Project Title: City of Lacey Regional Reclaimed
Water Project
Recipient: City of Lacey
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Lacey, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to construct the Woodland Creek Regional Reclaimed Water Facility, which would transport reclaimed water from the new Lacey satellite wastewater treatment plant to an infiltration site adjacent to Woodland Creek.
Importance: The project would utilize reclaimed water to stabilize stream flows, improve fish habitat and preserve access to drinking water for the region’s growing population.
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Project Title: City of Puyallup Wastewater
Infrastructure Project
Recipient: City of Puyallup
Amount: $900,000
Location: Puyallup, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the city to add two new pumps and upgrade the force main at the city’s sanitary sewer pump station.
Importance: This project will increase public health and safety by ensuring reliability at the city’s largest sewer lift station, and would allow for future residential, commercial, and
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Project Title: City of Union Gap Water
Transmission Main Project
Recipient: City of Union Gap
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Union Gap, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to replace old, deteriorated, and undersized water mains in Union Gap, WA.
Importance: These upgrades would ensure a stable water supply, correct fire flow capacity deficiencies, and allow the Valley Mall area to continue growing and expanding, thus bringing significant economic development to the area.
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Project Name: Consortium for Plant
Biotechnology Research
Recipient: Consortium for Plant
Biotechnology Research, Inc.
Amount: $1,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This funding would support research through the Consortium, which supports biotechnology and renewable energy research, and the transfer of technologies from academic research to the marketplace.
Importance: The commercialization of academic research findings has the potential to improve the competitiveness of U.S. agriculture and forestry, and develop new renewable energy industries. The Consortium would have a direct impact on Washington state by creating jobs as products come to the marketplace and by aiding the agriculture and forestry industries become more competitive.
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Project Title: Cowlitz PUD Water System Pump
Station Upgrades
Recipient: Public Utility District
#1 of Cowlitz County, WA
Amount: $441,100
Location: Kelso, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to replace two aging and deteriorated pump stations and upgrade the water supply system serving Cowlitz County residents.
Importance: This project would improve public health and safety by ensuring the continuation of water supply service to customers, providing adequate fire flows at all locations within the zone, and creating construction jobs for the upgrades.
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Project Title: Lake Roosevelt Management and
Enforcement
Recipient: Spokane Tribe of Indians
and the Colville Tribe
Amount: $630,000
Location: Stevens, Lincoln, Ferry
Counties
Purpose: This funding would be used to enable both the Spokane Tribe of Indians and the Colville Tribe to employ law enforcement officers to patrol Lake Roosevelt and its shoreline to enforce federal laws as well as tribal health and safety laws.
Importance: These funds would play a direct role in maintaining public safety while ensuring safe and secure access to the Grand Coulee Dam and Lake Roosevelt.
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Project Name: Legacy Roads and Trails
Remediation Program
Recipient: United States Forest
Service
Amount: $70,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This funding would be used to address the problem of deteriorating, unmaintained Forest Service roads that contribute to the backlog of maintenance needs.
Importance: In addition to increased watershed health and resiliency, millions of taxpayer dollars will be saved over the long-term by reducing maintenance and mitigation costs by reducing the overall road infrastructure on Forest Service lands.
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Project Title: Lower Columbia River Toxics
Reduction and Pollution Abatement
Recipient: Lower Columbia River
Estuary Partnership
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: SW Washington and NW
Oregon
Purpose: This funding would be used to implement pollution abatement projects aimed at reducing toxic pollutants in water, sediment, wildlife, and fish along the lower 146 miles of the Columbia River.
Importance: Continued efforts to reduce toxics and pollution in the lower Columbia River and to restore ecosystem health would benefit recovery of the commercial fishing industry, assist with salmon recovery efforts, and contribute to the economies of local communities.
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Project Title: Monitoring and Detection for
Zebra Mussels and Other Aquatic Invasive Species in the Columbia River
Basin
Recipient: Washington State University
Amount: $750,000
Location: Pullman, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to expand current capabilities to detect aquatic invasive species, including zebra mussels, in the Columbia River Basin.
Importance: Monitoring and early detection is essential for preventing an invasion of zebra mussels or other invasive species into the Columbia River Basin, which would have extensive negative ecological and economic impacts to the area.
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Project Name: National Estuary Program
Recipient: National Estuary
Program (28 NEPs nationwide)
Amount: $27,200,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This is a programmatic increase request that would be used to continue support for the National Estuary Program (NEP) which protects nationally significant estuaries by bringing together diverse parties to identify problems, define actions to address these problems, and implement these actions.
Importance: In addition to other National Estuary Programs nationwide, funding will support the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership, which works to restore conditions on the Lower Columbia River through habitat restoration, toxics reduction, and environmental education projects.
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Project Title: North Cascades Grizzly Bear
Recovery Plan
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service
Amount: $200,000
Location: North Cascades Grizzly
Bear Recovery zone (Northwest Washington)
Purpose: This funding would be used to complete an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to implement actions identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife in the North Cascades grizzly bear recovery plan framework.
Importance: The North Cascades is one of only six grizzly bear recovery zones, and the only one located outside of the Rocky Mountains. Implementation of a recovery plan is necessary to help prevent the dwindling North Cascades grizzly bear from disappearing all together.
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Project Title: Pacific Crest Trail
Recipient: United States Forest
Service
Amount: $2,000,000
Location: Wenatchee and Mt.
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests
Purpose: This funding would allow the Forest Service to acquire the Missing Link parcel, for conservation purposes.
