Fiscal Year 2011

Throughout my time in Washington, I have fought to bring federal funding back to Nevada to create jobs, strengthen our classrooms, build roads and infrastructure, diversify the economy, and provide valuable services for all Nevadans.  Some of these accomplishments include funding to construct interchanges on the Clark County Beltway and modernize the Reno Spaghetti Bowl (US 395/I-80); funding to provide equipment for our law enforcement officers; funding to protect Lake Tahoe and fight forest fires; funding to improve life in our rural communities; funding to strengthen our schools and universities; and funding to bring cutting edge research and manufacturing to Nevada.  
 
With the uncertain economic climate and state budget shortfalls, Nevada faces many challenges to maintain and improve our quality of life.  Federal funding can help address some of these priorities and make Nevada an even better place to live, work, and raise a family.
 
Although some criticize "earmarks," or congressionally-directed funding, the Constitution provides Congress with authority to direct federal spending.  Congressionally directed spending is consistent with very core concepts in our democracy - decision making by directly elected officials, responsible to their constituents.  I have always believed that elected officials from Nevada know the state's needs better than a bureaucrat who may have never even been to our state before.  To respond to some of the concerns that have been raised about congressionally-directed spending, I fought to pass ethics reform legislation when I became Senate Majority Leader.  Our legislation reformed the earmarking process, prevented wasteful spending and increased transparency.  Indeed, this webpage and the similar ones on other Senators' websites is a direct result of our reform efforts.  
 
The earmark requests published below were submitted to my office by a diverse array of Nevadans - state and local government officials, non-profits, universities, community groups, and the private sector.  In turn, my office has submitted these requests from Nevada to the leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee for their consideration.  Unfortunately, many deserving projects may not receiving funding and those that do receive funding may not get all of the funding they have requested.   With the many needs throughout Nevada and our nation, I believe we all must make tough choices and it starts with your elected leaders in Washington.
 
Sincerely,
 
Harry Reid

Financial Services Appropriations Requests

Project: Veteran Business and Workforce Development Initiative
Requestor: Nevada Small Business Development Center (NSBDC)
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $250,000
Description: Returning veterans from Iraq/Afghanistan continue to face problems with the economic downturn.  NSBDC plans to provide entrepreneurial job training and assistance to  veterans. This initiative will provide veterans, service-disabled veterans, and military personnel with specialized training and guidance on starting or growing a business.  It will also assist Nevada veteran-owned businesses become more competitive in government contracting and/or overall business operations. 
 
Project: Carson City High Tech Business Collaborative
Requestor: City of Carson City, NV
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Carson City officials are laying the groundwork to attract additional high tech companies to Nevada.  This new business collaborative will provide resources and assistance to high tech companies that are exploring the possibility of re-locating to Nevada. 
 

Project: Lincoln County Industrial Park
Requestor: Lincoln County, Nevada
Location: Alamo, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Vacant industrial land in Southern Nevada is at a premium for local businesses.  In anticipation of an economic turnaround, Lincoln County officials are developing an industrial park 90 miles north of Las Vegas.  Funding will pay for Phase I of the project to prepare the site for occupancy.
 

Project: Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Collaborative Private-Public Partnership
Requestor: Western Nevada College
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $150,000
Description: Carson City is the manufacturing hub of Northern Nevada.  Business leaders have partnered with Western Nevada College to develop a curriculum to provide continuing education for workers and provide them with the latest skills in the industry. 
 

Project: Entrepreneur and Start Up Business Assistance
Requestor: Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NCET)
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Since its inception, NCET has helped educate and train hundreds of entrepreneurs.  Funding would be used to continue their professional services and job training to entrepreneurs.  NCET served more than 3000 Nevadans in their last fiscal year.
 

Project: Business Assistance Initiative
Requestor: Valley Center Opportunity Zone (VCOZ)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $150,000
Description: VCOZ helps stimulate business activity in blighted areas of Las Vegas.  In order to attract development to downtown, this organization provides business assistance and other incentives to local business owners who locate their facilities within the zone.  VCOZ has received funds from the NV legislature in both the 2005 and 2007 legislative sessions.

Building Nevada’s Military Bases (alphabetical order)

Project Name: CAT-M Range Modernization
Request: $2,000,000
Service Component: Army National Guard
Project Location: Nevada National Guard, Nellis Air Force Base
Project Description: The NVNG is designing and developing four small arms ranges on the Nellis Air Force Base CAT-M (Combined Army Training and Maintenance) range. Modernization of the small arms range complex will provide Southern Nevada Soldiers and
Army standard qualification range.

Project Name: Communications Network Control Center
Request: $11,400,000
Service Component: Air Force
Project Location: Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada
Project Description: The Communications Network Control Center will replace an exiting 52 year old facility with a new 12,800 square foot facility. The current Network Control Center only provides 54 percent of the required space and cannot meet the needs of the expanding mission. In addition the current building is degrading at a rapid pace that includes a large 150 foot by 3 inch roof crack, wall leakage, and asbestos exposure. The water leaks have shut down Network Communications for extended periods and have caused degradations of operations.

Project Name: Facility Repair Repair/Fitness Rec Ctr
Request: $867,000
Service Component: Air Force
Project Location: Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada
Project Description: The roof collapsed on building 938 causing significant impact to our ability to maintain fitness for airmen who require special attention physical conditioning and rehabilitation. Airmen and government employees unable to use outdoor facilities due to injuries or chronic medical problems have lost the ability to improve physical agility in a environment focused to their needs.

Project Name: Las Vegas Field Maintenance Shop
Request: $11,500,000
Service Component: Army National Guard
Project Location: Nevada National Guard, Las Vegas, Nevada
The NVARNG will co-locate the Field Maintenance Shop with an existing ARNG Readiness Center in the Southwest part of Las Vegas. The new FMS is intended to replace the small and deteriorating maintenance shop in Henderson, Nevada and also accommodate the large force structure growth the NVARNG has experienced. Currently, units at the Las Vegas Readiness Center must move equipment to facilities that are already over capacity in Henderson or North Las Vegas for maintenance.

Project Name: NSAWC Security Upgrades
Request: $1,480,000
Service Component: Navy
Project Location: Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada
Project Description: Install manual barrier arms at three service vehicle access gates at B-465. Work at B-406 includes fencing the entire building, installing a backup generator and transfer switch; installation of security lighting and a CCTV system, as well as minimal fencing, security lighting reinforcement, and CCTV system for 458 and 465.

Project Name: Wastewater Treatment Plant
Request: $11,630,000
Service Component: Navy
Project Location: Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada
Project Description:   An adequate Wastewater Treatment Plant is required for wastewater processing at NAS Fallon. An upgrade to the current plant is required to meet all new NPDES permit requirements and provide for proper sludge treatment. The project replaces the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant through the addition of a continuous-flow treatment system that will utilize separate stage treatment reactors for carbonaceous BOD removal, followed by nitrification, and then de-nitrification. Equalization basin, separate clarifiers for each system, an anaerobic or aerobic sludge digester for sludge treatment, followed by two sludge drying beds will also be required.

Energy and Water (alphabetical order)

Project: Advanced Computer Simulation Initiative
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: This initiative will provide the University with unique hardware, robust software, and essential infrastructure resources in support of the University research community. The initiative offers the UNLV research community and visiting researchers the ability to visually analyze and compare results of advanced computer simulations.

Project: Alternative Energy Medical Complex
Requestor: Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Location: Clark County
Amount: $500,000
Description: To install a solar photovoltaic system at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, and integrate an advanced regenerative fuel cell system allowing the system to be more flexible. The system would be a showcase project in downtown Las Vegas, serving as an educational facility for patients and the surrounding community. The system will also serve as a backup generator for the Clinic, providing needed redundancy in the event of grid failure.

Project: Analysis of networks between human activity and natural systems
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: State-Wide
Amount: 3,000,000
Description: To create a systems framework to identify relationships between and guide future development networks of human activity and the natural system. The project will analyze 5 US regions, focusing on different patterns of urbanization, economic activity, connection to marketplace, and environment.

Project: Biofuel from Nevada's Municipal Wastes
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To steam treat municipal wastes as a feedstock for biofuel production. Treatment of municipal waste with high pressure steam is not done in the US currently. UNLV has already secured the support of Republic Services, a major waste hauler, to provide source material for research.

Project: Biomedical Life Sciences Imaging Instrumentation: High Speed Multiphon Live Confocal Imaging
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To support a high speed multiphoton live image confocal microscope. This instrument will replace an existing system that is nine years old and at the end of its functional life span.

Project: Caliente Geothermal Exploration Evaluation
Requestor: City of Caliente
Location: Lincoln County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: For a geothermal resource exploratory program to identify and characterize the geothermal resources near Caliente. The city will use the study to determine of the capacity and viability of the resource is adequate to construct a geothermal energy generation plant.

Project: Cheyenne campus energy efficiency & building modernization project
Requestor: College of Southern Nevada
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: To modernize and install energy efficient HVAC and lighting systems, upgrade air handlers, cooling towers, and to consolidate chilled water systems on the campus's Main Building to achieve greater energy efficiency.
Project: Clark County Reclamation District Renewable Energy Feasibility Study
Requestor: Clark County Water Reclamation District
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To perform a feasibility study for biomass and solar electricity generation at wastewater treatment facilities in Clark County.

Project: Collaboration on Renewable Energy Job Creation Strategies
Requestor: Renewable Energy Accelerator 250
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 300,000
Description: To generate collaborative, business-focused solutions to complex challenges that have arisen as we develop a new renewable energy economy. The Think Tank will provide support for Nevada's urban corridors and rural communities.

Project: CSN - Natural Gas HVAC Partnership
Requestor: College of Southern Nevada
Location: Clark County
Amount: 550,000
Description: For a natural gas air conditioning job training program and provide training modules for both residential and commercial applications of natural gas heat pump technology.

Project: CSN - Northwest Campus Sustainability
Requestor: College of Southern Nevada
Location: Clark County
Amount: 500,000
Description: For master planning to develop a physical plan for the new campus with a focus on clean energy infrastructure and sustainability as the new campus begins build out.

Project: Desert Terminal Lakes
Requestor: Nevada entities participating in the restoration of Walker and Pyramid lakes and their water basins.
Location: Northern Nevada
Amount: 87,000,000
Description: Allocation of 2008 Farm Bill funding for Desert Terminal Lakes restoration projects.

Project: Developing Advanced Energy Efficient Electric Motors
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: Develop advanced power electronic devices to improve the efficiency of AC electric motors that are, in general, less than one horsepower. Project tasks include: testing and characterizing electric motors using a recognized motor efficiency testing protocol, development of power electronic systems for voltage and frequency control, developing tools for predicting motor performance, studying impact of power quality, and education/training.

Project: Development of Nontechnology-enhanced Solar Cells with Low Cost and High Conversion Efficiency
Requestor: University of Nevada
Location: Clark County
Amount: 975,000
Description: To design new nanostructured architectures and molecular assemblies for the next-generation of solar cells. The concept is to develop nanoassemblies using electric fields for harvesting energy from sunlight.

Project: Exploration and Correlation of Coordinative Complex Compound Crystal Structures and Associated Thermodynamic Characteristics
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To perform R&D; on the correlation between thermodynamic properties, reaction kinetics & crystal structure/lattice dilation of synthesized new polyammine-complex compound absorption media.
Project: Fernley, City Hall Solar Power Conversion
Requestor: City of Fernley
Location: Lyon County
Amount: 750,000
Description: To install a photovoltaic solar system at the City Hall building to generate up to 80% of needed power.

Project: Fuel Production from CO2 via PhotoElectroChemical (PEC) Process
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: For R&D; on converting CO2 into fuel by harnessing solar energy by integrating electrolysis, catalysis and state-of-art PhotoElectroChemical (PEC) processes to convert CO2 in simulated scrubbers in power plants into liquid fuels.

Project: Great Basin College - Direct Use Geothermal Demonstration Project
Requestor: Great Basin College
Location: Elko County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: To create an opportunity for sustainable professional, technical and skilled and unskilled labor jobs and, through education and training, help to develop the regional workforce by enhancing and expanding an existing geothermal heating system serving four public agencies in Elko.

Project: Henderson Solar Energy Project
Requestor: City of Henderson
Location: Clark County
Amount: 2,500,000
Description: To install solar panels on a 32-acre site next to the Kurt R. Segler Water Reclamation Facility in the City of Henderson. The project would produce 6 megawatts of electricity to power the water reclamation facility, reducing the City's purchase of electricity from Nevada Power for the facility by as much as 20 percent and providing a major savings for City taxpayers and for Utility ratepayers.

Project: Huffaker hills Reservoir Lining and Storage Enhancement Project
Requestor: Washoe County Department of Water Resources
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 625,000
Description: To complete the liner installation by 2011 and plan for and complete design and construction to increase storage capacity in Huffaker Reservoir by raising the dam and completing other related construction by 2015.

Project: Incline Village Incline and Third Creek Restoration
Requestor: Incline Village General Improvement District
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 2,700,000
Description: The Incline and Third Creek Restoration project is to restore and rehabilitate sections of Incline Creek and Third Creek to improve channel stability and enhance water quality, fish habitat, and wildlife habitat.

Project: Industrial Technologies Program Language
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Location: Clark County
Amount: Legislative Language
Description: To support micro turbine power generation up to 400kW and the development, testing, and evaluation of pulse flow refrigerant, variable speed/variable capacity air cooled absorption exhaust heat recovery technology

Project: Innovative Research to Enable Domestic Production of Medical Radioisotopes
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: Research under this project would seek to eliminate or reduce the need to rely on foreign produced radioisotopes, reduce cost, and improve reliability of the supply by implementing a “liquid reactor” that could be circulated through a neutron source to produce the 99Mo as a fission product. The entire system can be automated and the reactor can be shut off at will.

Project: Las Vegas Residential Energy Efficiency Program
Requestor: City of Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 500,000
Description: To launch a Sustainable Neighborhood Pilot Program that will perform residential energy efficiency audits and retrofits, and renewable energy installation, particularly for lower income families. This program will improve social equity in the City's older neighborhoods, while also serving as a demonstration for the larger neighborhood and increasing the sustainability of the larger community.

Project: Las Vegas Valley Water District, Distributed Solar Array
Requestor: Las Vegas Valley Water District
Location: Clark County
Amount: 2,000,000
Description: For the design and construction of a 400-500 kW distributed solar photovoltaic array at the Las Vegas Valley Water District's Tropical Satellite facility.

Project: Las Vegas Wash Flood Management Project
Requestor: Clark County Regional Flood Control District
Location: Clark County
Amount: 400,000
Description: To conduct the required, initial feasibility study to permanently improve the capacity of the Las Vegas Wash.

Project: Las Vegas Wash Improvement Project
Requestor: Southern Nevada Water Authority
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,850,000
Description: For the restoration, habitat enhancement, and water quality improvement of Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead by implementing various action items in the adaptive management plan, necessary to provide for the restoration and long-term management of the wash.

Project: Metropolis Irrigation Restoration Project
Requestor: Metropolis Water Irrigation District
Location: Elko County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: To rebuild the Bishop Creek dam, creating a pool for water storage for downstream water users, providing recreation opportunities for area tourism and economic development and creating the potential for future hydro electric generation.

Project: Murry Creek Storm Drain
Requestor: City of Ely
Location: White Pine County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: Replacement of old corroded 71"x47" corrugated metal arch pipe storm sewer with two 54" HDPE pipes with associated paving, boxes and connections.

Project: National Ecotoxicology Center for Understanding Environmentally Linked Cancers
Requestor: Nevada Cancer Institute
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: To develop a national center in Nevada dedicated to the monitoring and the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of environmentally linked cancers. Current NVCI and DRI faculty and newly hired investigators will develop an interdisciplinary institute for solving environmental-related health-science issues.

Project: Nevada Inter-Tribal Energy Consortium
Requestor: Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Incorporated
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 150,000
Description: Funding will directly benefit 27 federally recognized Indian tribes in Nevada by supporting the development of energy on Indian lands. This assistance would include building tribal capacity related to energy development with the long term goal to facilitate a tribal energy cooperative which would generate clean energy.

Project: Nevada Renewable Energy Consortium
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: State-Wide
Amount: 7,500,000
Description: The Nevada Renewable Energy Consortium is an association among the three Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) research institutions that will engage in mostly applied research activities designed to advance renewable energy technologies from lab scale to demonstration and commercialization.

Project: Nevada Renewable Energy Innovation and Development Cluster- Technology Commercialization and Site Development
Requestor: Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization
Location: State-Wide
Amount: 9,500,000
Description: A broad coalition of statewide stakeholders (UNLV, UNR, DRI, NDA, & EDAWN) are collaborating to create and grow two large-scale renewable energy industry “clusters”—one each, in southern and northern Nevada, resulting in significant near-term job creation. The initiative is designed to launch a center for renewable energy “asset deployment”

Project: Nevada Water Resources Data, Modeling, and Visualization (DMV Center)
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To create a statewide center to house and use all available relevant data needed to better understand the current and potential future distribution of water resources within Nevada. The project will require a dedicated supercomputer along with new faculty in information management, hydrologic, atmospheric, and ecological modeling.

Project: NLV Water Reuse Facility
Requestor: City of North Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 5,000,000
Description: To complete construction of a Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) and collection/discharge systems at the Nellis AFB. Once complete, the WRF will be able to treat all of the wastewater within the City's service area.

Project: Oversight of Yucca Mountain Shut Down and Reclamation
Requestor: Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects
Location: Carson City
Amount: 2,850,000
Description: Provide technical and policy oversight of activities in Nevada associated with the shut down of the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste repository project including activities related to the physical closure of the the Yucca Mountain site and associated facilities and lands, reclamation and remediation of lands and resources, enviornmental analyses required as a result of the shut down, and other activities to protect Nevada's interests.

Project: Panaca Flood Control
Requestor: Lincoln County
Location: Lincoln County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: Final design and construction of improvements to mitigate flood hazard in the Town of Panaca. Certain road sections and intersections are unable to handle storm water flow and the Town experiences pounding in areas with inadequate drainage.

Project: Pioche Public Utilities, Water System Upgrade
Requestor: Lincoln County
Location: Lincoln County
Amount: 825,000
Description: To upgrade the current fire protection water flow in the Town of Pioche and to install fire hydrants in areas of the town that are currently without hydrants.

Project: Rancho Women's and Children's Campus Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Requestor: WestCare Foundation
Location: Clark County
Amount: 500,000
Description: To make facility upgrades to improve energy efficiency, including green roofing, insulation, impact resistant high efficiency windows and doors, and upgrades to improve the efficiency of the HVAC system.

Project: Rapid Battery Charging Device for Electric Vehicles
Requestor: Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association, together with UNLV researchers and local partners, will build advanced prototypes of rapid battery chargers and will test and evaluate the design, performance, and manufacturability of those prototypes using existing electric vehicles.
 

Project: Renewable Energy Feasibility Study and Resources Assessment for Lincoln County, NV
Requestor: Lincoln County
Location: Lincoln County
Amount: 500,000
Description: This project is to facilitate rapid development of Lincoln County's abundant solar, biomass, geothermal and wind energy resources through identification, analysis and formulation of effective strategies for capitalization of opportunities for utility-scale and locally-distributed generation of renewable energy resources.

Project: Reno Hydrogen Fuel
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: To build on past years' work to establish an international center for development of geothermal and hydrogen fuel technologies, through the build up of hydrogen fuel infrastructure and retrofitting vehicles.

Project: Research and Development of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: For R&D; on building a cost-effective, long-lasting, enviromentally friendly, and abuse-tolerant lithium-based battery for transportation systems. Research will be both applied and fundamental, addressing barriers faced by the application of lithium batteries, and overcoming chemical instabilities and avoiding battery failure.

Project: Rosewood Creek Area A
Requestor: Nevada Tahoe Conservation District
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To finalize design documents, secure final permits and construct the restoration project on 2,200 linear feet of the Rosewood Creek channel between State Route 28 and 100 feet upstream of Northwood Boulevard in Incline Village, NV, as part of the on-going Bureau of Reclamation effort to restore Rosewood Creek.

Project: Rural Nevada Water Infrastructure - Sec. 595 (appropriation)
Requestor: Rural Nevada counties and towns
Location: Rural Nevada counties and towns
Amount: 20,000,000
Description: To fund Sec. 595 of WRDA 1999 (P.L. 109-53) to provide rural localities in Nevada with funding for the design and construction of water supply, wastewater treatment, environmental restoration and surface water protection projects.

Project: Rural Nevada Water Infrastructure - Sec. 595 (authorization)
Requestor: Rural Nevada counties and towns
Location: Rural Nevada counties and towns
Amount: 50,000,000
Description: To increase the authorized funding level for the Sec. 595 Rural Nevada program authorized by WRDA 1999. Below are $55.2M in project requests that would benefit from increasing the authorized funding.

Project: Solar Energy Infrastructure Enhancement
Requestor: Three Square Food Bank
Location: Clark County
Amount: 2,000,000
Description: To enhance the infrastructure of Three Square Food Bank's new regional food campus by installing a rooftop solar array on the rooftops of two warehouses totaling 120,000 square feet. Utilizing solar energy will enable Three Square to reduce its annual energy costs by at least 50% -- a significant savings which can be used to collect and distribute more food to the growing number of southern Nevadans in need of hunger-relief.

Project: Solid State Preparation and Characterization Lab
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno, (UNR)
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: For the construction and development of a Solid State Preparation and Characterization Lab that will include state-of-the-art equipment to prepare and analyze a wide range of solid state samples for scientific research and engineering applications.

Project: Southwest Water Reclamation Facility
Requestor: City of Henderson
Location: Clark County
Amount: 5,000,000
Description: For construction of the Southwest Water Reclamation Facility. The 8 million-gallon-per-day facility will use state-of-the-art Membrane Bioreactor and ultraviolet disinfection technologies to treat wastewater for reuse in a rapidly growing part of Henderson.

Project: Sustainable Campus Initiative of Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe
Requestor: Sierra Nevada College
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 400,000
Description: For energy efficient improvements and integrating renewable energy for the college's facilities, which will also contribute to public education programs and working with partners in green building and clean energy development.

Project: Tahoe Partnership (Section 234)
Requestor: Lake Tahoe Transportation and Water Quality Coalition
Location: Lake Tahoe
Amount: 900,000
Description: For design and construction assistance for stream zone restoration and the control and treatment of urban storm water.

Project: Tahoe Restoration (Section 108)
Requestor: Lake Tahoe Transportation and Water Quality Coalition, Andrew Strain
Location: Lake Tahoe
Amount: 8,500,000
Description: For direct on-the-ground design and construction assistance to local and state government for stream zone restoration and treatment of urban storm water. Both of these types of projects are identified as critical components of watershed restoration.

Project: Transmutation and Fuel Cycle Research and Development Program
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To support a multi-disciplinary student research program supporting graduate and undergraduate student involvement in the R&D; of nuclear transmutation as a part of the national Fuel Cycle Research & Development Program.

Project: Truckee Meadows, Nevada Flood Control Project
Requestor: Truckee River Flood Control Project
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 20,000,000
Description: To provide protection from flood damage, ecosystem restoration, and recreation along the Truckee River from Reno to Pyramid Lake. To continue work on the General Re-evaluation Report, Environmental Impact Statement, pre-construction engineering design, and to begin construction on one or more already-authorized features of the project.

Project: Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility Environmental and Energy Enhancement
Requestor: City of Sparks
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: For the installation of a 1 megawatt co-generator to convert methane gas produced from wastewater sludge into electricity for Reno, Sparks and most of Washoe County. Utilizing this renewable energy supply, the co-generator unit will reduce the wastewater treatment plant's total electrical consumption by 20-30%.

Project: UMC Data Center Energy Efficiency Project
Requestor: University Medical Center
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: The UMC Data Center Energy Efficient Projects will reduce overhead costs by purchasing energy efficient computing and environmental controls equipment and reducing the consumption of water, power, and other resources.

Project: UNLV – Intermountain West Sustainable Development Project
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Location: Clark County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: To support the Intermountain West Research Office’s efforts to develop strategies for dealing with growth in the region, including for development of sustainable hard infrastructure (clean energy, water and transportation) and soft infrastructure (policy and government institutions).

Project: UNR - Energy Storage for Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To form an interdisciplinary team to address 5 (inter-related) energy storage technologies through fundamental research, scale-up of prototype technologies, and integration into the emerging “smart grid”.

Project: UNR - Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: For competitive research, education (UNR students plus workforce training and professional development), and outreach through the Center.

Project: UNR - Laser Laboratory
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: For design, construction, and implementation of a laser laboratory and an affiliated computational facility for quantum spectroscopy. The laboratory facilities will offer temperature-controlled clean-room facilities with state-of-the-art laser and optical systems.

Project: UNR - Matching Renewable Resources With Available Loads
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 500,000
Description: For matching renewable resources, such as wind and solar energy, to residential, commercial and industrial energy consumption in Reno to address critical challenges with wide scale deployment of renewables, including intermittency, integration, penetration, coordination, reliability, and power quality.

Project: UNR - Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Outreach Education Program
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 200,000
Description: To implement a renewable energy and energy efficiency outreach educational program for Nevada. The targeted audience would include the general public, homeowners, landowners, small businesses, agricultural producers, local government, communities and community leaders.

Project: UNR - Smart Grid Development
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: For the design, install, test, and study smart grid technology for the UNR campus. The objective is to intelligently manage and reduce UNR power consumption by addressing issues such as load management, integration, protection, emergency coordination, monitoring, communication, power quality, system reliability and maintenance.

Project: UNR - X-Ray Structure and Dynamics Laboratory
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,500,000
Description: For a new combined Laue x-ray/solid state/surface analysis facility for studying composition, structure, and dynamics in bulk materials and surfaces, plus powder and single crystal capabilities for crystallographic/structural characterization of minerals, new synthetic materials, and biochemical compounds.

Project: Urban Flood Demonstration Program
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 2,000,000
Description: To support an ongoing collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Engineer Research and Development Center to develop capacity to reduce flood damage in urban areas and develop integrated design tools for stream restoration.

Project: WateReuse Foundation
Requestor: Southern Nevada Water Authority
Location: Clark County
Amount: 2,500,000
Description: To support applied research to demonstrate the chemical and microbiological safety of recycled and reclaimed water, which will reduce costs and improve the efficiency of water recycling, desalination processes and brine concentrate disposal.

Project: Wheeler Wash Flood Control Project, Pahrump, NV
Requestor: Nye County
Location: Nye County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To conduct a feasibility study of flood control for the Wheeler Wash in order to do a cost benefit analysis and assessment of flood control designs that will most effectively address flooding.

Project: Wind Resource Monitoring and Training Program
Requestor: Truckee Meadows Community College
Location: Washoe County
Amount: 1,000,000
Description: To accurately model wind resources in Nevada, this project will develop a Nevada-specific computer model. TMCC, in cooperation with the Desert Research Institute, will develop the model using data gathered from a network of anemometers set up throughout the State. The first phase of the project is measuring and monitoring of wind resources at multiple locations to determine the reliability of this energy resource in relation to the unique terrain of Nevada. Workforce training will also be a component of the project.

