[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 86 (Friday, May 23, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1071-E1073]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. ZOE LOFGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 22, 2008

  Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Madam Speaker, I rise today to submit 
into the Congressional Record a list of projects that I have requested 
receive federal funding as part of the FY09 appropriations process. The 
projects requested in the list below were presented to me by 
constituents, local groups, and local governments.
  Project Name: Multidisciplinary Alternative Reception Center (MARC). 
The Multidisciplinary Alternative Reception Center (MARC) would provide 
a facility for police to refer non-violent minors in Santa Clara 
County.
  Project Name: Collaborative Response to Victims of Domestic Violence. 
This project will develop a new model of collaborative education, 
training and community response to victims of domestic violence. The 
College of Applied Sciences and Arts (CASA) at San Jose State 
University will foster interdisciplinary education and internship team 
placements in the relevant departments/schools in collaboration with 
central public and community agencies in both Santa Clara County and 
the city of San Jose, California.
  Project Name: San Jose Police Mobile Identification, Field Reporting, 
and Records Management Systems. This project will complete department-
wide availability of mobile identification technology and initiate 
addition of automated field reporting and upgraded records management 
systems. In addition, it will address inefficiencies and enable better 
cross-analysis and information sharing.
  Project Name: South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Study (NASA-Ames 
Research Center). A 2.5 mile trail adjacent to the restored habitat and 
NASA's Ames Research Center is being constructed as part of Phase 1 
restoration of the South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds. The requested 
funding will be utilized to construct a new security fence for the 
Research Center as the current fence is sub-standard and could be 
easily compromised.
  Project Name: Coyote Creek Watershed. The project is a new study and 
was authorized by a May 2002 resolution of the House Transportation and 
Infrastructure Committee. The Coyote Creek Watershed Study will examine 
ways to provide flood protection for the cities of San Jose, Milpitas, 
and Morgan Hill, including a major portion of the Silicon Valley's 
high-tech area.
  Project Name: Upper Guadalupe River. The Upper Guadalupe River flood 
protection project will provide flood protection for 7,500 homes in 
Santa Clara County.
  Project Name: Guadalupe River. The Guadalupe River flood protection 
project extends through downtown San Jose from Interstate 880 to 
Interstate 280 and protects the area from $576 million in damages from 
a one percent flood. The project is part of a multi-phased flood 
protection project along the Guadalupe River and is an integral 
component to downtown San Jose's revitalization efforts.
  Project Name: San Jose Area Water Reclamation and Reuse Project. The 
San Jose Water Reclamation and Reuse Project will increase water supply 
reliability and protect endangered species by reducing wastewater 
discharges into San Francisco Bay through the recycling of wastewater.
  Project Name: Coyote and Berryessa Creeks. The project provides 
extensive flood protection to the area downstream of Montague 
Expressway in Milpitas and San Jose where potential damages from a 1 
percent flood exceed $250 million.
  Project Name: Llagas Creek. By providing flood protection to the 
local community, the project will protect 1,100 homes, 500 businesses, 
and over 1,300 acres of agricultural land in Santa Clara County that 
would otherwise result in damages totaling more than $8 million (1982) 
dollars with annual average damages of $900,000.
  Project Name: Upper Penitencia Creek. The Upper Penitencia Creek 
flood protection project will provide flood protection to over 5,000 
homes, schools, and businesses in the communities of San Jose and 
Milpitas and surrounding areas, with potential damages from a 100-year 
flood exceeding $455 million. The project includes modified 
floodplains, levees, floodwalls and bypass channels along the Upper 
Penitencia Creek.
  Project Name: South San Francisco Shoreline. The South San Francisco 
Shoreline study project is expected to provide tidal and fluvial flood 
protection for Silicon Valley, including approximately 42,800 acres, 
7,400 homes and businesses, and major highways, parks, and airports. 
This year's funding will allow the Corps of Engineers to make 
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progress on completion of the Feasibility Report for the study as 
directed by the Water Resources Development Act of 2007.
  Project Name: San Jose Urban Forest Planting Program. This project 
will plant trees throughout San Jose, in partnership with Our City 
Forest, to achieve the goal of 100,000 new trees over the next 15 
years, replacing 60,000 trees lost and increasing the tree canopy to 
reduce urban heat island effects and carbon impacts. Trees will be 
planted throughout the City and will benefit all of the diverse 
communities within San Jose.
