergency rooms so that the charge nurse or attending ER physician would have immediate access to vital information for patients being transported to that facility prior to arrival. Relevant patient information would include patient demographics, vital sign trending and 12 lead information, all in real time. The clinical benefit is the involvement of more highly trained individuals who would be able to assist the paramedics in diagnosis and treatment of the individual, particularly given the long transport times that commonly exist in rural parts of Colorado.
• Entity:  Denver Museum of Nature & Science
  Project Name:  Colorado Informal Science Broadcast Center
  Location:  Denver, CO
  Amount Requested:  $654,600
  The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) proposes a Colorado Informal Science Broadcast Center to bring informal science and scientists into Colorado classrooms. These projects will leverage cutting-edge technology to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of remote bi-directional video learning across the state.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used to modernize the Museum's infrastructure to:
  -Support a state-wide high-definition video distribution system leveraging Internet
  -Develop an in-house broadcast center
  -Conduct an engineering feasibility study of how best to retrofit 10,000 existing interactive whiteboard systems in Colorado with bi-directional video learning capabilities
• Entity:  Eagle County School District/Gore Range Natural Science School
  Project Name:  Field-Based Natural Science Education Program
  Location:  Avon, CO
  Amount Requested:  $1,000,000
  The construction of an exhibit hall, a dedicated science classroom, and a laboratory will enable the Gore Range Natural Science School to serve all of the children in the ECSD on an annual basis. The construction of a Graduate Fellow's Residence will also indirectly benefit the students of Eagle County by allowing GRNSS to attract the best and the brightest scholars to serve as educators in their programs.
  
  A campus for GRNSS will also allow them to move forward with plans to offer high quality, field based continuing education for science teachers from around the state of Colorado.
  
  The campus will also provide space for administrative offices, a natural science library, a creek side classroom, an outdoor amphitheatre, a rooftop observatory and a field studies base camp that will not only give GRNSS the capability to provide multi-day programs, but can also easily be converted into a lecture hall to accommodate visiting lecturers.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for construction and equipment. 
• Entity:  Special Olympics International
  Project Name:  Project Unify
  Location:  Nationwide
  Amount Requested:  $9,500,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $8,000,000
  Project Unify is critical to Special Olympics International's mission of providing year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, as well as other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for programming, outreach, research, education and recruitment, networking, and personnel.  
• Entity:  Curesearch--National Childhood Cancer Foundation
  Project Name:  Pediatric Cancer Research
  Location:  Nationwide
  Amount Requested:  $30,000,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $1,600,000
  The project supports programs of research excellence in pediatric cancer - to enhance, expand, and intensify pediatric cancer research including therapeutically applicable research to generate effective treatments, pediatric preclinical testing, and pediatric clinical trials through National Cancer Institute-supported pediatric cancer clinical trial groups and their member institutions.
  