Project: Yerington Paiute Tribe Renewable Energy Demonstration Program
Requestor: Yerington Paiute Tribe Housing Authority
Location: Lyon County
Amount: 700,000
Description: For the installation of a renewable energy system that will reduce power bills of occupants of the Elder Complex apartments. Occupants are typically low-income/fixed income.

Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee

Safeguarding Nevada’s Natural, Historical and Cultural Resources

Project: Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Program
Recipient: Tahoe Regional Planning Agency & Fish and Wildlife Service
Location: Stateline, NV
Amount: $2,500,000
Description: Aquatic invasive species pose an enormous threat to the ecology and the economy of the Lake Tahoe Basin. The Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Program will help control and eradicate existing invasive species, prevent new introductions, and provide early detection and rapid response to new invasive species introductions should they occur.

Project: Dresslerville Senior Center Renovation
Recipient: Washoe Indian Tribe
Location: Gardnerville, NV
Amount: $900,000
Description: The current Dresslerville Senior Center is more than thirty years old. When it was constructed in the 1970's this was a state of the art building, but now the roof needs replacement and the kitchen facilities are old and not energy efficient. Improving the facility with a new roof and a general renovation will save energy and will help lower monthly bills for the Senior Center.

Project: Mesquite Regional Park Trails
Recipient: City of Mesquite
Location: Mesquite, NV
Amount: $250,000
Description: The Mesquite Regional Park and Trail System is an extensive open space system within the Mesquite city limits. This funding will help construct 7 miles of walking and jogging trails, 6 miles of bike trails and two trail heads with parking lots and restrooms. Signage will be used throughout the trail system to educate the public about the local plant life.

Project: Save America’s Treasures - Westside School Historic Rehabilitation
Recipient: City of Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $400,000
Description: Las Vegas’ oldest remaining schoolhouse was built in 1923 on land donated by Helen J. Stewart. It was the first public school attended by Native American students from the Paiute Indian Colony. The school was also the first in Nevada to integrate its student population. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and will be listed on the city of Las Vegas Historic Property Register in May 2010. This project will provide a tremendous economic and educational benefit to the surrounding community and supply a much-needed cultural venue for social and educational opportunities.

Project: Nye County Mineral Assessment
Recipient:  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the USGS, and their partners are respected authorities on Nevada’s unique geology. This study will allow more complete information on the mineral and energy resources of Nye County, and will better inform Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service management decisions.

Project: Genoa Township Trail Construction
Recipient: Town of Genoa
Location: Genoa, NV
Amount: $125,000
Description: The Town of Genoa, Douglas County, the US Forest Service, and the Nature Conservancy are collaborating to construct a route for walkers, joggers, bicyclists, and other non-motorized recreational users that follows an original part of the emigrant trail. The new trail will provide a safe alternative to the Foothills road for residents and visitors to enjoy this high-quality historic and natural area.

Project: Water Quality and Delivery Research
Recipient: Water Research Foundation
Location: Las Vegas and Washoe County
Amount: $500,000
Description: The Water Research Foundation sponsors research projects that enable utilities to provide safe, affordable, and sustainable water to their customers. Research focuses on addressing pressing challenges such as climate change impacts on water supply, pharmaceutical contaminants in drinking water, aging infrastructure, and protection of watersheds.

Project: Duck Valley Indian Reservation Water Rights Settlement
Recipient: Duck Valley Indian Reservation and other parties to the settlement
Location: Northern Elko County
Amount: $12,000,000
Description: This appropriation continues to fund the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement, which resolved outstanding issues with respect to the East Fork of the Owyhee River in Nevada.

Project: UNLV Institute for Applied History of the North American West
Recipient: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $140,000
Description: The Institute would focus on public lands and historic and cultural preservation to provide research and scholarly perspective on a range of controversial issues connected to infrastructure development in a fragile desert environment. This initiative will make it possible to better link the efforts of humanities scholars with community leaders and organizations working on solutions to issues of vital importance to the state and region.

Project: Washoe Tribe NRHP Nomination Study
Recipient: Washoe Tribe
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $100,000
Description: This funding would help the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California with their proposed nomination of three Traditional Cultural Properties (TCPs) for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places. The three TCPs are of Washoe origin, are important to the Washoe Tribe for their cultural value, and are still used for traditional cultural activities.

Project: Lake Tahoe Community Fire Protection Project
Recipient: Lake Tahoe Community Fire Protection Partnership
Location: South Lake Tahoe
Amount: $500,000
Description: Lake Tahoe is a national treasure of immense beauty that draws visitors from all over the world. The Lake Tahoe Community Fire Protection Partnership is a bi-state collaboration created in response to the severe fire threat in the Lake Tahoe Basin and the need for a comprehensive regional approach. The goal of this project is to improve water distribution systems and regional interconnectivity in order to better respond to forest fires.

Protecting Nevada’s Fish and Wildlife Populations

Project: Nevada Biodiversity Initiative
Recipient: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $750,000
Description: The Nevada Biological Resources Research Center is a major program developed by the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University in response to the need for science-based approaches for conservation planning. This project provides sound scientific support and conservation efforts to protect sensitive and endangered species, including research that has been essential for identifying and protecting rare and sensitive species and their habitats in Nevada.

Project: Nevada Steelhead and Salmon Restoration
Recipient: Nevada Salmon Project
Location: Northern Nevada
Amount: $400,000
Description: Prior to construction of dams in Oregon and Idaho, Nevada had robust annual runs of steelhead and salmon in four rivers in the northeastern part of the state that are tributaries of the Columbia-Snake River system. This project will support efforts to transport surplus steelhead and salmon from the Snake River in Idaho/Oregon to their historic habitat in northern Nevada. The goal of this project is to establish a put-and-take fishery, in close coordination with local land owners, for Nevada’s sportsmen.

Project: Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Restoration
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: The famed Lahontan cutthroat trout fishery of the Lake Tahoe, Pyramid Lake, and Walker Lake systems is an icon of western Nevada's history. The Fish and Wildlife Service, states of Nevada and California, University of Nevada, Forest Service, several Tribes, and local communities have undertaken a long-term cooperative effort to restore this historic fishery. Further federal partnership will allow continued implementation of this important recovery effort.

Project: Sage Grouse Candidate Conservation Projects
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Location: Rural Nevada
Amount: $250,000
Description: This funding will enable the Fish and Wildlife Service in Nevada to initiate development of Candidate Conservation Agreements and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances for greater sage-grouse. These voluntary agreements will reduce the need to list this new candidate species and will provide important protections for land owners and key Nevada industries.

Project: Large Game Water Catchments
Recipient: Nevada Bighorns Unlimited
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $150,000
Description: With the assistance of Nevada Bighorns Unlimited, populations of Desert, Rocky Mountain, or California bighorn sheep have been restored to their former habitat in over 50 mountain ranges. However, the springs and seeps that these animals have historically relied upon for water are dwindling due to Nevada’s prolonged drought and increased demands on the State’s water resources. Nevada Bighorns Unlimited, along with other agency partners, will construct a series of large game water collection and access features on public land in Nevada to continue to support Nevada’s wildlife populations.

Project: Nevada Sage Grouse Habitat Restoration and Rural Jobs Program
Recipient: Great Basin Institute
Location: Rural Nevada
Amount: $500,000
Description: Rural Nevadans will be hired to work with the Great Basin Institute to restore sage grouse habitat across Nevada. Not only will this help conserve and protect the sage grouse but young people will have the opportunity to gain on-the-ground experience in natural resources management in Nevada.

Improving Infrastructure for Nevada’s Most Precious Resource – Water

Project: Marlette-Hobart Water System Overhaul
Recipient: Carson City, NV
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: The Marlette-Hobart water supply system delivers water to Carson City, and has served as the sole water supply for Virginia City since the 1870’s. The extreme age of the system has caused it to become unreliable, and components of the system are in urgent need of replacement. The system will be getting a modern pump and upgraded water lines to ensure its reliability into the future.

Project: Water Service Restoration
Recipient: Las Vegas Paiute Tribe
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $450,000
Description: The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe's water delivery infrastructure needs to be replaced to provide for the added capacity needed for commercial and residential development expected over the next few years. Federal funds will be matched with tribal funds to replace pumps and water lines, and will bring certainty to the Tribe's water supply.

Project: Update of Municipal Well #1 in Dayton
Recipient: Dayton, NV
Location: Dayton, NV
Amount: $100,000
Description: Updating Dayton well #1 is critical to meet residents’ peak summer water demands. The old well is failing and does not have the required 100 foot sanitary seal. This funding will help provide water for Dayton and bring the well into compliance with the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection and Environmental Protection Agency requirements.

Project: Boulder City Third Water Intake Project
Recipient: Boulder City, NV
Location: Boulder City, NV
Amount: $150,000
Description: This water intake project will construct a lower water intake at Lake Mead to protect Boulder City’s only water supply during extended periods of drought. Lake Mead, on the Colorado River, is the sole water source for the City of Boulder City, Nevada. Currently, this watershed is experiencing the worst drought on record. If the lake level continues to fall as projected, the water intake pipeline supplying the water treatment plant could be left high and dry.

Project: Regional Strategic Initiative to Develop Wastewater Effluent Management and Reclaimed Water Resources
Recipient: Washoe County Department of Water Resources
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Local officials are initiating a planning process to develop a regional plan and strategy to manage wastewater effluent and further integrate reclaimed water resources into the region’s water resources portfolio. The goal of this project is to develop a master plan for effluent management and reclaimed water resources that can be implemented by the fifth year of the anticipated 10 year initiative.

Agriculture Appropriations

Project: Invasive/Noxious Weed Management in Nevada
Requestor: Nevada Department of Agriculture
Location: Sparks, NV
Amount: $300,000
Description: Invasive weeds like cheatgrass threaten Nevada rangeland by fueling potential catastrophic wildfires, encroaching on grazing lands, and pushing out sagebrush habitat that is needed to prevent the listing of sensitive species on the Endangered Species List. The Nevada Department of Agriculture works with local Cooperative Weed Management Areas to control invasive weeds and restore previously infested areas.

Project: Nevada ARS Lab Capacity Building
Requestor: Office of Senator Reid
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $1 million
Description: We are working with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to decouple the Reno ARS lab from California regional headquarters in order to help us focus on Nevada-specific research projects like rangeland restoration. Funding will help ARS jump-start this plan.

Project: Great Basin Plant Materials Center in Fallon, NV
Requestor: Office of Senator Reid
Location: Fallon, NV
Amount: $1 million
Description: The Great Basin Plant Materials Center was created in FY04 to work on a number of high priority projects in Nevada including erosion control, water quality, forage and rangeland, and habitat improvement for sensitive species like the sage grouse. This funding will help the Center to complete work on these projects.

Project: UNR Nevada Arid Rangelands Initiative
Requestor: University of Nevada Reno
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: The Nevada Arid Rangelands Initiative funds research, education, and projects to manage Nevada’s arid lands. This funding will support 10-15 research projects on wildfires, invasive weeds, and wildlife.

Project: UNR Participation in Food Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)
Requestor: University of Nevada Reno
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $350,000
Description: UNR is the newest partner in a research group of state universities that comprise FAPRI. Their work focuses on research on the cattle and sheep industries. FAPRI provides important agricultural data and analyses that cannot be obtained elsewhere.

Project: Conservation Fuels Management and Restoration
Requestor: The Wildfire Support Group
Location: Orovada, NV
Amount: $400,000
Description: The Wildfire Support Group is a volunteer non-profit organization that works with public land agencies to prevent wildfires.

Project: Mormon cricket control
Requestor: Nevada Department of Agriculture
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $1 million
Description: Mormon crickets hatch on federal lands and spread out to infest million of acres in Nevada and other Western states. Nevada ranchers lose valuable grazing land to swarms of insects and the crickets also present a significant traffic hazard on Nevada highways.

Project: Carson City Waterfall Fire Restoration
Requestor: Carson City
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $250,000
Description: Carson City is still working to recover from the devastating 2004 wildfire. Funding will help the City pay for projects like flood and sediment attenuation areas, a water treatment plan access road and restoration of an alluvial fan and drainage channels.

Project: Cold Springs Drop Structure
Requestor: Lincoln County
Location: Lincoln County, NV
Amount: $250,000
Description: A flood control structure built in the 1930s is in need of repair. The structure is located just south of the Town of Panaca along the Meadow Valley Wash that flows through the City of Caliente and provides flood protection to public infrastructure including a major railroad bridge and highway.

Commerce, Justice, Science

Project Name: Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT)
Requestor: The Children’s Cabinet
Location: Reno
Amount: $175,000
Description: Funding will be used to hire a case manager to provide case management services and improve day treatment and afterschool programs for youth who abuse drugs. The ADAPT Case Managers will conduct an initial assessment of the youth's situation and needs and establish a treatment plan.

Project Name: Advancing Fair, Accessible, Timely & Economical Justice Program
Requestor: National Judicial College
Location: Reno
Amount: $1,500,000
Description: The National Judicial College educates judges and justice system professionals by providing such programs as new judge training and advanced courses on managing complex cases. This funding will be used to addresses 4 main areas: a) scholarships to assist judges to attend an NJC course, b) development of curriculum to address important issues, c) training of justice system professionals to teach in judicial education programs across the country, and d) development of new justice improvement projects.