  Project Name: South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Study (USGS). US 
Geological Survey would use these funds to conduct interdisciplinary 
monitoring (biological, hydrological, and water quality studies) of 
Salt Ponds in San Pablo Bay and San Francisco Bay. With restoration 
work occurring in both the South Bay and North Bay salt ponds, there is 
an urgent need for monitoring to guide planning and implementation 
efforts.
  Project Name: South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Study (FWS). The Don 
Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge is managing 9,600 
acres of the recently acquired South Bay Salt Ponds; funding is needed 
annually to effectively manage these lands, including installation and 
management of water control structures, levee maintenance, and 
monitoring of salt ponds.
  Project Name: The Japanese American Experience: Making It Available. 
Located in one of only three Japantowns remaining in California, the 
Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) is contributing to the 
renaissance of Japantown through the construction of a new museum. This 
museum will allow the broader community better access to and 
understanding of the history, culture and arts of Japanese Americans in 
Santa Clara Valley.
  Project Name: Branham Lane/Monterey Highway Rail Grade Separation--
San Jose, CA. Federal funding will complete environmental assessment 
work and conceptual engineering to convert the highway-rail at-grade 
intersection of Branham Lane and Monterey Highway to a below-grade 
intersection. By depressing Branham Lane and Monterey Highway, the 
project will separate vehicles and trains to provide both a safety and 
congestion relief benefit.
  Project Name: Lazzarini Place Affordable Homes--San Jose, CA. Federal 
funding will provide funds to train at-risk young women and men in the 
construction of new homes for low-income first time home buyers.
  Project Name: Advanced Zero-Emission Bus Demonstration Program--Santa 
Clara, CA. This funding request relates to purchasing three hydrogen 
fuel-cell buses by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in 
order to implement an Advanced Zero-Emission Bus Demonstration Program 
pursuant to regulations enacted by the California Air Resources Board. 
Under the program, public transit agencies must purchase a minimum of 
three advanced zero-emission buses and operate them in revenue service 
for a minimum of 12 months starting January 2009.
  Project Name: Way Back Lot at Children's Discovery Museum--San Jose, 
CA. Proposed project includes the following: (1) A 30,000 square foot 
outdoor exhibit gallery with interactive exhibits and educational 
program spaces that engage children in the process of creating ideas 
and solutions that have been San Jose's stock-in-trade as far back in 
history as archaeologists have documented. (2) A perimeter wall or 
fence, artistically designed to depict distinct cultural periods of the 
Guadalupe River, which also secures the outdoor exhibit gallery for the 
safety of visitors and deters vandals. (3) A 12,000 square foot ``green 
building'' expansion to Children's Discovery Museum's southern wing 
that will serve as support space to the new outdoor gallery.
  Project Name: First-Time Homebuyer Low Income Downpayment Assistance 
Program--San Jose, CA. The mission of the Housing Trust of Santa Clara 
County is to provide the resources and leadership to make housing more 
affordable for those who want to live and work in Santa Clara County. 
Federal funds will go to a revolving loan fund for Low Income 
Assistance Program to households with incomes up to 80% of Area Median 
Income, with maximum assistance of $15,000 per loan with a below market 
interest rate loan.
  Project Name: Preserving the Historic Issei Memorial Building--San 
Jose, CA. Federal funding will rehabilitate and renovate a historic 
building built in 1906, now known as the Issei Memorial Building. 
Structural safety improvements are needed and facility expansion is 
required to meet the needs of the local community.
  Project Name: DeWitt Avenue S-Curve Realignment--Santa Clara County, 
CA. The project would straighten the existing horizontal curve and 
flatten the vertical curve by extending it and widening the travel 
lanes. The project would straighten an S-Curve on DeWitt Avenue to 
enhance the line of sight for motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians, 
thereby improving overall safety.
  Project Name: Silicon Valley Regional Interoperability Project 
(SVRIP) Data Interoperability Project. Like jurisdictions across the 
country, the SVRIP operates standalone and disparate Computer Aided 
Dispatch (CAD), as well as law enforcement and fire Records Management 
Systems (RMS). The SVRIP has piloted a way to shave valuable minutes 
off the response times of first responders by interconnecting three 
disparate CAD systems.