  Specifically, funding will be used to enhance and expand infrastructure to track and locate patients to facilitate the study of the epidemiology of pediatric cancer through a nationwide registry of actual occurrences known as the Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN). The CCRN will enable researchers to conduct studies on the causes of childhood cancer and to advance epidemiologic studies of late effects of treatment in cancer patients. The funding will be used to carry out informational services to patients and families affected by childhood cancer.
• Entity:  Crossroads Safehouse, Inc.
  Project Name:  Statewide Domestic Violence Shelter
  Location:  Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested:  $500,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $905,146
  Crossroads Safehouse is pursuing a capital campaign to renovate a donated 29,000-square-foot building for use as the first statewide domestic violence shelter in the United States and the first green Safehouse in Colorado. This building will have 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. This facility is projected to provide adequate safehousing for Colorado victims of domestic violence for at least 30 years.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for renovations and construction of the new facility.
• Entity:  Discovery Science Center
  Project Name:  Fort Collins Discovery Museum
  Location:  Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested:  $2,000,000
  This project will support the Discovery Science Center's construction of the Fort Collins Discovery Museum. The facility will provide people of all ages with opportunities to discover, become inspired, and to expand their understanding of the world. The museum's vision is to create an unprecedented institution of inspiration and learning that will serve as a long-lasting resource to the community.  The new Fort Collins Discovery Museum will inspire students by making science fun.  It nurtures the desire for learning through exploration and prepares them for the challenges of the 21st Century. Educational programs will embrace the goals of S.T.E.M. and exhibit components will be chosen based on the science curricular standards for elementary school students as defined by the National Science Standards and Colorado State Science Standards.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for construction of the Fort Collins Discovery Museum.
• Entity: LEEGH, Inc.
  Project Name: Leadership for Educators Pilot Program
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $4,900,000
  This funding would be used by LEEGH, Inc., a Colorado non-profit, to create a pilot program to train 10,000 teachers in at least six school districts in the United States in leadership development based on the book Leadership Development for Educators.  The program would also include a thorough and rigorous evaluation of the impact of the training on school outcomes, teacher retention and satisfaction, student achievement, graduation rates, and other key school success metrics.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for personnel expenses, website development, programming, training, and travel. 
• Entity: City of Colorado Springs/Pikes Peak-America's Mountain
  Project Name: Pikes Peak Highway Erosion and Sedimentation Control Project
  Location: Colorado Springs, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,500,000
  This application is requesting funding for Phase 7 of the Pikes Peak Highway Erosion and Sedimentation Control Project. The total project consists of seven phases, five of which have been completed as of August 2009 (Phase 6 is scheduled for construction in 2010). Phase 7 will consist of paving 3 miles of unpaved road with 4.5 inches of bituminous asphalt. It will also consist of constructing 2 sediment/runoff retention ponds, creating 5 riprap weir control basins, placing 3 new culverts, improving and extending 14 existing culverts, and eliminating 7 culverts that will stabilize the cut-slopes. Other aspects of the project include stabilizing over 10 acres of the cut/fill slopes and 3 miles of road shoulders through revegetation using native grasses, improving the drainage ditches through the use of erosion control blankets or concrete, and improving culvert inlets and providing these culverts with better outlet protection. The project will also include highway improvements such as curve widening and installing guardrails where needed in accordance with Federal Highway Administration and ASFS safety standards for mountainous roads. The project design has been completed. Environmental Assessment has been completed with a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) issued and environmental permits have been obtained. Additionally, construction and specification documents have been approved by the USFS.
  
• Entity: City of Pueblo
  Project Name: I-25/Dillon Drive/Eden Road Project
  Location: Pueblo, CO
  Amount Requested: $9,550,000
  Funds for this project will be used to construct a split diamond interchange at Platteville Boulevard/Dillon Drive and Eden Road. This project will require the construction of a new bridge over Interstate 25 at Platteville Blvd/Dillon Drive, as well as new on-ramps and off-ramps south of the bridge. The south ramps at the existing interchange would be removed, and a two-way frontage road along the west side of I-25 would connect the north and south halves of the interchange. No modifications to the interstate would be required. This part of the city is considered to be in a transitional state of development. Residential and commercial growth has picked up significantly in the past two years.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for construction purposes, including 614 created jobs. The City of Pueblo has assumed it will need to acquire a 20% match ($1.91 million) for the federal funding requested. The City currently has the funding to complete all other phases of the project except for construction.
• Entity: Adams County
  Project Name: U.S. 85 and 120th Avenue Interchange
  Location: Brighton, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,000,000
  The funding for this project will be used for modifications to the interchange at U.S. 85 and 120th Avenue in Brighton, Colorado. The money will be used to update the Environmental Assessment (EA) and conduct applicable feasibility studies required by the Colorado Department of Transportation for their interchange modification request process. It will also be used to complete the final design. The interchange project will ensure that the intersection of two key National Highway System (NHS) corridors function in an efficient and safe manner.
  
  120th Avenue is significant to the economic and security interests of Colorado and the nation because it serves the north entrance to Denver International Airport (DIA) and is the most practical route for first responders to incidents that may occur in the northern portion of the Airport's influence area. It is also one of the few roadways designated in the Denver Regional Council of Governments' Regional Transportation Plan as a Major Regional Arterial. It has the distinction of this designation primarily because it is one of the few east-west corridors that provides regional connectivity from Boulder County to eastern Adams County due to the physical constraints DIA imposes on the county's road system. With regards to U.S. 85, it is one of the most important regional highways in northeast Colorado, providing access to the Denver metropolitan area for a number of communities in Adams and Weld Counties. It also serves as an alternate route for I-76 and I-25 interstate traffic to the north into Wyoming. As such, U.S. 85 carries a wide range of traffic types: long distance interstate traffic, commuter traffic to the large employment bases in Greeley and Denver, inter-community traffic within its corridor, and considerable agricultural traffic.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for the environmental assessment and design.
• Entity: City of Aurora
  Project Name: Colfax Interchange Project
  Location: Aurora, CO
  Amount Requested: $8,500,000
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $850,000
  This request is for a project that will improve the Colfax interchange on Interstate 225. It will improve an existing diamond interchange into a split diamond interchange, which will in turn improve access to Anschutz Medical Campus and Fitzsimmons Life Sciences District. Currently, vehicles traveling on I-225 are experiencing significant delays during peak times. This is not only a problem for commuters, but also poses a significant life safety threat for emergency vehicles delivering patients to emergency rooms at University and Children's Hospitals on the Anschutz Medical Campus. Improving the traffic flow at the Colfax Interchange will significantly improve the safety of citizens in Aurora and the greater Metro Area.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for construction and project administration.
• Entity: Commerce City, Colorado
  Project Name: East 96th Avenue and State Highway 2
  Location: Commerce City, CO
  Amount Requested: $4,516,900
  This project would support the reconstruction of an existing intersection at East 96th Avenue and State Highway 2. The reconstruction of this intersection will include widening all approaches to 4 lanes; the installation of curb, gutter and sidewalk; installing a storm sewer system; and installing street lighting along East 96th Avenue. The improvements on State Highway 2 include reconstructing the intersection to its ultimate configuration in concrete, and the approaches in asphalt. The traffic signal and the railroad crossing will also be reconstructed and widened, respectively.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for all aspects of construction of the intersection.
• Entity: City & County of Denver
  Project Name: I-25 and South Broadway Interchange Improvements
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $4,800,000
  Funding for this project will begin the implementation of Phase 1 of the approved Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact (EA/FONSI) for multimodal improvements in the vicinity of Interstate 25 and South Broadway in Denver, Colorado. The entire project will improve South Broadway, the I-25 interchange ramps, and the surrounding roadway network to provide safe and efficient mobility for the different modes of travel including pedestrian, bicycle, transit and vehicular. Improvements will address the transportation needs of the adjoining neighborhoods, existing businesses, planned developments, and operations at the adjacent Regional Transportation District's Broadway Light Rail Station, a major bus and rail hub and intersection of the Southeast Light Rail Corridor and the Southwest Light Rail Corridor.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for construction of a new asphalt roadway, attached sidewalks, and lighting along the proposed Exposition and Acoma Alignments.
• Entity: City of Greenwood Village
  Project Name: I-25 and Arapahoe Road Interchange
  Location: Greenwood Village, CO
  Amount Requested: $5,000,000
  This funding request would be for design efforts for interchange improvements to be undertaken as soon as a NEPA Clearance is obtained. A reconfigured interchange would mitigate significant traffic congestion in one of the most densely populated areas in Metro Denver and the State of Colorado. By mitigating traffic congestion, it would also improve the safety of the roads and improve access for emergency services vehicles, commerce, and tourism traffic. The importance of the Arapahoe Road/I-25 Interchange is emphasized by the fact that Arapahoe Road (SH 88) is the only east-west arterial in this part of the Denver metropolitan area that provides continuity well beyond I-25 and Parker Road (SH 83). Due to the limited number of roadways in the southeast metropolitan area, the Arapahoe Interchange becomes a vital link in providing southerly evacuation routes from the urban core. Presently, the capacity of the Arapahoe Interchange is inadequate to accommodate a sudden increase in traffic to evacuate the cities.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for the design stage of the project.
• Entity: Forest City Stapleton
  Project Name: Martin Luther King Boulevard Extension
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  This project completes the construction of the primary east-west arterial through the Stapleton Redevelopment, linking Denver with the neighboring City of Aurora. The funds will provides for final engineering and approvals and will begin the roadway improvements to continue MLK from its current point of termination at Havana Street to a new point of termination at the intersection of Peoria Street and Fitzsimons Parkway in Aurora. This project will improve access to the three-hospital complex of Fitzsimons based medical centers and Fitzsimons Bioscience Park, improve tax base, ease traffic congestion, and complete the planned east/west arterial road.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for engineering and construction costs.  
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: 56th Avenue Improvements
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,837,314
  This project would complete the preliminary design and environmental clearance for construction of a recommended alternative for the widening of 56th Avenue to six lanes from Havana Street to Peña Boulevard (with detached multi-use paths for pedestrians and bicyclists). This project would match the roadway cross-section for 56th Avenue from Quebec Street to Havana Street that was determined through the Environmental Assessment process.
  
• Entity: City of Thornton
  Project Name: North Metro Corridor Transit Development
  Location: Thornton, CO
  Amount Requested: $500,000
  Funding will be used to develop the North Metro Corridor as a sustainable transit corridor that fully integrates transit oriented development, affordable housing, mixed use development and smart growth opportunities. The cities of Thornton and Commerce City, who have green fields located within the North Metro Corridor, have a unique opportunity to develop a sustainable transit corridor. The funds requested would allow the North Metro Corridor to proceed with planning for such development. Planning project elements would include:
  
  - Model uniform zoning code that supports livable and sustainable communities along a major transit rail corridor
  - Model development code, design guidelines, and TOD focused specifications
  - Model building codes including LEED and other sustainable strategies and practices
  - Identification of tools and strategies to appropriately transition from the Greenfield TOD sites into the existing suburban community fabric
  - Development of sustainable densification strategies
  - Integration with existing multi-modal transportation systems
  - Determination of needed utility and transportation infrastructure
  - Identification of preferred land use types and densities that support TOD concept
  - Public engagement of local stakeholders and the development community Implementation strategies  
• Entity: City of Thornton
  Project Name: North Metro Transit Corridor
  Location: Thornton, CO
  Amount Requested: $40,000,000
  This funding will enable construction of the North Metro Transit Corridor, part of the FasTracks plan, to begin sooner than planned.
  
  The North Metro Corridor is located in a quickly growing part of Colorado. Building the North Metro Corridor will reduce regional congestion and provide for managed development within the corridor.
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: South Platte Trail Construction
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,500,000
  The South Platte Regional Trail through Denver is 10.5 miles in length. The funding requested, $2.5 million, would be used to upgrade one of two high-priority sections of the trail: either an expansion of the most heavily used section through the center of the city intersecting with Confluence Park, or the south end of the trail connecting with the regional trail in Arapahoe County, which is already configured similar to our new trail standard.
  
• Entity: B-Cycle, City of Denver
  Project Name: Bike Sharing Program Expansion
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $950,000
  This is a request in partnership with Denver Bike Sharing, the 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable corporation that was created by the City for expansion of a public bike sharing system – a system of high tech, kiosk operated docking stations that offer bicycles to the public at a very low cost for short term, short distances. This funding is half the amount of money required to double the size of the system that will have been launched in 2010. Expansion of the Bike Sharing System in 2010 will add an additional 50 stations and 500 bikes to Denver's City-wide bike sharing system.
• Entity: Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative
  Project Name: RMI2 Permanent Facility
  Location: Fort Collins, CO
  Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  The Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative (RMI2) is currently seeking to build a new permanent facility to replace and consolidate the existing four locations and to house a growing number of companies. Meeting this need will allow RMI2 to operate without debt, thus utilizing its lease revenue for program expansion and enhancements and operating expenses. RMI2 intends to expand its business incubator facilities from 15,000 square feet serving 18 companies to over 30,000 square feet serving 30 companies. One of the unique results of housing a variety of clients in one facility has been the collaboration that has taken place between forward thinking entrepreneurs. Having all of its clients under one roof will greatly enhance this phenomenon. The new building is scheduled to break ground in April 2010. Since the new location is in a city blighted zone, the project will upgrade public infrastructure with street improvements, detention modifications, and utility upgrades. This project will also meet urban renewal criteria including revitalizing blighted property, stimulating private investment, attracting jobs, improving the housing market, impacting the growth of retail, reducing crime, providing infrastructure improvements, boosting property values and preserving historic property to the west of the proposed development.
• Entity: City of Brighton
  Project Name: Adams County Building Renovation
  Location: Brighton, CO
  Amount Requested: $557,380
  The City of Brighton plans to renovate the former Adams County building located at 450 S. 4th Avenue. The City of Brighton recently acquired the 77,000 square foot, 6-story office building, and intends to turn it into their new government center. Federal funding will be used to renovate the building's HVAC, windows and roof using green technology, ensuring significantly increased energy efficiency.
  
  Currently, the City's Administration, Parks & Recreation, Public Works and Information Technology Departments operate out of three different facilities in various locations spread out across Brighton. Renovating/utilizing the newly-acquired Adams County building will enable the City to consolidate operations and customer support services at one convenient location. The City will deliver services more efficiently and staff will more effectively serve the citizens. Services will be under one roof and much more streamlined. The new building will have significantly more parking for residents, and will be much more ADA accessible for residents with special needs. It will also be highly energy efficient.
  