Project Name: CARE Law Program
Requestor: Nevada Rural Counties RSVP Program
Location: Rural Counties
Amount: $150,000
Description: RSVP’s CARE Law program provides pro bono legal services for low-income and homebound seniors in Nevada, especially those in the 15 rural counties who are otherwise unable to access or afford such legal assistance. This assistance centers around the prevention and resolution of criminal elder abuse by providing durable Powers of Attorney, wills, guardianships, and assistance with estate and probate issues.

Project Name: Center for Regional Economic Development and Sustainability
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: Southern Nevada has been one of the hardest hit areas of the United States during the worst recession of this generation. In order for the state’s economy to recover, a multi-faceted approach must be taken. The university will use these funds for research, development, technology transfer, and outreach that will help the region grow and diversify the local hospitality dominated economy in the years to come.

Project Name: Child Abuse and Neglect Training for Judicial Personnel Project
Requestor: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Location: Reno
Amount: $1,875,000
Description: Funding supplements the Child Abuse and Neglect Training for Judicial Personnel Project. In addition to the foundational training and technical assistance received by the Model Courts, this grant enables the NCJFCJ to reduce disproportionality and disparities in the foster care system; to take cutting-edge performance measurement tools and apply them directly to Model Court system change efforts; and to recognize achievement of the Model Courts and growth of the project designating Model Courts as senior status, and bringing new jurisdictions into the project.

Project Name: Computerized Criminal History Project
Requestor: Nevada Department of Safety
Location: Statewide
Amount: $350,000
Description: The Nevada Department of Public Safety is seeking funds for their Records and Technology Division for a needs assessment of Nevada’s Computerized Criminal History (CCH) system. Nevada’s current CCH is operating on U-Soft Technology which is outdated, not vendor supported and does not comply with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s rules on fingerprint records. The needs assessment would result in a Request for Proposal (RFP) to actually rewrite Nevada’s CCH and participate in the FBI's National Fingerprint File program.

Project Name: Courthouse and Juvenile Facilities Security Upgrades
Requestor: Carson City
Location: Carson City
Amount: $249,200
Description: Carson City is requesting funding to make security upgrades at the Carson City Courthouse and Juvenile Facilities. Planned courthouse security improvements include: radios for court security personnel; ballistic vests to protect officers; security screening for windows; bullet resistant glass panels; security cameras; and enhanced video security system. The Juvenile Court and Juvenile Detention/Probation facility upgrades include: monitoring cameras and system for all accessible areas; perimeter security improvements; bullet proof glass; and electric switch/speaker phone system for screening visitors.

Project Name: Defendant Education, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Project
Requestor: City of Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas
Amount: $1,422,032
Description: The Las Vegas Municipal Court is merging its four specialty courts into one problem solving court and implementing a statutorily required policy and procedure to identify Veterans in need of services. Funds will pay for critically needed treatment; direct client needs, e.g. transportation, education and prevention and intervention services for eligible participants, all in accordance with best practices to reduce recidivism. Additionally, it will be used for alcohol and drug testing devices.

Project Name: El Dorado Valley Regional Public Safety Training Facility
Requestor: City of Henderson
Location: Clark County
Amount: $900,000
Description: The funds will be used to equip the Eldorado Valley Regional Public Safety Training Facility to house all in-service range and in-service firearms qualifications training for the Henderson Police Department, the Boulder City Police Department, and other Southern Nevada law enforcement agencies. 

Project Name: Elko County Translator Site
Requestor: Elko County
Location: Spring Creek
Amount: $200,000
Description: For purchasing and installing a microwave link which will be tied into the existing television districts microwave backbone. This will allow Elko to receive the digital television signals of ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. Additionally, it will allow for greater capacity for radio broadcasting.

Project Name: Fire Safe and Protected Program
Requestor: North Lyon County Fire Protection District
Location: Lyon County
Amount: $200,000
Description: Funds will be used to purchase a new Ambulance, thirty sets of Firefighter Personal Protective Equipment, and for funding Firefighter and EMS staff physicals. The funding from this program will allow the District to maintain their limited staff and ensure that safety levels are maintained during the coming year, which is predicted to have increased risk of fires.

Project Name: Grant Sawyer Center Justice Education Program
Requestor: University of Nevada Reno
Location: Reno
Amount: $500,000
Description: The funding will be used to develop curriculum and improve course offerings in the justice area available to judges and other justice system personnel through UNR’s Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies, Judicial Studies, and Justice Management Programs. These courses are offered in conjunction with the Nation Judicial College and National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, both headquartered on the university campus.

Project Name: High School Police Vehicles
Requestor: Clark County School District School Police
Location: Clark County
Amount: $765,000
Description: Provide the School Police with 100% electric Police Mobility Vehicles for the High School Campuses for improved security and forwarding the School District green initiatives.

Project Name: Jail Security Enhancements
Requestor: Nye County
Location: Pahrump
Amount: $500,000
Description: Funds will be used to purchase security equipment, surveillance equipment, and communications equipment for use at Nye County's new jail in Pahrump, Nevada.

Project Name: Justice Information Sharing System
Requestor: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Location: Clark County
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: Las Vegas Metro Police Department, North Las Vegas Police Department, Henderson Police Department, Clark County District Attorney, District & Justice Courts, NV Department of Public Safety, & Las Vegas Detention & Enforcement, need additional funds to continue the replacement of a 40 year old Regional Justice Information Sharing System called SCOPE (Shared Computer Operation for Protection & Enforcement). The SCOPE system will allow criminal data sharing across agencies.

Project Name: Kids’ Court School: Child Victim Protection
Requestor: Boyd School of Law
Location: Clark County
Amount: $650,000
Description: Kids’ Court School protects children who are victims of abuse by preparing them to testify in court cases. The program educates children and youth about the judicial process using a standardized, empirically-based curriculum in order to maintain the integrity of the legal process; to conduct on-going research aimed at maximizing the capabilities of child witnesses; and to serve as a training program regarding the best practices for educating children and youth who are victims about the judicial process.  

Project Name: Lyon County Jail Project
Requestor: Lyon County
Location: Lyon County
Amount: $13,000,000
Description: The project will consist of a new, approximately 80,000 square feet, detention facility with a justice court. The new facility will replace the existing facility and will include housing for 160-256 inmates, administration and reception areas, patrol offices, sally port, booking area, medical, kitchen, laundry, commissary and storage.

Project Name: Major Crime Scene Response Vehicle
Requestor: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Location: Clark County
Amount: $700,000
Description: This vehicle will be used for deployment to all types of major crime incidents such as homicides, kidnappings, and sexual assault. It is equipped with portable alternate light sources, digging and excavating equipment, metal detectors, blood and bullet trajectory documentation tools, chemicals utilized to enhance fingerprints, blood enhancement chemicals, portable generators to power lights, and specialized crime scene equipment.

Project Name: Multi-jurisdictional Meth Enforcement Coalition
Requestor: Nevada Department of Public Safety
Location: Statewide
Amount: $500,000
Description: These funds will be used for the Investigation Division to support, equip, and operate multi-jurisdictional drug task forces around the state. The Nevada Department of Public Safety Investigation Division has primary jurisdiction in the state for drug enforcement and participates and/or supervises ten (10) drug task forces, representing fifteen of Nevada’s seventeen counties. Funds will be used statewide to investigate and enforce drug crimes in an effort to reduce demand and supply of illicit controlled substances, specifically Methamphetamine.

Project Name: Nevada Statewide Computer Aided Dispatch System
Requestor: Nevada Department of Public Safety
Location: Statewide
Amount: $500,000
Description: Local law enforcement agencies will be able to use the new statewide system, but only if interfaces are built between the CAD systems used by the local agencies and the system that the State selects. This funding would allow agencies that have those systems to engage their various vendors to develop interfaces from the local systems to the State CAD System.

Project Name: Prisoner Reentry Transitional Housing Project
Requestor: Las Vegas Urban League
Location: Las Vegas
Amount: $7,000,000
Description: Federal funds would directly help increase the success rate of ex-offenders in Southern Nevada by providing structured transitional housing to people attempting to remake their lives. There is no Parole and Probation-approved transitional housing for women in Las Vegas; for men it is limited. This problem is compounded by many ex-offenders lacking financial or family resources, and therefore lacking housing to transition to once eligible for parole.

Project Name: Prevention, Resource, Information and Drug Education (PRIDE) Project
Requestor: Chabad of Southern Nevada
Location: Clark County
Amount: $350,000
Description: Chabad of Southern Nevada is a nonprofit that serves at-risk youth with drug and alcohol prevention and crisis intervention services through its nonsectarian, educational and social services programs. In 1988, Chabad launched a prevention, resource, information and drug education (Project PRIDE) program that enables recovering addicts and trained counselors to visit area schools to talk about the dangers of substance abuse.

Project Name: Public Safety Improvements
Requestor: White Pine County
Location: Ely
Amount: $952,000
Description: The Public Safety Project will provide equipment and renovation to the White Pine Courthouse, which are necessary to protect the safety of judges, juries, officers of the court, and the public during jury trials, and meet health and safety needs for inmates, employees, and the public at the County Jail. The funds will be used to upgrade electrical systems to support electronic security and video conferencing equipment in the courthouse, and to provide new locks and doors for the jail.

Project Name: Radio Tower and Related Equipment
Requestor: City of North Las Vegas
Location: North Las Vegas
Amount: $810,000
Description: The tower and equipment will provide public safety radio communications within the Kapex/I 15/US 93 area. The project is necessary to insure effective and consistent communications among public safety personnel responding to and within the developing area. Current radio communications in the area are limited to very narrow areas of coverage leaving a majority of the area with inadequate radio signals. This tower will provide the essential tool to insure interoperability among the regional public safety agencies that respond to or around the area.

Project Name: Regional Interoperability Partnership
Requestor: Tahoe Regional Interoperability Partnership
Location: Lake Tahoe Basin
Amount: $4,000,000
Description: The Tahoe Regional Interoperability Partnership (“TRIP”) project will establish one of the nation’s first regional and bi-state backbone networks that will be maintained by user entities. It will allow radio system to interconnect using IP switching and digital gateways access technologies. This will allow radio communications, dispatch, and traffic management capabilities in Nevada, Northern California and Lake Tahoe Basin regions, which are necessary to protect and serve one of the nation’s largest and most diverse geographic areas.

Project Name: Regional Law Enforcement Training Facility
Requestor: Boulder City
Location: Clark County
Amount: $600,000
Description: The funds will be used to equip the following: three 50 yard patrol shooting ranges, two with 20 positions and one with 10 positions; SWAT training area with one 20 position, 50 yard shooting range and one 10 position 800 yard rifle range; Two tactile bays; Shooting and rappel tower; Shoot house; Pneumatic turning targets; Office and classroom buildings; Storage buildings; Bleachers and shade structures; New Emergency Vehicle Operator's Course (EVOC) track (will also keep existing EVOC track); Access roads; and Security fencing.

Project Name: Regional Public Safety Center: Shooting Range Ricochet Baffle System
Requestor: Washoe County
Location: Washoe County
Amount: $300,000
Description: The Washoe County Regional Public Safety Center Handgun Range is operated as the primary Public Safety (shooting) Facility in the Region. This project is designed to prevent ricochets from leaving the range surface by deflecting the rounds toward the ground and away from shooters by building "eyebrow" or ricochet baffles made of steel plates and angled sufficiently to prevent projectiles from leaving the range surface.

Project Name: Securing Nevada Citizen’s Personal Data
Requestor: Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles
Location: Statewide
Amount: $4,680,913
Description: These funds would be used to purchase a mainframe to be used exclusively by the Nevada DMV for processing and storing of all Nevada’s DMV data. This will allow the DMV to secure the data, enhance the systems, create enhancements to permit additional verification systems, and enable the Nevada DMV to be prepared for all additional verification systems that may be required in the future.

Project Name: Washoe County Police Equipment
Requestor: Washoe County Sheriff’s Office
Location: Washoe County
Amount: $818,000
Description: This money will be used to purchase an Armored Response Vehicle and fingerprinting and facial recognition systems. The vehicle will be used to deploy bomb, HazMat, and special weapons personnel, equipped to detect chemical, biological and radiological materials. The portable identification machines will allow direct interface with the state repository and Tiburon Database.  These systems will enhance law enforcement’s ability to quickly and accurately identify arrestees and reduce errors.

Project Name: Washoe Tribe’s Law Enforcement Department
Requestor: Washoe Tribe
Location: Gardnerville
Amount: $250,000
Description: To support law and order and protect the environment on Tribal lands while providing jobs and preserving the Tribe's cultural and natural resources. As an added benefit, the presence of law enforcement on tribal lands will deter attempts to make meth on rural lands and will protect wildlife from poaching.

Project Name: Western Nevada Coalition Collaborative for Substance Abuse Prevention
Requestor: Partnership of Community Resources
Location: Minden
Amount: $500,000
Description: These funds will be used to develop a media campaign and policy improvements to promote health and reduce illegal substance use. The program will target youth in grades 6-8 and their parents or guardians. Through a collaboration of 4 substance abuse nonprofits, these funds will serve all of rural Western Nevada.

Project Name: Young Families Program
Requestor: Olive Crest
Location: Clark County
Amount: $700,000
Description: Young Families provides a continuum of care for young families who struggle to survive in a difficult world. Immediate crisis support, coaching, and life skills training, builds family relationships and workforce success. Young Families focuses on a particularly vulnerable population. When young families are stabilized we prevent child abuse, domestic violence, and drug abuse. We increase educational achievement and decrease crime. The program will serve 150 families over a two year period.

Defense Appropriation Requests

Project: The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC)
Request: $30,000,000
Requestor: The Nevada Test Site (NTS)
Location: Nye County, NV
Description: Funding would support federally approved emergency responder training at the Nevada Test Site. NTS is one of four members of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (working jointly with the Center for Domestic Preparedness) which provide federally approved emergency responder training. This is an ongoing program included in the President's Budget.

Project: A Controllable Shock Absorber for Advanced Submarines' Weapons Shock Mitigation
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc.
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The goal of this project is to design, development and testing of a full-scale controllable shock mitigation device for the safety of the US Navy nuclear submarines. The development effort will take 24 months to conduct systems engineering/analysis, test fixture development, design/development of subscale test items and evaluation testing.

Project: Advanced Environmental Control System
Request: $ 4,000,000
Requestor:  Rocky Research
Location: Boulder City, NV
Description :  The project will develop energy efficient advanced control systems for thermal and energy management on board ships and land based platforms employing technology with a common platform for dual use in the Army, Navy, and Missile Defense. The effect will be a reduction in fuel and energy consumption while increasing operational reliability.

Project: Affordable Light-weight Composite (MMC) Armor
Request: $4,000,000
Requestor: MC-21, Inc.
Location: Carson City, NV
Description : Metal matrix composites (MMC) provides the military a solution for light, inexpensive armor that provides excellent ballistic performance. MMCs are to be used in multi-layer armor applications where aluminum will not work, and steel is too heavy.

Project: Airfield Mobility and logistic enhancement
Request: $ 7,728,000
Language:  No Bill Language
Requestor: 98th Range Wing
Location: Nellis AFB, NV
Description : This funds the Battlefield/Airspace network integration equipment required for the continued successful operations conducted by the 98th Range Wing. Equipment includes; Refueler Truck, 12-Ton Roller, Mud Hut Brick Maker, New Water Truck, Dolly Trailer, CAT CS563 Vibratory Soil Compactor, CB-534D Asphalt Compactor, Roller (Dual Drum), Rough Terrain Forklift, Asphalt Zipper (Reclaimer) AZ-500, End Dump Trailers, 15-Ton Dump Truck w/De-icing Equipment for TTRA, Road Grader All Wheel Drive, 4 X F350 w/Plow and Hopper, SUV 4X4 Explorer, 2009 Ford F-250 FX4 Crew Cab 8’ Bed, Cat 966H Front End Loader with 5cu yd Bucket, F-250 CC4X4, 90-Ton Rough Terrain Grove Crane, Slide Dump Truck (3 axel tractor/2 axle dump trailer), Oshkosh MTVR MK31 Tractor, 15- Ton Dump Truck w/plow and sander, JD 6X4 Diesel Gator (Snow Gator), F-650 Ford Truck with 20 ft cargo box (2010), Semi Tractor 6X4, 60 Ton OTR Trailer, Dergkamp Paver (Slurry Seal Trailer)

Project: Alternative Energy Propulsion for small UAV applications
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Scheelite Technologies
Location: Reno, NV
Description : Scheelite Technologies develops alternative energy propulsion system for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to extend their endurance above the conventional propulsion solutions without pollution and noise. Those will b used for surveillance and border protection.

Project: Army Tactical Asset Visibility
Request: $2,950,000
Requestor: MIS2000
Location: Hawthorne, NV,
Description : Mineral County Economic Development Authority (MCEDA) in cooperation with MIS 2000/Global Defense Electronics and UNLV will cost optimize a hybrid "Radio Frequency Identification System" to track ammunition sleds at the Hawthorne Western Ammunition Depot ( H.W.A.D) and other ammunition bases. . Furthermore the project will commercialize the technology to create jobs in Mineral County and Nevada.

Project: Autonomous Landing Guidance (ALG)
Request: $3,000,000
Description: The Committee is aware of the requirement for an Autonomous Landing Guidance (ALG) that will provide a safe and reliable visual system for aircrews to see through degraded visual environments and land safely. This will offer the ability to sustain air operations in the national Airspace system safely. The Committee recommends $3.0M to Army RDT&E;, Line 5, PE 0633003A BA7. O6303
Requestor: Sierra Nevada Corp.
Location: Sparks, NV

Project: Battlefield/Airspace network integration
Request: $ 1,504,000
Requestor: 98th Range Wing
Location: Nellis AFB, NV
Description : This funds the Battlefield/Airspace network integration equipment required for the continued successful operations conducted by the 98th Range Wing. Equipment includes Low Volume Terminal 2, Joint Range Extension, Training for LEGS and ARMS, Link antennas, Simulator/Amalgamated Remote managed Systems, Situation Awareness Data Link (SADL) XY, Low Volume Terminal Voice Cards, Associated Routers and Switches, PRC 117 Radio Filters Expand Coverage, Mt. Ella Power Upgrade, Microwave Encrypted Radios to tie into network node, Remote Generator Monitoring System.

Project: Big DIHMES Demil
Request: $ 3,500,000
Requestor:  Hawthorne Army Depot
Location: Hawthorne, NV
Description :  The budget request is insufficient to fund an economically and environmentally responsible demilitarization process at the Western Area Demilitarization Facility at the Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada for the demilitarization of large cast explosives munitions.

Project: CBU/CEM Demil
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Hawthorne Army Depot
Location: Hawthorne, NV
Description :  The budget request is insufficient to fund a safe and environmentally responsible recycling process at the Western Area Demilitarization Facility at the Hawthorne Army Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada for the demilitarization of several thousand tons of Cluster Bomb Units (CBUs), and Combined Effects Munitions (CEMs).

Project: CISRT Enabling Materials Technology
Request:  $3,000,000
Requestor: Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc.
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The objective is to develop new materials and designs technologies into relevant applications on submarine based launch/integration systems. Specifically, development of a practical reusable forward closure system utilizing advanced materials and novel design to secure payloads from salt water and sea pressure would be a significant technology enabler that would allow a wide variety of unmanned off board systems to be deployed.

Project: Contained Rocket Motor Burn
Request:  $2,000,000
Requestor: Hawthorne Army Depot
Location: Hawthorne, NV
Description : The budget request is insufficient to fund a safe and environmentally responsible demilitarization process at the Western Area Demilitarization Facility at the Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada for the demilitarization of the thousands of rocket motors, left in the stockpile.

Project: Containment Vehicle for the Suppression and Transport of Munitions and IED's
Request: $2,500,000
Requestor: Blast Containment, Inc.
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description : With the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military needs a lightweight, portable vehicle that can be used to transport high explosive munitions and IED's. This project is the final phase of a 3 phase project that will design, fabricate and test blast containment vessels that will be lightweight enough to be truck deployable, yet rugged enough to contain the blast from 100 pounds of TNT. The technology that will be utilized was developed and demonstrated by UNLV working with the DoE.

Project: Continuous Threat Alerting Sensing System (CTASS)
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Arcata Associates
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description : Continuous Threat Alerting Sensing System (CTASS) is a low cost and fully integrated system of unattended ground sensors using hardened field portable technology integrates both fixed and mobile sensor platforms with chemical, video, and tracking data. CTASS enables situational awareness for users in the field to make real time decisions and for command and control centers to monitor remote locations in a quick, reliable, and cost effective way.

Project: DC Air Conditioner Suitable for PV Solar Air Conditioning Using Novel VSD Technology and Commercial AC Compressors
Request: $3,800,000
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description :  Solar driven air conditioning is desirable as the need for energy from the grid or on-site generation engines or turbines is eliminated with environmentally-benign photovoltaic conversion of solar energy into electricity. The major hurdle towards practical implementation is the need to condition, for higher quality, the DC power generated by the PV-panels and the electric current demand profile adjustment from motors as used in air conditioner compressors.

Project: Distributed Common Ground System
Request:  $1,512,000
Requestor: Joint Force Headquarters
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The 152d Intelligence Squadron, Nevada Air National Guard, Reno, NV operates an Air Force Distributed Common Ground System. Begin the addition of manpower to the 152d Intelligence Squadron in FY11 and incrementally build 138 additional personnel through FY14

Project: Electronic Periscope Detection Radar (EPDR)
Request: $4,000,000
Requestor: Sierra Nevada Corp
Location: Sparks, NV
Description : The Navy has identified a need to detect submarine periscopes from the decks of these vessels. The Electronic Periscope Detection Radar (EPDR) will meet the size, functionality and affordability requirements that other developmental periscope detection radars -- the APS-137 radar and the SPS-74 radar – do not. The EPDR is a periscope detection radar that is suitable for installation on cruisers and destroyers.

Project: Emerging Infectious Diseases and Links to Desert Environments
Request:  $2,000,000
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The project focuses on diseases that have symptoms particularly relevant to the military and amenable to synthetic manipulation, i.e., neuro-immune diseases that have neurological and/or cognitive manifestations. This request will assess future threats through modeling and experimentation on small bacterial organisms and retroviruses

Project: Escalation of Force Non-Lethal Technology for Special Operations Forces
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Varian Medical Systems
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description : This is an escalation of force (EoF) initiative to assist in providing non-lethal technology enhancements to Special Operations Forces to enable them to engage and immobilize personnel, and vehicles, with minimal risk of significant injury/damage to the target(s). This project meets the requirements of a Commander, USSOCOM unfunded technology requirement.

Project: Gallium Nitride Materials for High Performance Devices
Request: $3,500,000
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description UNLV in conjunction with Kyma requests $4M in congressional support to continue its bulk gallium nitride (GaN) materials development effort and to develop next generation high performance electronic devices for a broad range of DoD and commercial applications.

Project: GEDAC Demonstrations
Request: $5,000,000
Requestor: Southwest Gas Corporation
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description : Building on success of the previous efforts, funds will further demonstrate 7.5 ton and 15 ton Gas heat pump systems including those with dark start capabilities, on military installations. Funds will also develop a prototype GHP system smaller than 7.5 tons with enhanced engine controls to exceed EPA emissions requirements while maximizing GHP engine efficiency and performance, while furthering R&D; to improve efficiency and lower first costs. The Army’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) will continue to manage.

Project: Global Military Operating Environments (GMOE)
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Desert Research Institute
Location: Reno, NV
Description This initiative will aid in understanding natural environments critical to execution of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) by linking assessment of natural environmental conditions in strategic areas with United States training and testing installations. Primary project sites will include all principal Army test centers and training center: Experimental sites for technology developed as part of this initiative will also be established in Reno and Boulder City at NSHE facilities.

Project: Heat Dissipation for Electronic Systems and Enclosures
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Rocky Research
Location: Boulder City, NV
Description : The project will develop heat dissipation systems for military electronic enclosures operating in harsh environments protecting electronic components sensitive to high ambient temperatures and adding reliability to Warfighter communications and sensor equipment.

Project: In-Field Body Temperature Conditioner
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: University of Nevada School of Medicine
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description : The In-Field Body Temperature Conditioner is a portable device to promote normothermic conditions in injured or ill patients in a remote location. The body warmer has of two elements: the heating/cooling module and the contact pads. The module comprises a vapor compression cooler/heat pump with variable speed drive and refrigerant flow control for variable capacity. The pad system comprises a heat exchanger, insulation and a contact surface. The module is designed to be of low weight.

Project: Land-able Airfield at the UOC (7,500’ landing strip)
Request: $ 3,000,000
Account: OMAFR
Requestor:  98th Range Wing
Location: Nellis AFB, NV
Description : The vision of Red Flag is to move the play of AFMC/SOF aircraft into the southern ranges so as not to interrupt the LFE vuls in the north. They'd like to have a landable airfield at the UOC to practice SOF insertion, combat landing etc.  There is a dirt strip at the UOC but it's not suitable for landing. This initiative is to get the UOC airfield up to speed to meet the needs of Red Flag and for more realistic training for AFMC (heave) aircraft.

Project: Lightweight Cannon Recoil Reduction (LCRR)
Request: $2,300,000
Requestor: Software and Engineering Associates, Inc.
Location: Carson City, NV
Description : Develop software to assist in the designing, development, and testing of the next generation lightweight cannons with reduced recoil, weight, wear, and erosion. Significantly reducing the cannon recoil, thermal load, and system weight using RAVEN breech venting and advanced muzzle brakes technologies will result in smaller, lighter, and more agile armament systems with the same lethality as current systems.

Project: Lung Cancer Screening Advanced Imaging Center
Request: $2,500,000
Requestor: Nevada Cancer Institute
Address (City, State) where major portion of the work is to be performed:, Las Vegas, NV
Description : The Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) proposes to establish and investigate a screening protocol for a unique population, including active duty military personnel, DOD employees, and retirees with a high risk of lung cancer, with advanced imaging to allow for early detection of bronchogenic carcinoma and enable institution of therapy with curative intent.

Project: Metals Affordability Initiative
Request: $ 10,000,000
Requestor: Timet
Location: Henderson, NV
Description The purpose of MAI is to maintain leadership in the strategic aerospace metals industrial sector by using technology innovation to maintain global competitiveness. MAI provides improved performance, increased affordability, and sustainability of weapons systems through.

Project: Mobile Aerosol Monitoring System for Department of Defense
Request: $1,200,000
Requestor:  Desert Research Institute
Location: Reno, NV
Description :  This project supports the design, building, and deployment of an instrumented mobile facility to investigate the effects of dust and air pollutants on respiratory health and battlefield operations at U.S. military bases in the Middle East and U.S.A. The goal of the proposed initiative is to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with time-resolved information that will allow them to assess the influence of enhanced dust concentrations on health and DoD operations in the Middle East and else.

Project: Multi-mode CWDM Optical Component Production Capability for Space and Avionics
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: OptiComp. Corp
Location: Zephyr Cove
Description : This program addresses the requirement for an upgraded optical module for the JSF F-35 platform.

Project: Multi-mode CWDM Optical Transceivers for Avionics
Request: $2,900,000
Requestor: OptiComp Corp.
Location: Zephyr, NV
Description : The technology OptiComp is proposing to manufacture under this Title III is multimode laser transceivers. These transceivers, and transceivers like them, provide high speed data links between critical systems and subsystems over short distances (i.e., < 10km.) Current development plans within the military and government agencies include deployment on space and avionic platforms.

Project: Navy Gun Ammo Demil
Request: $1,000,000
Requestor: Hawthorne Army Depot
Location: Hawthorne, NV
Description The budget request is insufficient to fund a safe and environmentally responsible recycling process at the Western Area Demilitarization Facility at the Hawthorne Army Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada for the demilitarization of thousands of rounds of obsolete Navy Gun Ammunition in the munitions stockpile.

Project: Navy Single Engine Cruise
Request: $5,000,000
Requestor: Altairnano, Inc.
Location: Reno, NV
Description : This project aims to develop a large format, high energy density, advanced lithium ion-based battery of 2.5 megawatts, with vastly improved environmentally sustainable characteristics and safety from fire/explosion that characterize other batteries. Such a battery would replace one of the three ship service generators normally in operation or in reserve aboard most surface combatants. Current operations require two units to operate at all times to provide backup power in case of failure.

Project: Nevada National Guard Counter Drug Program
Request:  $4,500,000
Requestor: Joint Force Headquarters
Location: Indian Springs, NV
Description : The Nevada National Guard Counterdrug Program requests an additional $4.5 million to fund current operational levels and supplement the equipment capabilities of the Nevada Integrated Imagery Network (NIIN) with personnel. This level of funding would ensure continued sustainment of the Nevada National Guard Counterdrug Program and allow for the integration of the NIIN into the fight against illegal narcotics.

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (120 M249 SAWs)
Request:  $321,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations. (DOD POC: Brigadier General William Burks 775-887-7296)

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (145 M9 Pistols)
Request:  $73,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations. (DOD POC: Brigadier General William Burks 775-887-7296)

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (60 M2 Machine Guns)
Request:  $55,580
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations. (DOD POC: Brigadier General William Burks 775-887-7296)

Project: Nevada National Guard Small and Light Arms (732 M4 Rifles)
Request:  $430,000
Requestor: Nevada National Guard
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The Army National Guard is short critical end-items to support Overseas Contingency Operations and Homeland Response missions; the NVARNG is no exception. The mobilization of ARNG units over the past five years has created a critical deficiency in modern equipment. Specifically, NVARNG left small and light arms in theater to support the national efforts against terrorism. This replenishment would allow NVARNG to return to authorized levels and prepare for future Homeland Response and overseas mobilizations. (DOD POC: Brigadier General William Burks 775-887-7296)

Project: Nevada Renewable Energy Innovation and Deployment Cluster- Base Security Optimization
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization (NIREC)
Location: Nellis AFB, Fallon Naval Air Station, and Hawthorn Army Depot
Description This project would create and grow two large-scale renewable energy industry “clusters”, one each in southern and northern Nevada resulting in significant near-term job creation. The project aims to launch a defense-wide initiative to address mission-related impediments to widespread deployment of renewable energy both within and in proximity to DOD bases in the U.S.

Project: Next Generation Casting Initiative
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: PCC Structurals
Location: Carson City, NV
Description : The defense of America depends on high technology to detect and deter potential aggression. An industry sector critical to America’s defense needs is the aerospace investment casting industry which primarily produces complex titanium and superalloy castings used in structures and rotating components of current and future aerospace weapon systems. Such Sophisticated weapons require complex production processes to assure reasonable cost, delivery and superior quality.

Project: Peer Reviewed Medical Research
Request: N/A
Suggested Recipient: Competitive.
Suggested Location of Performance (major portion of the work): TBD
Description : During your consideration of the Defense Appropriations Bill, I request that the following research programs be added to the Peer Reviewed Medical Research list: Tinnitus, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research, Mesothelioma, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Epilepsy, Interstitial Cystitis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Project: Quantitative Assessment of Blunt Trauma exposure and Potential Traumatic Brain injury in Professional Fighters
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description : The overall goal of this study is to determine the relationship between blunt trauma exposure and subsequent traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans. The study will enroll professional fighters (boxers and ultimate fighters) who are applying for a license through the Nevada Athletic Commission.

Project: Range Scrap Demil System (0)
Request: $1,500,000
Requestor: Hawthorne Army Depot
Location: Hawthorne, NV
Description :  The budget request is insufficient to fund a safe and environmentally responsible demilitarization process at the Western Area Demilitarization Facility at the Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada for the demilitarization of Range Scrap gathered from test and practice ranges.

Project: Readily Adaptive Camouflage Integrated with Fully electric All Terrain Vehicle (Eatv) and Mobile Solar Recharging Systems for Ground Operations
Request: $1,859,000
Requestor: 3D Armor Systems
Location: Reno, NV
Description : 3DAS will develop and produce integrated tactical mobility solutions for high threat, high risk environments. 3DAS will integrate adaptive camouflage and an electric powered ATV for improving special operations in military or law enforcement missions. The fully electric light-tactical All Terrain Vehicles (eATV) and Mobile Solar Recharging Systems can be deployed in multi-threat conditions within military, law enforcement, fire, and rescue agencies.

Project: Remote Piloted Aircraft (RPA)
Request:  $2,795,000
Requestor: Joint Force Headquarters
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The 232d Operations Squadron is a Total Force Integrated Associate unit at Creech AFB, Nevada. The existing 65 personnel from the Nevada Air National Guard stood up the Predator Formal Training Unit (FTU) to support the 432d Wing. Request an additional 67 permanent personnel authorizations to meet national efforts against terrorism.

Project: Scalable Field Deployable Solar Power Station
Request: $2,950,000
Requestor: MIS2000
Location: Hawthorne, NV
Description : Field Deployed Solar Power (FDSP) is a solution to the renewable energy source required by SOCOM for field operations. This energy source provides a solution to the problem of supplying fuel through difficult or non secure terrain. FDSP as a renewable power source can also  be a vital energy source for training purposes in the 250 Sq. Mile complex of Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD).

Project: Self Healing Target System for Fire Alarms Training Range Modernization
Request: $2,600,000
Requestor: Pierce Bullet Seal Target Systems
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description : Effective use of range time for firearms training is a critical DOD requirement, yet range operations remain unchanged since WW II. PBSTS has worked w/ DOD since ‘02 to develop 21st century target systems to replace current targets of lumber, cardboard, paper, staples, & plywood construction, which is labor & maintenance intensive, inefficient, expensive, environmentally wasteful, & puts users at injury risk. Current ranges are easily foiled by weather, which causes lost training time.

Project: Soldier-and-Civilian-Worn-Eye-Com™ Eye-and-Head-Tracking Biosensor, Communicator and Controller with Enhanced Biometrics and EEG Integration
Request: $ 5,000,000
Requestor: Eye-Com Corporation
Location: Reno, NV
Description This project continues FY05-10 R&D; and will deliver an eye- and head-tracking Biosensor Communication & Controller system with integrated oculometric, EEG and other biometric monitoring and detection capabilities. The wearable Biosensor will enable a unique Computer Brain Interface that will couple oculometric with neural sensory data that can evaluate and respond to alertness, vigilance and performance, in conditions such as fatigue, epilepsy, mTBI, PTSD, ADD/ADHD, autism, and other conditions.

Project: Spectral Area Receive/logging
Request: $225,000
Requestor: 98th Range Wing
Location: Nellis Air Force Base
Description : Enables identification and logging of all transmissions in a given spectrum. Logs the direction and frequency of received signals, and identifies counter-countermeasure jamming received by the MRECS system. Counter-Countermeasure data and signal identification data will be useful at mission debriefings.

Project: Terrorist Threat Detection System for Shipping Containers
Request: $3,000,000
Requestor: Nevada Nanotech Systems
Location: Reno, NV
Description : A set of advanced prototype C-Scout threat detection systems will be fabricated followed by extensive performance characterization in laboratory and field conditions against a broad set of threats. Threats to be evaluated include concealed military and homemade explosives, nuclear and dirty bombs, chemical warfare agents, biological warfare agents, humans, and contraband. Further performance characterization includes units installed in shipping containers and monitored during transport at sea.

Project: Thermal Coated Bombs
Request: $2,000,000
Requestor: Hawthorne Army Depot
Location: Hawthorne, NV
Description :  NAVAIR is requesting a safe and environmentally friendly recovery process for the  thermal coated alligator bombs at Renovation/Maintenance building 103-16, Hawthorne Army Depot for the recovery of thousands of bombs currently located in the Navy munitions stockpile

Project: Unmanned Aerial Platforms to Support First Responders During Local and National Disasters
Request: $ 1,977,000
Requestor:  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description :  Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized intelligence collection and the delivery of weapon systems in a combat environment. UAVs have saved numerous lives by putting fewer personnel at risk, while simultaneously expanding the capabilities of our military forces worldwide. As impressive as UAVs have been on the battlefield, these contributions will be dwarfed by their entry into the commercial and civil environments.

Project: UNR-Ultra High Efficiency Heat Pump for Cooling and Heating Using In-Rush Control via Variable Speed Operation and Pulsing Refrigerant Flow Control
Request: $ 3,800,000
Requestor:  University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Reno, Nevada
Description : This project will develop, test and qualify for military use an ultra high efficiency heat pump providing cooling and heating for War fighters in hot and cold climates, which in turn will increase combat readiness and War fighter efficiency.

Project: US Army Acquisition of NOS-45 Modular Crew Served Weapon Light (CSWL) System
Request: $4,000,000
Requestor: Night Operations Systems
Location: Reno, NV
Description : This request would provide acquisition funding for the NOS-45A Crew Served Weapon Light (CSWL) systems toward the Army's CSWL program requirement, to support Soldier/gunner safety and US Army night operations. NOS-45A systems illuminate targets beyond 1,000 meters, and are compact, lightweight, and can be handheld or mounted on all US Army crew-served weapon and vehicle platforms.

Project: USAFWC F-15C Total Force Initiative
Request: $3,255,000
Requestor: Joint Force Headquarters
Location: Reno, NV
Description : The USAFWC is facing a challenge in supporting requirements with F-15C/D aircraft. The USAFWC currently supports test and advanced training to the Combat Air Force. The current planned reduction in Primary Authorized Aircraft and associated maintenance manpower puts this test and training in jeopardy. The NVANG is seeking to provide additional manpower in order to ensure success in advanced Eagle test and training at Nellis AFB.

Project: Out-Patient Diabetic Education Project
Requestor: University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $300,000
Description: These funds would be used to establish a diabetic education project for patients referred from all points of services at UMC. Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects many of the disadvantaged populations served by UMC. Education and outreach can reduce the cases of hospitalization and improve the quality of health care for those affected.

Project: Nursing Development Program
Requestor: Renown Health
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: These funds would be used to develop the Renown Health Nursing Development Program to increase the number of nursing graduates from the local nursing schools, including the Orvis School of Nursing and the Truckee Meadow Community College. This proposal would expand the local nursing programs’ capacity to admit additional nursing students, which will result in additional graduates to help ease the nursing shortage in Nevada.

Project: Nye Regional Hospital
Requestor: Nye County, NV
Location: Tonopah, NV
Amount: $400,000
Description: These funds would be used to make facilities improvements, including the development of a designated decontamination area, to the Nye Regional Hospital in Tonopah, Nevada. The Nye Regional Hospital is located approximately two hundred miles from the nearest major hospital and trauma center and would play a key role in responding to any emergency or mass casualty event in the region.

Project: College of Optometry and Optometry Clinic
Requestor: Touro University Nevada
Location: Henderson, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: These funds would be used to construct and equip a College of Optometry, including an Optometry Clinic. There are currently no colleges of optometry in Nevada. The curriculum would focus on geriatric and rural issues. The associated clinic would serve approximately two hundred patients per week and provide necessary clinical training for optometry students.

Project: Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders Family Research and Service Clinic
Requestor: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: These funds would be used to develop a clinic for families to access services and to increase the capacity of professionals in the community through training. This will help to alleviate the long waiting period for appropriate diagnostic services and for early intervention services for children with autism spectrum disorders in Southern Nevada.

Project: Oral Health Program for Youth and Pregnant Women
Requestor: St. Mary’s Foundation for St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $300,000
Description: These funds would be used to reinitiate an oral health program that provides services to children and pregnant women. The program provides sealants for uninsured children in order to reduce their risk of developing cavities. It also provides oral health services to at-risk pregnant women in an effort to reduce low birth weight or preterm deliveries.

Project: Nurse Family Partnership
Requestor: Southern Nevada Health District
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $475,000
Description: These funds would support the Nurse Family Partnership, an evidence-based home visitation program providing services to low income, first-time mothers. This initiative is aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty and promoting the early health, development and well-being of low-income children and families with services that science and practice prove work.

Project: Community Immunization Project
Requestor: Southern Nevada Immunization Coalition
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: These funds would increase access and provide immunizations at no cost for approximately 40,000 families and adults in Clark County who do not have access to vaccinations through the major sources of public sector funding, including the Vaccines for Children program and the Section 317 program.

Project: Statewide Healthcare Help Line
Requestor: Access to Healthcare Network
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $330,000
Description: These funds would be used expand the Access to Healthcare Network’s Statewide Help Line. This service assists low income under and uninsured Nevada residents seeking information, application assistance and enrollment in the Access to Healthcare Network, Medicaid, Medicare, Nevada Checkup and social services available in each Nevada county (WIC, food banks, shelters, etc).

Project: Access to Pediatric Specialists
Requestor: Cure for the Kids Foundation
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: These funds would be used to purchase equipment for a visiting physician’s center that will provide Nevada children access to pediatric specialists. This center will help children with cancer and other complex medical conditions who would otherwise have to travel out-of state for appropriate care or access to the latest treatment protocols and clinical trials.

Project: Research and Clinical Outpatient Facility for Neuro-Immune Diseases
Requestor: Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $1 million
Description: These funds would be used to build and equip a comprehensive research and clinical outpatient facility at the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease. This facility would serve patients with neuro-immune diseases such as Myalgic Encephaloyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, atypical Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, autism and others.

Project: Pediatric Crohn’s Disease Center
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $400,000
Description: The Pediatric Crohn’s Disease Center will create a comprehensive program to offer a sub-specialty medical home that provides state-of-the art quality care for children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease.

Project: Prostate Cancer Education and Outreach
Requestor: Prostate Cancer Resource
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $100,000
Description: These funds would be used to continue and expand the only no-cost prostate cancer early prevention, education and community outreach program for the underserved population in Southern Nevada.

Project: Colorectal Cancer Screening
Requestor: Nevada Cancer Institute
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $750,000
Description: These funds would be used to purchase equipment to provide state-of -the-art colorectal cancer screening at the Nevada Cancer Institute. Nevada consistently ranks among the worst in the nation for colorectal cancer screening rates. Improved access to screening and early detection will help to prevent deaths from colorectal cancer.

Project: Henderson Hospice
Requestor: Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation
Location: Henderson, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: These funds would be used to construct a new facility in Henderson that offers palliative and end-of-life care. This new facility would help to alleviate the shortage of in-patient hospice facilities in Southern Nevada.

Project: Preparing Nevada’s Frontier Hospitals for Electronic Health Records and Exchange
Requestor: Nevada Rural Hospital Partners
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $650,000
Description: These funds would help Nevada’s smallest hospitals comply with requirements for electronic health records and health information exchange. These funds will create the underlying I.T. infrastructure necessary to support fail-safe electronic communication, data security and exchange.

Project: Las Vegas Senior Lifeline Program
Requestor: Jewish Federation of Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $400,000
Description: Funds would be used to support the Las Vegas Senior Lifeline Program which provides frail, lower-income seniors with resources to enable them to remain living independently in their own homes.

Project: Family Leadership Initiative
Requestor: Clark County School District
Location: Las Vegas, NV  
Amount: $300,000
Description: These funds would be used to expand the Family Leadership Initiative, which provides a parent training course to non-English speaking parents to teach them how to communicate with their child's school and advocate in the best interests of their children, to seven additional low-income schools. Parent involvement is essential in raising student achievement, and this program provides parents with the tools to better assist their children.

Project: School for the Highly Gifted
Requestor: Clark County School District
Location: Las Vegas, NV  
Amount: $825,000
Description: The Clark County School District, home to nearly three-quarters of the students in Nevada, will work, in partnership with the Nevada System of Higher Education, to create an academy for the highly gifted in grades 9-12. Nearly 200 students in the district have been identified as highly-gifted. Recognizing that gifted children learn differently, this project will be committed to providing an academically appropriate learning environment that is challenging and meaningful.

Project: Early Education Program
Requestor: Lyon County School District
Location: Yerington, NV  
Amount: $150,000
Description: Early education provides many students the important foundation they will need to be successful in school. These funds would be used to provide early education services to children in Fernley, Silver Springs, and Yerington, as well as children from the Yerington and Walker River Paiute Indian Tribes.

Project: Mathematics Textbooks and Curriculum Specialists
Requestor: Nye County School District
Location: Pahrump, NV  
Amount: $500,000
Description: These funds would be used to support the purchase of K-12 math textbooks for students across the district, as well as instructional specialists to provide professional development and student intervention in math at district’s lowest-performing schools.

Project: Success First Program
Requestor: Truckee Meadows Community College
Location: Reno, NV  
Amount: $450,000
Description: These funds would be used for recruitment activities, mentoring, and tutoring programs for first generation, low-income high school seniors that continue their education at Truckee Meadows Community College, and to provide supportive services throughout their time at the college.

Project: STEM Curriculum and Technology Improvements
Requestor: Churchill County School District
Location: Fallon, NV  
Amount: $25,000
Description: These funds would purchase new technology and curriculum for the district’s high school STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) program and would benefit all students in the district. Already, over ninety percent of the project funding has been secured.

Project: Green Jobs Resource Center
Requestor: Envirolution
Location: Reno, NV  
Amount: $400,000
Description: These funds will help establish a Green Jobs Resource Center, which will increase education, awareness, and preparedness for “green” jobs across Nevada. The center will have three components: a physical resource center located in Reno, an informational website, and a mobile green bus that can service the rural communities and travel to schools.

Project: Expansion of Online Courses
Requestor: College of Southern Nevada
Location: Las Vegas, NV  
Amount: $750,000
Description: As state support for higher education continues to be cut, students at Nevada’s largest community college face the prospect of reduced and limited class offerings. These funds would help expand the number of online courses in education and training programs, and allow students to get the classes they need in order to complete their degree. More than 43,000 students will have greater access to online courses as a result of these funds.

Project: Weatherization Training Program
Requestor: Easter Seals of Southern Nevada
Location: Las Vegas, NV  
Amount: $500,000
Description: As a result of the Recovery Act, there are increased job opportunities in weatherizing homes and making more buildings energy efficient. These funds would help provide employment and weatherization training, job search, job development, employment counseling, job coaching for dislocated and hard-to-employ individuals.

Project: Jobs for the Next Decade
Requestor: Great Basin College
Location: Elko, NV  
Amount: $600,000
Description: The Bureau of Labor Statistics has identified the fastest growing occupations in the coming decade, which include information technology, health care, and education. There is a great need for qualified employees in these fields across rural Nevada. Great Basin College would use these funds to support academic and career and technical education in these high-need fields.

Project: Services for Children with Disabilities
Requestor: Nevada PEP (Parents Educating Parents)
Location: Elko, NV  
Amount: $250,000
Description: Parent involvement is essential in raising student achievement, and this program provides parents with the tools to better assist their children. These funds would help expand services for parents in counties statewide for parents of students with disabilities about positive behavior interventions and the Nevada law regulating such methods.

Project: Rural Counties Respite Care Program
Requestor: Nevada Rural Counties RSVP Program
Location: Carson City, Nevada
Amount: $150,000
Description: The Rural Counties Respite Care Program addresses a critical need in the community -- that of free or affordable, non-medical in-home respite care for those suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s, and a host of other ailments and disorders. The senior population in Nevada is among the fastest growing in the nation, so the number of caregivers and the demand for this program continues to increase. This community service program supports caregivers, and in turn, helps to prevent the institutionalization of their loved ones.

Project: Washoe County School District Graduation Initiative
Requestor: Washoe County School District
Location: Reno, Nevada
Amount: $900,000
Description: Nevada has one of the highest dropout rates in the nation, with less than 70% of all high school students graduating on time. This funding would support additional education professionals to focus on keeping at-risk high school freshmen and other at-risk high school student populations engaged and in school.

Project: Afterschool Programs
Requestor: Lincoln County School District
Location: Panaca, Nevada
Amount: $50,000
Description: Multiple years of state budget cuts have decimated early education and afterschool programs across Nevada. These funds will help restore afterschool programs for at-risk students in the district.

Project: Technology Enhancements
Requestor: Lander County School District
Location: Battle Mountain, Nevada
Amount: $150,000
Description: These funds will help purchase software, hardware, electronic and other equipment needed to upgrade the antiquated student computer system and to modernize career and technical education facilities.

Project: Expansion of Online Courses
Requestor: Nevada State College
Location: Henderson, NV  
Amount: $500,000
Description: As state support for higher education continues to be cut, students at Nevada State College face the prospect of reduced and limited class offerings. These funds would help expand the number of online courses and allow students to get the classes they need in order to complete their degree.

Project: Improving Distance Education
Requestor: Elko County School District
Location: Elko, Nevada
Amount: $300,000
Description: The Elko County School District, which covers the entire 17,203 square miles of Elko County, is one of the largest school districts by area in the United States. The funds will be used for technology upgrades to enhance distance education capabilities, including mobile computer labs, projectors, and SMART Interactive Teaching white boards, for schools across the county.

Project: Job Training Program
Requestor: Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Amount: $300,000
Description: These funds would help expand the “Self Sufficiency Program,” which moves unemployed and underemployed people into jobs and financial stability by providing individual assessments to determine abilities, interests and aptitude, and employment goals, and provide mentoring for vocational training and job preparation.

Project: Technology-Based Instruction Program
Requestor: Humboldt County School District
Location: Winnemucca, Nevada
Amount: $175,000
Description: These funds would help expand tech-based instruction, including remediation and accelerated curriculum, and allow all students in the district to have access to 150 state-approved courses.

Project: Afterschool Tutoring Program
Requestor: Education Alliance of Washoe County
Location: Reno, Nevada
Amount: $150,000
Description: These funds would provide afterschool tutoring support in ten elementary schools that do not receive federal Title 1 funds but are Title I-eligible. Tutoring support will be provided to all Washoe County School District secondary students in all core content areas.

Project: Teacher Exchange Program
Requestor: Public Education Foundation of Clark County
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Amount: $100,000
Description: With multiple years of state budget cuts, teachers across Nevada are forced to purchase more classroom and instructional materials out of their own pockets. These funds would help create an innovative “teacher exchange,” to provide a clearinghouse for donations, classroom materials and supplies for educators across Clark County.

Project: PLUS Job Training Program
Requestor: Las Vegas-Clark County Urban League
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Amount: $500,000
Description: These funds would be used to expand the Program for Life and Urban Skills (PLUS) Program, which provides unemployed and underemployed individuals with job development, workforce readiness skills, career enhancement training, and job placement assistance. Nevada continues to have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and is in desperate need of additional job training programs.

Project: Coordination of Statewide Nursing Curriculum
Requestor: College of Southern Nevada
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Amount: $75,000
Description: Nevada continues to face a shortage of nurses. Funds would be used to align the nursing curriculum in all of Nevada’s colleges and universities to streamline the transition from RN to BSN programs. These funds will quantify Nevada's nursing and technological training needs, which will be incorporated into each school's curriculum to ensure that any Nevada nursing graduate can work anywhere in the state.

Project: Employment Training Program
Requestor: Expertise, Inc.
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Nevada continues to have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation and is in desperate need of additional job training programs. These funds would be used to support job training in high-demand professions.

Project: Statewide School Construction and Modernization Matching Grants
Location: School Districts Statewide
Amount: $5 million
Description: Senator Reid requested funding to create a grant program for school districts across Nevada. Districts would be able to apply for matching funds to support new construction, renovation or modernization of school facilities. While large urban districts around the country downsize and close school facilities, Nevada’s largest school districts continue to grow. While the pace of growth has slowed in the last year, securing funding for school construction remains a challenge. Nevada’s vast rural school districts face a different challenge – finding funding to renovate and modernize their aging facilities. These funds will allow districts to use scarce resources to improve instruction, rather than on construction and facility improvement.

Project: Career Connections Job Training Program
Requestor: Goodwill of Southern Nevada
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $250,000
Description: Goodwill operates two Career Connections centers to offer assistance to job seekers including career counseling and resume services.  Because of the economic downturn, Goodwill does not have adequate resources to serve the number of individuals seeking help.  Funding will expand the career service offerings at Goodwill so that they can help put more people back to work.

Roads and Highways
Building Infrastructure and Increasing Capacity on Nevada’s Roads and Highways

Project: Southern Nevada Beltway Interchanges
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: Federal funding will supplement a 20 percent state match to construct additional interchanges to improve mobility on the Clark County Beltway. The Clark County Beltway is one of the busiest roads in Nevada, and funding will expand capacity. Last year, Senator Reid and Senator Ensign secured $2,850,000 for this project.

Project: Starr Road Interchange
Requestor: City of Henderson
Location: Henderson, NV
Amount: $2,000,0000
Description: Constructing an interchange at I-15 and Starr Road will improve access to a growing part of Henderson and relieve congestion on Eastern Avenue and other approaches to McCarran International Airport. Funding will be used for construction, and will supplement the $1,187,500 Senator Reid secured for this project in FY2009.

Project: Carson City Freeway Phase II
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: The project will improve capacity by adding 3 miles of controlled access freeway from Fairview Drive to the southern connection at the existing US 50 West - Tahoe Juncture / Carson Street intersection. Expanding the freeway will relieve traffic congestion in addition to offering flood control protection. It is estimated that this project will create 150 jobs locally.

Project: Expanding SR-160 Las Vegas to Pahrump
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: This roadway is the major connection between the growing bedroom community of Pahrump and the metropolitan core of Las Vegas, NV. Unfortunately, this two-lane road is one of the most deadly in the state. Funding would pay for increased widening that would reduce congestion and improve safety. Senators Reid and Ensign secured $2,612,500 for this project last year.

Project: Pyramid Highway Corridor
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: Pyramid Highway (SR-445) is one of the most congested corridors in Northern Nevada, particularly at the intersection of SR-445 and McCarran Blvd. Funding would pay for environmental studies and project development improvements to increase capacity and reduce congestion within the corridor.

Project: I-15 Corridor of the Future
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $1,250,000
Description: Because the US Department of Transportation designed I-15 as a “Corridor of the Future,” this interstate is eligible to participate in new federal programs to reduce congestion. Federal funding would supplement these efforts. More than 9 million people drive from Southern California to Las Vegas on I-15, and making road improvements protects the main routes for tourists to enter Las Vegas.