  Project Name: Development & Testing of Advanced Paraffin-based Hybrid 
Rockets for Space Applications. Recent research at Stanford University 
has led to the identification of a new class of fast burning paraffin-
based fuels that promise to make hybrid rockets a practical system for 
a wide variety of propulsion applications of interest to the 
government.
  Project Name: Strategic Language Initiative (CSU Center for Strategic 
Languages). The 5 California State University (CSU) campuses originally 
comprising the Strategic Language Initiative (SLI) Consortium worked 
collaboratively between 2005 and 2007 to create an effective model 
capitalizing on campus language expertise, student heritage language 
diversity, and local linguistic communities in Arabic, Mandarin, 
Korean, Persian, and Russian. The Consortium's success in southern 
California can be enhanced by developing a similar model in northern 
California. This request would build the programs within the current 
Consortium, and add CSU campuses in San Francisco and San Jose. Lessons 
learned from the current 5 programs will shape the 2 new programs.
  Project Name: Advanced IED Jammer Research & Development Program. The 
most important aspect of the program is the development of a next 
generation IED jammer that can simultaneously allow our Blue Force 
radios to communicate. Another facet of the program is to develop a 
flexible, standardized, jammer architecture that can adapt to changing 
threats quickly, a so-called ``multi-mission spectral combat system'' 
architecture.
  Project Name: Advanced Tactical Threat Warning Radio (ATTWR). This 
project will substantially advance U.S. Special Forces teams to combat 
and defend our troops against radio controlled roadside bombs. The 
effort will lead to an advanced technology that will allow for the 
dismantling of the terror cell command and control elements, as well as 
identify and locate the bomb making factories. This effort will 
ultimately save U.S. lives and also reduce the number of maiming and 
casualties due to IED's.
  Project Name: Large Area and Printed Electronics for Defense Systems. 
This project involves the combination of new, advanced materials and 
large area printed electronics and will enable flexible, lightweight, 
and rugged photovoltaic, battery, sensor, and communication products 
for military systems. Integration with textiles and other surfaces will 
enable production of electronics for military infrastructure not 
possible today.
  Project Name: Nonlinear Optics for Memory Electronics (NOME). This 
project will be used to develop and manufacture nonlinear materials, 
solid state lasers and large field of view deep ultra-violet objectives 
for the development and inspection of memory microelectronic chips, as 
well as advanced microelectronics that are used in classified and 
secure communications equipment, electro-optic sensors, satellites, and 
various weapon systems.
  Project Name: San Jose Courthouse. This money would be used for site 
acquisition for a new Federal Courthouse in San Jose.
  Project Name: AACI Domestic Violence Shelter Project. The Asian 
Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) Domestic Violence Shelter 
Project will expand an emergency shelter for abused women and their 
children. In Santa Clara County, this is the only domestic violence 
shelter that meets the linguistic and cultural needs of the Asian 
community.
  Project Name: Regional Homeless Medical Respite Care Initiative. 
Funding will be used for one-time start-up costs of a homeless medical 
respite care program providing post-hospitalization medical services to 
the homeless in San Jose/Santa Clara County, including program 
refinements, personnel, and equipment, in order to address medical 
needs in a more cost-effective manner, to be sustained by local 
funding.
  Project Name: Center for Migration Studies. Purpose of the funding is 
to establish an interdisciplinary Center for Migration Studies (CMS), 
envisaging faculty and student participation from multiple departments 
in the College of Social Sciences at San Jose State University (SJSU). 
The main objective of the CMS is to facilitate interdisciplinary 
research on a comprehensive, multifaceted examination of immigrants' 
experiences globally.
  Project Name: Center for Employment Training--IT Capacity Building. 
Center for Employment Training (CET) is a private, non-profit human 
services organization focused on providing employment training and 
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project will expand and upgrade the IT capacity of the organization and 
enhance the computer technology for vocational training and GED 
education services for at-risk youth, ages 18-24.
  Project Name: Student Partners Reaching Kids. The Student Partners 
Reaching Kids (SPRK) program serves more than 1,000 young adolescents 
through a series of offerings which form a continuum of opportunities 
throughout the year for students in the fourth through ninth grade age 
range.

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