  An estimated 100 jobs will be secured by (1) utilizing firms that specialize in faciliting green projects such as, window replacement, HVAC replacement, and roof repairs, as well as (2) hiring other firms to fill other construction jobs necessary to renovate the building.
• Entity: City of San Luis
  Project Name: AgriCultural Center
  Location: San Luis, Colorado
  Amount Requested: $989,850
  Amount Received in FY 2010: $175,000
  The project involves the construction of an AgriCultural Center near the Town of San Luis, in Costilla County, Colorado. The center would be located on county-owned land and would to serve the purpose of revitalizing and diversifying the agricultural economy. The facility's modern, innovative, environmental, and multifunctional purpose will energize the county's agricultural and predominantly Hispanic populace, which has been marginalized for decades. It will especially provide services to the 50+ member Rio Culebra Agricultural Cooperative, which is composed of small family farms and ranches. The facility and property will also provide a focus for agritourism, highlight agricultural applications of renewable energy, house a demonstration and high-altitude research farm, and provide education and training for youth and farmer-ranchers. The project has two phases, and this requested funding is for the first phase.
  
  Specifically, funding would be used for administration, legal fees, final design, facility construction, site preparation, and property improvements. The final 4,800 sq. ft. "green" multipurpose facility will fully implement the 2009 USDA-funded Rio Culebra Business & Marketing Plan.
• Entity: Town of Mountain Village
  Project Name: Village Court Apartments – Affordable Housing Project
  Location: Mountain Village, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  Village Court Apartments is a town-owned and operated affordable housing project consisting of 221 apartment units in 14 buildings. The average personal income is approximately half the area median income. The project will remedy the mold problem caused by poor construction techniques and compromised building envelopes. Poor ventilation and the improper installation of exterior siding and windows have caused a failure of the building envelope resulting in mold growth.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used to remediate mold, replace insulation, replace incorrectly installed windows, conduct structural repair and reestablish a building envelope on Buildings 4-7.
• Entity: City of Boulder
  Project Name: Permanent and Transitional Housing
  Location: Boulder, CO
  Amount Requested: $3,600,000
  Boulder Housing Partners (BHP), the city's Housing Authority, is negotiating to purchase a vacant parcel located next to the existing Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. Once purchased, the land will be available to expand Boulder's existing Housing First program to provide permanent housing units for individuals with serious mental illness and/or chronic substance abuse and/or physical disabilities. Veterans will also be a focus of this program. Estimates indicate that there are up to 300 chronically homeless individuals across Boulder County and up to 110 in the city of Boulder. The 36 existing housing units for this population are inadequate. All of the units in this project would be available to households earning between 0 and 30% of the Area Median Income. All of the units would be permanently affordable rental housing pursuant to deed restrictions and covenants recorded against the property.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for construction of new housing units.
• Entity: City of Durango
  Project Name: Project LIVE (Livability, Inspiring, Vitality, and Efficiency)
  Location: Durango, CO
  Amount Requested: $1,700,000
  This request is for Phase I of Project LIVE, which is the final design and engineering plans for a LEED-certified four-level multi-modal facility integrated with the new Transit Center. When completed, the facility will provide parking and storage for the transit fleet; serve as a park and ride for regional transit commuters; provide charging stations for electric vehicles; provide secure, covered, and heated bicycle storage; and promote equitable, affordable housing. The implementation of Project LIVE will increase access to regional jobs, health care, educational opportunities, and other activities that enhance daily life. The project will also afford the community the ability to meet the necessary requirements to construct affordable infill housing and the availability of affordable housing in the urbanized area with immediate access to transit service that will reduce the reliance on automobile transportation and provide a viable solution for low- and moderate-income families that could be measured in gas savings, reduced carbon emissions, and a higher quality of life.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used to complete the design and engineering plans.
• Entity: City of San Luis
  Project Name: Renovations for San Luis Museum and Cultural Complex
  Location: San Luis, CO
  Amount Requested: $495,000
  Major renovation and construction grants in significant amounts are very difficult to obtain, especially in low-income areas. This project will preserve a historic building complex, revitalize a key downtown area, create jobs, decrease energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and provide a Center for cultural and agricultural tourism.
  
