[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 82 (Monday, May 19, 2008)]
[House]
[Pages H4151-H4153]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, LIMITED TAX BENEFITS, OR LIMITED TARIFF 
                                BENEFITS

  Under clause 9 of rule XXI, lists or statements on congressional 
earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits were 
submitted as follows:

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                         Offered By Mr. Bilbray

       Bill Number: H.R. 2649.
       Account: Bureau of Reclamation, Water Related Resources, 
     Title XVI.
       Legal Name of Requesting Entity: The Olivenhain Municipal 
     Water District.
       Address of Requesting Entity: 1966 Olivenhain Road, 
     Encinitas, CA 92024.
       Description of Request: The Lake Hodges Water Reclamation 
     Project will treat and deliver for consumption impaired 
     surface water from nearby Lake Hodges. Lake Hodges was added 
     to the list of impaired water bodies by the California State 
     Water Resources Control Board in 2003 and again in 2006 
     according to EPA Clean Water Act Sec. 303 (d). This impaired 
     body of water will be hooked up to the regional water supply 
     system via the Olivenhain Reservoir in 2009. In order to 
     treat this impaired water supply in Lake Hodges, the 
     Olivenhain Municipal Water District (District) will be 
     required to upgrade and expand its current treatment plant. 
     Once complete, this project will be able to treat a total of 
     13,000 acre feet per year of Lake Hodges water, and act as a 
     new local water supply to the region.
       The total cost of the Lake Hodges Water Reclamation Project 
     is estimated to be $80 million which will consist of a pre-
     treatment process, plant improvements and retrofitting, 
     hookups to the Olivenhain Water Treatment Plant, and building 
     additional treatment capacity to the current plant to 
     accommodate the 13,000 acre feet per year of new water that 
     will be available. The 75 percent local matching funds will 
     be generated through water rates, connection funds and 
     municipal bonds. Additional funds will be collected from 
     other local agencies who will benefit from this project.

                       Offered By Mr. Rohrabacher

       Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the requirements of the Republican 
     Conference of the House, I am submitting for the Record the 
     following information regarding an earmark I requested, which 
     was included in the reported version of H.R. 5658, the 
     ``Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act:''
       Bill Number: H.R. 5658, the ``Duncan Hunter National 
     Defense Authorization Act.''
       Name of Project: C-I7A.
       Account: Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.
       Legal Name of Requesting Entity: The Boeing Company.
       Address of Requesting Entity: 2401 E. Wardlow Rd., Long 
     Beach, CA 90807-5309.
       Description of Request: I requested $3,900,000,000, in 
     addition to the President's Budget, for the procurement of 15 
     C-17A aircraft. The C-17A is the core airlifter of the United 
     States Air Force. The C-17 is the world's most effective and 
     flexible strategic airlifter, and has revolutionized the 
     movement of troops and equipment into battle by allowing 
     their delivery to parts of the world that were previously not 
     accessible by conventional airlifters. No matching funds are 
     required for this request, as the funding will be used for 
     the Department of Defense.

                         Offered By Mr. Skelton

       The amendment to be offered by Representative Ike Skelton 
     or a designee to H.R. 5658 the Duncan Hunter National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 does not contain any 
     congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited 
     tariff benefits as defined in clause 9(d), 9(e), or 9(f) of 
     rule XXI.

