[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 85 (Thursday, May 22, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1043]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                         HON. RODNEY ALEXANDER

                              of louisiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 21, 2008

  Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam Speaker, I submit the following:
  Requesting Member: Congressman Rodney Alexander.
  Bill Number: H.R. 5658.
  Provision: Title I APA line 020.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Army National Guard Readiness 
Center.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 111 S. George Mason Drive, Arlington, 
VA, 22204.
  Description of Request: 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 and 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 
FY09 ``Essential 10-Top 25'' unfunded priorities.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Rodney Alexander.
  Bill Number: H.R. 5658.
  Provision: Title II, RDA 0602720A line 22.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Mezzo Technologies.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 716 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 
70806.
  Description of Request: This is an Environmental Quality Technology 
initiative in the Pollution Prevention category that will address the 
Army's Unfunded need for additional CBRN soldier protection. The 
program will develop and test critical components for an Integrated 
ECS/CARS. Current chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear (CBRN) 
air filtration systems rely on carbon filters to remove harmful agents 
from air being used to ventilate armored military vehicles. The program 
will provide the following benefits to the military: increased CBRN 
soldier protection; reduced operation and support costs over 
traditional filtration systems; reduced logistical burden associated 
with replacement of filters; and reduced dependence on global warming 
refrigerants.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Rodney Alexander.
  Bill Number: H.R. 5658.
  Provision: Title II, RDA 0602787A line 26.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Biomedical Research Foundation of 
Northwest Louisiana.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1505 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 
71103.
  Description of Request: The Biomedical Research Foundation in 
collaboration with Embera Neuro Therapeutics, Inc. are seeking federal 
assistance to develop a collaborative research plan with the Department 
of Defense to test the effectiveness of EMB 001 for treatment of post 
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related neuropsychiatric 
disorders. EMB 001 is a novel treatment for drug addictions as it is 
the only emerging drug that reduces the cravings of the addict for the 
drug; thus, works to cure the addiction through decreased need. It does 
this by diminishing the effects of the environmental cues that trigger 
the cravings for the drug in the brain that cause drug use or relapse 
to drug use. While most other medicines designed to treat drug and 
alcohol addictions typically only target the limbic system of the 
brain, Embera's approach targets the prefrontal cortex, which is a 
higher cognitive center than the limbic system. Embera's lead 
therapeutic patent-pending drug, EMB 001, developed by Dr. Goeders, is 
a novel composition of two off-patent, FDA-approved drugs with a long 
history of use and an established safety profile. Dr. Goeders, 
currently serves as the Head of Pharmacology and Director, Stress and 
the Neurobiology of Drug and Alcohol Dependence Training Program at the 
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Rodney Alexander.
  Bill Number: H.R. 5658.
  Provision: Title II, RDAF 0301555F line 4.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Air Force Cyberspace Command 
Louisiana Tech University.
  Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 10348, Ruston, LA 71272.
  Description of Request: ``UNCLASSIFIED DESCRIPTION'' Remote Suspect 
Identification (RSI) is a novel technology that uses mathematical 
models for identity verification over electronic networks. Aspects of 
this work have been commercialized in the private sector. Building upon 
recent collaborative successes with Louisiana Tech University in 
Ruston, Louisiana, the Air Force has expressed strong interest in 
further development of the algorithms and associated software for 
military applications. This project will enhance the Air Force's 
capability to capitalize upon innovations from Louisiana Tech 
University's Cyber Research Laboratory, where ongoing research is 
helping to support the goals of the Air Force's Cyberspace Command 
(AFCYBER) at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, LA. This 
important Air Force initiative, driven by research at Louisiana Tech, 
has already benefited from valuable research expertise from the Air 
Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate (Rome, NY), Sandia 
National Laboratories, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 
Lincoln Laboratory.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Rodney Alexander.
  Bill Number: H.R. 5658.
  Provision: Title III, OMDW ba04-0100d line 260.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: National World War II Museum.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 
70130.
  Description of Request: This request would provide a one-time 
permanent $50 million authorization, subject to appropriations, for the 
National WW II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. On June 6, 2000, the 
National D-Day Museum opened in New Orleans. On December 7, 2001, the 
Pacific Wing of the Museum opened.
  The National D-Day Museum was officially designated by the U.S. 
Congress as ``America's National World War II Museum'' in the final 
Fiscal Year 2004 Defense Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 108-87, Section 
8134). A key reason for this national designation is clearly spelled 
out in the second Congressional finding of Section 8134 that ``The 
National World War II Museum is the only museum in the United States 
that exists for the exclusive purpose of interpreting the American 
experience during the World War II years (1939-1945) on both the 
battlefront and the homefront and, in doing so, covers all of the 
branches of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine.''
  Approximately $33 million in state funds and another $40 million in 
private funds already available and pledged in matching state/local/
private funding for other Pavilions of the WWII Museum. It is planned 
that a total of $240 million in non-Federal support will match any 
future Federal appropriations. The State of Louisiana, which has 
already appropriated $33 million towards the Federal $50m authorization 
request, has also pledged to match dollar for dollar up to the total 
amount of the Federal Authorization, (the entire Federal million 
Authorization) if it is approved by Congress.




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