  The project is located in downtown San Luis, Colorado. Specifically, funds will be utilized for project management, renovation, energy efficiency and heating upgrades, working startup capital, and signage.
• Entity: Jefferson County
  Project Name: Housing for Homeless Veterans
  Location: Jefferson County, CO
  Amount Requested: $600,000
  Jefferson County is seeking federal funds to construct or purchase and renovate housing for homeless veterans in the county. This supportive, transitional (up to 24 months) housing will also include a case management component in order to assist the veterans in becoming self-sufficient.
• Entity: Food Bank for Larimer County
  Project Name: Food Share Pantry Program in Loveland
  Location: Loveland, CO
  Amount Requested: $350,000
  This project will establish a permanent, debt free facility in Loveland, CO to operate our Food Share pantry program. A new facility will allow us to meet the growing demand for food assistance by accommodating more than 20,000 clients and 3 million pounds of food annually at the new 10,100-s.f. facility. It will improve operational efficiencies and client service in both Loveland and Fort Collins by removing the distribution bottleneck, and creating the ability to accept and store food donations, in Loveland. In addition, it will ensure the safety and dignity of clients by separating them from warehouse receiving, and by more than doubling the shopping floor to nearly 2,900 square feet. Federal funding will help us accomplish our goal of raising $2.5 million for this facility.
  
  Specifically, funds will be allocated toward the Food Bank's capital campaign, Larimer Shares: Growing to Feed the Need, a $2.5 million campaign to build a Food Share pantry in Loveland, Colorado. To date, we have secured $707,000 in funding toward the campaign.
• Entity: Greeley-Weld County Airport Authority
  Project Name: Greeley-Weld County Airport Air Traffic Control Tower
  Location: Greeley, CO
  Amount Requested: $6,500,000
  The Greeley-Weld County Airport is the busiest airport in Colorado outside of the Denver metropolitan area, experiencing 145,000 annual aircraft operations. Aircraft operations have increased to the point where positive control of the federally controlled airspace at and around the airport has become a necessity for air safety of aircraft in the entire region. Justification of this is made in the FAA's analysis of the Benefit Cost Ration of 1.76, which exceeds the minimum requirement of 1.0 set forth by the FAA, in Part 170, Section 170.13, "Airport Traffic Control Tower Establishment Criteria". Eligibility in the program however does not cover initial construction costs.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for the approval, design, construction, equipping with radio communications, telecommunications and meteorological instrumentation for a new airport traffic control tower (ATCT) at the Greeley-Weld County Airport, Greeley, Colorado.
• Entity: City of Denver
  Project Name: DIA Taxiway Construction
  Location: Denver, CO
  Amount Requested: $8,000,000
  This funding request will construct Taxiway F7, which is a high speed exit for Runway 16R-34L. This will reduce runway occupancy time while airplanes are arriving and departing to the north, which is DIA's predominant configuration. This will reduce delays for passengers and costs for airlines. Funds will also partially defray the cost to reconstruct Taxiway WD that lies in the path of F7.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used for grading and drainage, concrete pavement, asphalt shoulders, centerline and edge lighting systems integrated with the current lighting system and finally complete surface markings.
• Entity: Project C.U.R.E.
  Project Name: Medical Supplies and Equipment for Developing World
  Location: Centennial, CO
  Amount Requested: $4,800,000
  PROJECT C.U.R.E. is the leading international nonprofit that provides customized, donated medical supplies, equipment, and program services. It would use the appropriated funds to provide customized medical supplies and equipment to needy doctors, nurses, health care clinics, and hospitals in the developing world, especially Africa. PROJECT C.U.R.E. employs a time-tested, supply chain management system that allows 98 cents of every dollar to be used for medical program purposes. The best practices system is a turn-key solution that includes: an onsite, thorough needs assessment to determine customized medical relief for each medical facility; provides all necessary logistical support for the collection, transportation, customs documentation and clearance, and delivery of necessary medical supplies to recipient healthcare facilities; provide verification and follow up needs assessment to ensure quality control and to reduce misuse and crime.
  
  Specifically, funds will be used to purchase medical supplies and deliver them to developing countries.
• Entity: Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group
  Project Name: Peer Navigator Pilot Project
  Location: Colorado Springs, CO
  Amount Requested: $6,000,000
  The proposed “Peer Navigator Pilot Project” is a military-friendly model of care aimed at providing a Peer Navigator to help veterans and their families traverse complex systems of care as they strive to reintegrate into the community.
  
  The proposed project includes the purchase of a multi-unit townhouse development near Fort Carson, Colorado; renovating it; and creating low-income family housing as well as job opportunities and job training for veterans and their families, especially our returning wounded warriors. Veterans working in this program will receive concurrent Peer Navigator services.
  
  Specifically, funds would be used for property purchase, renovation and job training, and programming.