                     Offered by Mr. Bishop of Utah

       Consistent with House Republican Earmark Standards, I am 
     submitting the following earmark disclosure and certification 
     information for seven individual project authorization 
     requests that I made and which were included within the text 
     of H.R. 5658, the ``Duncan Hunter Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2009.''
       Bill Number: H.R. 5658--``The Duncan Hunter Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009.''
       1. Project: Three-Bay Fire Station, Military Construction.
       Project Amount: $5.67 million.
       Account: Air Force, Military Construction (MILCON).
       Requesting Entity: Congressman Rob Bishop.
       Receiving Entity: Hill Air Force Base; Air Force Materiel 
     Command.
       Address: 75th Air Base Wing, Hill AFB, Utah 84056.
       Project Description and Justification: Construction of new, 
     3-bay fire station next to the main runway is necessary to 
     correct for violation of Air Force fire protection 
     regulations regarding response times. New facility is 
     necessary to provide adequate fire protection for aircraft, 
     as well as industrial operations on East side of runway in 
     support of vital national defense missions. This project was 
     already approved in the Air Force's Five-Year Defense Plan as 
     being necessary to meet military safety requirements. MILCON 
     projects are inherently necessary as having been requested 
     and reviewed by the applicable military service in the first 
     instance. Congress merely readjusts prioritization of project 
     funds in any given fiscal year based on showing of emerging 
     or critical needs.
       Matching Funds: Not applicable (Federal entity).
       Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable. Federal defense 
     procurement and contracting statutes apply to the use of 
     these funds.
       2. Project: Small Low-Cost Reconnaissance Spacecraft 
     Components.
       Project Amount: $5 million.
       Account: Air Force; RDT&E.
       Requesting Entity: Utah State University (USU) Space 
     Dynamics Laboratory.
       Receiving Entity: U.S. Air Force Research Lab and USU Space 
     Dynamics Laboratory and USU Space Dynamics Laboratory.
       Addresses: Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Responsive 
     Systems, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico 87117; USU Space Dynamics 
     Lab, Utah State University, 1695 N. Research Park Way, Logan, 
     Utah 84341.
       Project Description and Justification: Project funding 
     would continue R&D efforts begun in FY'07 and FY'08 to 
     develop and demonstrate technologies for new, lower-cost 
     modular space systems which would provide quick, flexible, 
     customizable, secure, and highly-capable satellite platforms 
     for theatre and battleground communications and 
     reconnaissance. Effort will lead to dedicated tactical 
     satellite capabilities at a fraction of today's traditional 
     satellite programs.
       Matching Funds: Not applicable.
       Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable. Federal defense 
     procurement and contracting statutes apply to the use of 
     these funds.
       Comment: USU Space Dynamics Lab is a non-profit research 
     institution of higher learning.
       3. Project: Science, Engineering and Laboratory Data 
     Integration (SELDI).
       Project Amount: $2 million.
       Account: Air Force, Other Procurement.
       Requesting Entity: ES3, Inc.
       Receiving Entity: Air Force Materiel Command, Ogden Air 
     Logistics Center, ES3, Inc.
       Addresses: Ogden Air Logistics Center/ITMS, 6090 Gum Lane, 
     Hill AFB, Utah 84056-5829; ES3, Inc., 1669 East 1400 South, 
     Suite 100, Clearfield, Utah 84015.
       Project Description and Justification: Funding would be 
     used, as in several past years, to provide the Air Force with 
     a rapid lab data access management tool allowing for the 
     elimination of ordering duplicate spare parts in depot 
     overhaul maintenance operations, and enable component trend 
     failure analysis, and to implement a new acoustic signature 
     sensor to ensure proper chemical composition of materials and 
     equipment. SELDI has enjoyed strong Congressional support for 
     many years, and was recognized by Congress in a previous 
     House Report 109-89, at page 108, as a program that saved 
     taxpayers money, and that would ``improve operational 
     aircraft readiness, increase flight safety, and reduce 
     support costs.''
       Matching Funds: Not applicable.
       Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable. Federal defense 
     procurement and contracting statutes apply to use of these 
     funds.
       4. Project: Unserviceable Ammunition Demilitarization.
       Project Amount: $2 million.
       Account: Army, RDT&E.
       Requesting Entity: The Battelle Memorial Institute.
       Receiving Entity: Tooele Army Depot, Utah; Battelle 
     Memorial Institute.
       Addresses: Tooele Army Depot, Tooele, Utah 84074; Battelle 
     Memorial. Institute, 4225 Lake Park Boulevard, Suite 200, 
     Salt Lake City, Utah 84120.
       Project Description and Justification: Funding would be 
     used to design, construct, and demonstrate a prototype acid 
     hydrolysis demilitarization system for the disposal of high-
     risk, high-cost unserviceable or obsolete conventional 
     ammunition or rounds in an environmentally-responsible 
     manner. Tooele Army Depot is one of the largest ammunition 
     storage depots in the entire Department of Defense, and is 
     one of several locations nationwide for the growing storage 
     of obsolete, conventional munitions which must eventually be 
     destroyed. This project is needed to update the Army's 
     outdated technology of ``open-pit, open-burn,'' which is 
     increasingly unacceptable under clean air and clean water 
     standards.
       Matching Funds: Not applicable.
       Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable. Federal defense 
     procurement and contracting statutes apply to use of these 
     funds.
       Comment: The Battelle Memorial Institute is a non-profit 
     research institution which provides valuable technical 
     expertise to complex R&D projects throughout the Department 
     of Defense.
       5. Project: Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engines 
     (VAATE) High Speed Turbine Engine Demonstrator (HiSTED) for 
     Supersonic Cruise Missiles.
       Project Amount: $5.5 million.
       Account: Air Force, RDT&E.
       Requesting Entity: Williams International, Inc.
       Receiving Entity: Air Force Research Lab/Turbine Engine 
     Division; Williams International, Inc.
       Addresses: Air Force Research Lab/Turbine Engine Division, 
     Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433; Williams 
     International, Inc., 3450 Sam Williams Drive, Ogden, Utah 
     84401.
       Project Description and Justification: Funding would be 
     used to continue multi-year effort at demonstrating and 
     qualifying our nation's first Supersonic Cruise Missile 
     Engine which would provide for a high speed (MACH-4 plus) 
     quick conventional strike capability. Other nations such as 
     Russia and India claim to have already fielded a stealthy, 
     supersonic cruise missile. The U.S. is the originator of 
     cruise missile technology, and risks falling behind the 
     technological curve if this funding is not provided and the 
     effort continued.
       Matching Funds: Not applicable.