Importance: Acquisition of the Missing Link parcel would increase ecological benefits, reduce land management complexities, and ensure the continued recreation use of the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Project Title: Puget Sound Ecosystem Research
Initiative
Recipient: University of Washington
Amount: $2,130,000
Location: Seattle, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used toward creation of the Puget Sound Ecosystem Research Initiative, which would provide a forum for top research scientists to contribute to and engage in the work of the Puget Sound Partnership.
Importance: This Initiative would advance the work of the Puget Sound Partnership to restore and protect the Puget Sound ecosystem and ensure implementation of the Partnership’s Action Agenda, which would allow for continued efforts to clean up Puget Sound and protect economic development in the area.
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Project Title: Regional Climate Change
Impacts Center on Coastal Ecosystems
Recipient: Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
Amount: $5,000,000
Location: Sequim, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to establish a research partnership between the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 office and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory aimed at understanding the effects of climate change on the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of the Pacific Northwest’s coastal environments.
Importance: Climate change will have major implications for coastal environments, and this partnership will develop steps can be taken towards preparation for and mitigation of those effects to protect our nation’s coastal areas, including Washington.
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Project Title: Short-tailed Albatross
Recovery Program
Recipient: U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service
Amount: $900,000
Location: Anchorage, AK
Purpose: This funding would support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in its fiveyear long project to establish a new albatross colony on a non-volcanic island as part of a larger recovery plan.
Importance: Restoring the short-tailed albatross and its eventual removal from the endangered species list would not only be an ecological success story, but help guarantee the uninterrupted operation of commercial fisheries in Alaska which are economically important to the state of Washington.
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Project Title: Soos Creek Sewer Lift Station
Replacement
Recipient: Soos Creek Water and
Sewer District
Amount: $800,000
Location: Covington, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the installation of a gravity flow lift (pump) station and gravity-fed sewer lines to replace the current lift station which is aged and deteriorated and threatens to spill untreated wastewater into Jenkins Creek.
Importance: The replacement lift would reduce the threat of spilling untreated wastewater into a salmon bearing creek and provide updated wastewater services for King County residents.
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Project Title: Timber-Fish-Wildlife Program
Recipient: Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission
Amount: $1,740,000
Location: Statewide
Purpose: This funding would support tribal participation in the cooperative natural resource management efforts established by the Timber-Fish-Wildlife Agreement of 1987 and the Forests and Fish Report.
Importance: Throughout the Pacific Northwest, tribes co-manage natural resources with state and federal agencies, and this funding ensures that tribal participation continues as required through cooperative agreements and helps enhance and preserve the natural resources of Washington state.
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Project Title: Turnbull National Wildlife
Refuge
Recipient: United States Fish and
Wildlife Service
Amount: $2,500,000
Location: Cheney, WA
Purpose: This funding would allow the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to acquire 800 acres of private in-holdings within the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge Stewardship Area.
Importance: Acquisition of these lands would result in enhanced protection of the natural ecosystems of the Refuge, greater protection of local watersheds, and improved conservation of threatened and endangered species.
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Project Title: Upper Columbia United Tribes
(UCUT)
Recipient: UCUT
Amount: $500,000
Location: Spokane, WA
Purpose: This funding would be used to support the Colville, Kalispel, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, and Kootenai Tribes to fulfill federal mandates in natural resources management, primarily focused on fish and wildlife habitat protection and restoration, and fish and wildlife population management.
Importance: Funding would support fulfillment of federal mandates, while also supporting jobs in areas of Washington state that have historically high unemployment rates.
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Project Name: Urban Indian Health Clinics
Recipient: Urban Indian Health
Programs
Amount: $41,000,000
Location: Nationwide
Purpose: This is a programmatic increase request that would support the thirty-four Urban Indian Health Centers across the U.S. that provide culturally appropriate health services to many Native Americans, including primary care as well as outreach and referral services.
Importance: This vital program is necessary to meet the health needs of Native Americans living in urban areas, and specifically is important for Washington state which houses two of these programs: the Seattle Indian Health Board in Seattle and the NATIVE project in Spokane.
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Project Name: U.S.- Canada Pacific Salmon
Treaty
Recipient: Northwest Indian
Fisheries Commission, Columbia River Intertribal Fish
Commission, Metlakatla Indian Community
Amount: $4,700,000
Location: Throughout West Coast and Alaska
Purpose: This is a programmatic increase request that would support tribal participation in the U.S.- Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty, created in 1985 through the cooperative efforts of the tribes, state governments, United States and Canadian governments and sport commercial fishing interests.
Importance: Funds allocated to the U.S.-Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty foster collaboration between tribes and other regional, state, and federal entities, and support applied research, data gathering, and monitoring efforts that advance the overall salmon management as required by the treaty.
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Project Title: Washington Cascade Ecosystems
(Big Creek/Sawmill Creek South)
Recipient: United States Forest
Service
Amount: $2,625,000
Location: Wenatchee and Mt.
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests
Purpose: This funding would be used to purchase and acquire over 800 acres in the central Cascades for the Forest Service.
Importance: Acquisition of these parcels will ensure protection of valuable wildlife habitat, improve habitat connectivity, enhance recreational activities and reduce land management complexities.
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Project Title: Wild Sky Land Acquisition
Recipient: United States Forest
Service
Amount: $3,300,000
Location: Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie
National Forest
Purpose: This funding would allow the U.S. Forest Service to acquire approximately 700 acres of private in-holdings adjoining the Wild Sky Wilderness, within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Importance: Adding the proposed acres, which are located adjacent to the newly created Wild Sky Wilderness, will ensure protection of valuable wildlife habitat, improve habitat connectivity, and enhance recreational activities.