Project: US-395 from Moana to Stead
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: This project would widen the Northbound lanes on US-395 and relieve heavy peak hour congestion and related crashes. Widening would substantially reduce Northbound travel time in peak hour from Moana to I-80 saving time for thousands of Nevadans each day. This project is estimated to create 150 jobs locally.

Project: US 50 Stateline Realignment
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: The Lake Tahoe basin is an area of regional and national significance, but congestion around the Nevada casinos reduces mobility in the area. Funding would pay to provide operational improvements and pedestrian and transit improvements in the heavily congested Stateline corridor.

Project: I-80 Corridors of the Future
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: As the main interstate through Northern Nevada, I-80 continues to have severe congestion problems. Funding would support an unbiased modal investment study that brings all stakeholders into the process to identify the most cost-effective investments for the Interstate-80 corridor.

Project: Boulder City Bypass
Requestor: City of Boulder City
Location: Boulder City, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: According to published estimates, an additional 2000-2500 trucks will drive through Boulder City once the new Hoover Dam bridge is completed in 2010. A 17 mile bypass road will alleviate congestion and remove truck traffic from downtown Boulder City.

Project: Nevada Pacific Parkway
Requestor: City of Fernley
Location: Fernley, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: Funding will pay for the construction of an additional four lane roadway connecting I-80 Exit 50 Interchange to US50A at Nevada Pacific Parkway in the eastern portion of Fernley. The expansion will be necessary for future growth in the Fernley region.

Project: Freeways and Arterial System of Transportation (FAST)
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: To help facilitate traffic movement and relieve congestion on the Clark County Beltway, NDOT plans to install a fiber-optic cable vehicle detection system with video monitoring cameras, ramp meters and dynamic message signs.

Project: Caliente Bridge Replacement
Requestor: City of Caliente
Location: Caliente, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: The bridge over the Clover Creek leading to the Caliente Youth Center routinely floods because of silt build up in culverts. The Youth Center is a $50 million state facility. During a flood in 2005, the NV National Guard was forced to rescue 140 children and 20 staff members who were isolated by the rising water.

Project: Transportation Engineering Research
Requestor: University of Nevada, Reno
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $300,000
Description: In partnership with NDOT and RTC-Washoe, UNR will expand a state-of-the-art Traffic System Control Laboratory equipped with advanced signal control devices and modern computer simulation techniques. Modeling and control systems can reduce congestion and improve traffic flow.

Project: Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program (EIP)
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Lake Tahoe
Amount: $500,000
Description: NDOT will implement a Water Quality EIP project with a focus on improving stormwater management along the state and US highways of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Storm water runoff has been associated in the past with clarity loss in this environmentally sensitive area.

Project: Multimodal Corridor Study
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Nye County
Description: Funds would be used to conduct a study of a multimodal corridor between Pahrump, NV and the proposed Ivanpah Airport. The study would address transportation needs in the county, including the development of a highway that connects Pahrump to Interstate 15.

Project: North 5th Street Arterial
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: N. Las Vegas, NV
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Southern NV
Description: Funding will continue the construction of a much-needed eight lane super-arterial with bus rapid transit lanes that will connect downtown Las Vegas with North Las Vegas. The project will also provide bus rapid transit lanes for the RTC's ACE Rapid Transit System.

Project: Exit 120 Reconstruction
Amount: $1,500,000
Location: Mesquite, NV
Requestor: City of Mesquite
Description: This project would fund the reconstruction of Exit 120 on I-15 near Mesquite, NV. The overpass needs to be widened from two to four lanes to increase capacity and improve safety.

Project: Northern Nevada Traffic Management
Amount: $750,000
Location: Northern Nevada
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
Description: This project will result in a collaborative traffic and emergency management system for regional partners, including traffic flow detectors, dynamic message signs, and other traffic monitoring systems. Such a system will improve mobility and reduce congestion.

Project: Cactus Interchange
Amount: $750,000
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Southern NV
Description: Funding will help construct an additional interchange on I-15 in a growing part of the southwest Las Vegas Valley. There are only three interchanges in a six mile stretch of I-15, and this project will reduce congestion in the area.

Project: N. Las Vegas Blvd. Improvement Project
Amount: $750,000
Location: N. Las Vegas, NV
Requestor: City of N. Las Vegas
Description: This project would make roadway improvements between Lake Mead and Carey Avenue. It would include dedicated bus and bicycle lanes to improve safety in the corridor.

Project: I-15/US-93 Interchange Improvements
Amount: $500,000
Location: Southern NV
Requestor: Lincoln County
Description: This request is to fund needed upgrades and improvements to the I-15/US 93 interchange. The traffic growth projected at this interchange cannot be accommodated by the current interchange design and requires major improvements in phases as traffic demand grows.

Project: Silver Lace Railroad Crossing
Amount: $500,000
Location: Fernley, NV
Requestor: City of Fernley
Description: Funding would help construct an at-grade railroad crossing to improve emergency response time for law enforcement and public safety officers. This crossing would also improve connectivity between east and west sides of Fernley.

Airport Construction
Improving Safety and Expanding Infrastructure

Project: Reno Stead Emergency Operations Center
Requestor: Reno-Tahoe International Airport
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: The project will serve to replace the current 1940-era administrative office with a functional terminal to accommodate the growing aviation community at the airport including the National Guard. The new building will also serve as the command center during emergency operations and house a police substation to increase security at the airport.

Project: Las Vegas Valley Navigation Equipment
Requestor: McCarran International Airport
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: This project would fund communications and navigation equipment for the Clark County Department of Aviation. Federal funds would be used to acquire, install and certify additional RADIO Repeater equipment to provide additional capability to the Las Vegas Valley airspace.

Project: Air Cargo Aircraft Parking Apron
Requestor: Reno-Tahoe International Airport
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: Funding will begin the design work for a new air cargo parking apron to be constructed at the Southwest quadrant of the RNO airport. Existing cargo facilities are at capacity and cannot be expanded in their present location.

Mass Transportation
Clearing our Air and Reducing Congestion

Project: ACE Boulder Highway Rapid Transit Project
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Location: Boulder City, NV
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: This transit project will be comprised of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system operating along a 17-mile corridor with exclusive transit lanes, vehicles, stations, and related infrastructure. The specific segment would travel Boulder Highway from the Central City Intermodal Transportation Terminal to Horizon Drive in Henderson, Nevada.

Project: Statewide 5309 Bus Mark
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Nevada Statewide
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: Funding will support capital facility improvements at transit stations throughout Nevada. Any allocation of funds will be made by consensus of the regional metropolitan planning organizations and NDOT.

Project: Washoe County Bus and Bus Facility
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
Location: Reno, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: This project involves the construction of satellite transfer centers and additional Park and Ride facilities to expand the ridership of the RTC bus system. Additional funds will replace aging buses in the fleet with cleaner fuel technologies.

Project: Tahoe Bus and Bus Facilities
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Lake Tahoe and surrounding communities in Nevada
Amount: $500,000
Description: Funding would replace eight buses operated by the South Tahoe Area Transit Authority that have outlived their useful life. Replacement of these buses with environmentally friendly compressed natural gas or bio diesel fueled buses would improve air and water quality in the region.

Project: CAMPO Bus and Bus Facilities
Requestor: Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
Location: Carson City, NV
Amount: $500,000
Description: This project involves the purchase of vehicles and related equipment in accordance with the fleet replacement schedule. Funding will also make improvements to bus stops and transit centers.

Project: Lake Tahoe Ferry
Requestor: Tahoe Transportation District
Location: Lake Tahoe
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: This project will develop a Bi-State Lake Tahoe Passenger Ferry System utilizing alternative fuel/green technology high speed vessels. The ferry is part of a multi-modal transit system for resident and visitor population to Lake Tahoe. Public Law 96-551 requires the planning entities at Lake Tahoe to reduce the use and reliance on the automobile for mobility in the Tahoe Basin.

Project: Bus Turnouts for Downtown Las Vegas
Requestor: City of Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas
Amount: $750,000
Description: The City plans to construct bus turnouts on Decatur Blvd., E. Charleston Blvd., Lamb Blvd., and Pecos Road. Bus turnouts will reduce traffic congestion due to blocked transit lanes from stopped buses. Moreover, they will improve safety by reducing the risk that a vehicle will hit a parked bus or a passenger.

Project: ACE Sahara Bus Rapid Transit
Requestor: Regional Transportation Commission of Southern NV
Location: Las Vegas
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: This project will provide funding for 12 miles of bus rapid transit system on Sahara Ave from Hualapai Way to Boulder Highway. Sahara Avenue is one of the densest corridors in the Las Vegas Valley with large commercial and residential developments. Funding will supplement more than $34.4 million in federal stimulus funding recently awarded to this project.

Project: Senior Bus Acquisition
Requestor: Southern Nevada Transit Coalition
Location: Laughlin, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: The Southern Nevada Transit Coalition (SNTC) is a nonprofit organization that provides senior, para transit, medical, and public transportation in eleven southern Nevada rural communities. Funding would provide for the purchase of additional buses to replace an aging van with more accessible vehicles for the elderly and disabled.

Project: Intermountain Transportation Study
Requestor: Western High Speed Rail Alliance
Location: Southern NV
Amount: $2,000,000
Description: This project will conduct a feasibility study of a network of high speed rail corridors between metropolitan areas of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. As the federal government invests billions of new dollars in high speed rail and continues major investments in airports and highways, policy makers need to have comprehensive information which guides the selection of viable multi-modal transportation corridors outside of the Northeast.

Economic Development Initiatives (Housing and Urban Development)
Preventing Foreclosure, Improving Affordable Housing, and Meeting Community Needs

Project: Senior Affordable Living Center
Requestor: City of Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $2,000,000
Summary: There is a growing need for affordable senior housing in Southern Nevada. This project would construct 461 units of senior housing as part of a mixed use project in a blighted area. Once completed, this project will house over 900 people at 60% below median income.

Project: Stabilizing Nevada Neighborhoods
Requestor: Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Nevada
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $500,000
Summary: Hundreds of foreclosed homes throughout Southern Nevada sit empty and blight neighborhoods. Consumer Credit Counseling Service plans to turn many of these foreclosed properties into long-term affordable rental properties that will be sold to low and moderate income families.

Project: Storey County Youth and Community Resource Center
Requestor: Community Chest of Storey County
Location: Virginia City, NV
Amount: $500,000
Summary: Storey County currently does not have a community center, childcare center, youth program facilities, or public gathering sites. With the support of the local government, Community Chest and other volunteer organizations have been working for 13 years to design and construct a community resource center. Local residents will supplement any federal support with additional donations and grants.

Project: Foreclosure Prevention and Intervention Partnership Program
Requestor: City of Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $200,000
Summary: The City of Las Vegas will continue their housing outreach and foreclosure prevention education efforts. The City will offer mortgage modification assistance to homeowners in addition to helping transition families who can no longer afford their mortgage into affordable rental housing.

Project: Larry D. Johnson Community Center
Requestor: City of Sparks
Location: Sparks, NV
Amount: $200,000
Summary: The Johnson Community Center serves the West End of Sparks, which is a neighborhood with the some of the lowest income households and at-risk children in the city. The funding will assist in expanding the center to serve more at-risk youth.

Project: Pahrump Senior Center
Requestor: Nye County
Location: Pahrump, NV
Amount: $200,000
Summary: Funds would be used to develop a senior center in Pahrump, NV to provide services and support to local seniors. Pahrump's current senior center serves approximately 120 meals per day, along with Meals on Wheels providing an additional 25 meal per day. This center is at maximum capacity.

Project: Old Fire House Restoration
Requestor: Town of Genoa
Location: Genoa, NV
Amount: $300,000
Summary: The Genoa Firehouse is a historic structure that has housed the Town’s Volunteer Fire Department until the 1970s. It also serves as a public meeting place for local residents. Funding would help renovate the building including repairing a leaking roof, improving safety, and providing access to individuals with disabilities.

Project: Long Term Care Facility
Requestor: Lincoln County
Location: Caliente, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Funding would construct a long term care facility to serve aging residents of Lincoln County, the majority of whom need to be cared for outside of the County at this time. The over 65 population in Lincoln County is higher than the State average, and many need care which can take place closer to home with a local facility.

Project: Crisis Assistance, Referrals, and Emergency Service
Requestor: Chabad of Southern NV
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Chabad is a nonprofit organization that operations numerous non-sectarian senior, low-to-moderate income and special needs programs. This project would establish a one-stop crisis assistance, referrals, and emergency food and social services center that will be created through the renovation of a commercial-grade kitchen at the current facility. The center will allow youth and families in crisis to access needed services through an integrated approach.

Project: Union Pacific Railroad Depot Restoration
Requestor: City of Caliente
Location: Caliente, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Funding would restore a historic railroad structure built in 1923. This building presently serves as the City Hall for Caliente, in addition to providing public meeting space. Funding would reinforce columns and repair damage to the roof in order to improve public safety.

Project: Sparks Rail Yard Relocation Study
Requestor: City of Sparks
Location: Sparks, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Under the Federal Railroad Relocation Program, this project explores the feasibility of relocating the Union Pacific Rail Yard from a busy, congested downtown site to a more remote, less congested site. Relocating the rail yard has the potential to pave the way for further economic development in the area.

Project: V&T; Train Depot
Requestor: Storey County
Location: Virginia City, NV
Amount: $200,000
Description: Funding would provide for the purchase of the historic Virginia and Truckee Train Depot located in the heart of Virginia City. With the expansion of the V&T; railroad, Storey County officials want to bring the train to its historic terminus.

This page will be updated as additional requests for Nevada are made pursuant to Committee deadlines.

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