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       Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable. Federal defense 
     procurement and contracting statutes apply to use of these 
     funds.
       6. Project: C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft.
       Project Amount: $3.9 billion.
       Account: Aircraft Procurement, Air Force.
       Requesting Entity: U.S. Air Force* and Boeing, Inc.
       Receiving Entity: Air Force, and Boeing, Inc.
       Address: 100 North Riverside, Chicago, Illinois 60606-1596.
       Project Description and Justification: Funding would 
     procure an additional 15 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, 
     allowing for more efficient use of taxpayer funds in 
     obtaining additional assets towards meeting DoD's ``Air 
     Mobility Study'' requirements, as opposed to using the funds 
     to program termination activities. Termination has profound 
     negative consequences for the U.S. defense industrial base. 
     This funding will help address those concerns about 
     termination of our only remaining, large-scale military 
     aircraft production line. This is an example of something 
     that a responsible Congress must ask for as a validated 
     military requirement, and risk having it labeled as an 
     ``earmark.'' * Requested funding is a high priority on the 
     Air Force's FY'09 ``Unfunded Priorities List.''
       Matching Funds: Not applicable.
       Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable. Federal defense 
     procurement and contracting statutes apply to the use of 
     these funds.
       7. Project: ICBM Crypto Upgrade (ICU).
       Project Amount: $5 million.
       Account: Air Force, RDT&E.
       Requesting Entity: U.S. Air Force *, and Northrup-Grumman.
       Address: Northrup-Grumman, 1840 Century Park East, Los 
     Angeles, California 90067-2199.
       Project Description and Justification: Funding would 
     upgrade existing decades-old cryptography systems on the 
     Minuteman III Strategic Deterrent system to allow for greater 
     digital security of our nation's nuclear arsenal, and allow 
     for cost reductions in maintaining the new system over the 
     old one. This is something that should have been included as 
     part of the Minuteman III Modification and Upgrade program, 
     but for budgetary reasons alone, wasn't. This is another 
     example of something that Congress must then ask for to 
     support validated military requirements, and risk having it 
     labeled as an ``earmark.'' * Requested funding is a high 
     priority on the Air Force's FY'09 ``Unfunded Priorities 
     List.''
       Matching Funds: Not applicable.
       Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable. Federal defense 
     procurement and contracting statutes apply to the use of 
     these funds.

                        Offered by Mr. Bilirakis

       Bill Number: H.R. 5658.
       Account: Aircraft Procurement Army.
       Names and addresses of Requesting Entities: Sikorsky 
     Aircraft Corporation, 6900 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06615; 
     Pall Aeropower Corporation, 10540 Ridge Road, New Port 
     Richey, FL 34654.
       Description of Request: This earmark provides an additional 
     $5,000,000 to modernize the National Guard H-60 Black Hawk 
     helicopter fleet. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is an 
     essential capability of the National Guard. It provides units 
     in every state with a multi-mission aircraft for search & 
     rescue, utility lift, disaster relief and medical evacuation. 
     The Army National Guard, ARNG, is authorized 782 Black Hawk 
     aircraft, but is short of this authorization by almost 100 
     aircraft. This shortage requires ARNG units to loan or 
     transfer Black Hawks in support deployments, training or 
     state missions, resulting in a higher usage rate of available 
     airframes. Additionally, more than 500 of the 782 National 
     Guard aircraft are older UH-60A models, with an average age 
     of approximately 25 years.
       The Army is procuring over 1200 UH-60M Black Hawks for 
     utility, special operations and MEDEVAC missions to replace 
     the aging UH-60A from operational units by 2016. The Army 
     acquired 33 UH-60M Black Hawks by the end of FY07, and from 
     FY09 to FY13, the Army plans to procure an additional 300 UH-
     60M Black Hawks (70 of those aircraft are programmed for ARNG 
     units). However, without an accelerated procurement of the 
     UH-60M, the Army National Guard will be operating more than 
     400 UH-60A helicopters beyond 2020.
       The ARNG and the Active Army developed a program to support 
     the continued modernization of the ARNG Black Hawk fleet. 
     Unfortunately, this program is not fully funded. The ARNG 
     plan is to accelerate the fielding of UH-60M Black Hawks by 
     10 aircraft per year. Although the Active Army has programmed 
     UH-60A recapitalization for the ARNG with Operations and 
     Maintenance (O&M) funds, which includes an airframe life 
     extension, fleet-wide product improvements and the 
     replacement of components, the UH-60A to L upgrade is not 
     funded.
       The UH-60L Black Hawk is more economical to operate and has 
     1000 lbs of additional lift than the UH-60A. The desired rate 
     of UH-60 A to L upgrades is 38 per year. Funding the UH-60A 
     to L upgrade will significantly improve the Black Hawk fleet, 
     and assure that ARNG units are ready, deployable, and 
     available to protect our national interests both abroad and 
     at home.
       This ARNG aviation initiative has been identified by the 
     Chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB) as a FY09 Essential 
     10--Top 25 unfunded priorities.

                            PETITIONS, ETC.

  Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions and papers were laid on the 
clerk's desk and referred as follows:

       242. The SPEAKER presented a petition of the Commom Council 
     of the City of Hobart, Indiana, relative to Resolution No. 
     2008-07 urging a moratorium on home foreclosures and 
     congressional enactment of a homeowners and bank protection 
     act; to the Committee on Financial Services.
       243. Also, a petition of the Commission of the City of 
     Miami, Florida, relative to Resolution No. 08-0099 urging the 
     Congress of the United States to support the re-enactment of 
     the Federal Assault Weapons Ban as proposed in H.R. 1022; to 
     the Committee on the Judiciary.
       244. Also, a petition of the City Council of the City of 
     Taft, California, relative to Resolution No. 3036-08 
     supporting the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the 
     United States and the decision of the United States Supreme 
     Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Parker et 
     al. v. District of Columbia; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
       245. Also, a petition of the Legislature of Rockland 
     County, New York, relative to Resolution No. 124 requesting 
     that the Congress of the United States review the religious 
     land use provisions of the Religious Land Use and 
     Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000; to the Committee on 
     the Judiciary.
       246. Also, a petition of the City Council of Bakersfield, 
     California, relative to Resolution No. 054-08 supporting the 
     Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and the 
     decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the 
     District of Columbia in Parker et al. v. District of 
     Columbia; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
       247. Also, a petition of the Town Commission of Lauderdale-
     By-The-Sea, Florida, relative to Resolution No. 2008-06 
     requesting that the President of the United States and the 
     Congress of the United States provide funding for expedited 
     repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike; to the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure.
       248. Also, a petition of the Council of St. Charles Parish, 
     Louisiana, relative to Resolution No. 5531 urging the 
     Congress of the United States to appropriate 100% federal 
     funding for one hundred year flood protection for Southeast 
     Louisiana; to the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure.