[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 153 (Thursday, September 25, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1935]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. DAVID DAVIS

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the 
Republican Leadership standards on earmarks, I am submitting the 
following information regarding earmarks I received as part of H.R. 
2638, the ``Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing 
Appropriations Act of 2008.''
  The following projects I requested were included in the legislation 
considered on the floor of the House:
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: Provision of Industrial Facilities, Procurement of 
Ammunition, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: BAE Systems, Inc., Holston Army 
Ammunition Plant.
  Address of Requesting Entity: Washington office--1300 North 17th 
Street, Suite 1400, Arlington, VA 22209; project location--4509 West 
Stone Drive, Kingsport, Tennessee 37660.
  Description of Request: I received an earmark of $1,600,000 for the 
continuation of a project to upgrade and reactivate a second acid 
recovery site at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, 
Tennessee. This acid recovery system is part of the physical property 
of the Holston Army Ammunition Plant and does not belong to the current 
operating contractor of the facility, BAE Systems.
  All production at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant depends on the 
proper function of the plant's only acetic acid recovery system. Since 
there is currently no ready backup system, all explosives manufacturing 
at Holston is vulnerable to a lengthy shutdown if failure were to occur 
in the area of plant operations.
  The acid recovery section of the Holston Army Ammunition Plant is 
critical to all explosives production at the facility. The equipment in 
this portion of the plant has deteriorated with age and use and is 
continually requiring both scheduled and unscheduled repairs in order 
to remain operational. The current demand for high explosives will not 
allow the existing facility to be shut down for an adequate period of 
time to properly refurbish it. Such a shutdown would stop all high 
explosives production for an extended period of time with unacceptable 
impacts to a large number of weapon systems.
  The Holston Army Ammunition Plant has a second acid recovery system 
on site, but it has not operated since the early 1970s and needs 
substantial work to be brought on line. Modernization, upgrading, and 
reactivation of this system could be completed without interrupting 
production. Once completed, the existing facility will be held for 
reserve/backup capability, allowing Holston production to be protected 
against a failure in the system. Upon completion, the new system will 
become the primary system and the aging, deteriorating system will 
become the secondary backup, and this request is consistent with the 
Army's modernization plans for Holston.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: Weapons and Munitions Technology, Research, Development, 
Test, and Evaluation, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: HQ--P.O. Box 13222, Sacramento, CA 
95813-6000, project location--1367 Old State Route 34, Jonesborough, TN 
37659.
  Description of Request: I received an earmark of $2,000,000 for a 
project that will research alternatives to the use of depleted uranium. 
The Department of Defense is actively reviewing replacement materials 
for depleted uranium (DU) because of concerns of radioactivity and 
toxicity. This project looks at ways to determine whether or not 
tungsten can be a viable alternative to DU. The funding for the study 
will be broken down into the following categories and the review of 
four leading alternatives:
  $600,000 for U.S. Army Armament Research, Development, and 
Engineering Center Oversight.
  $453,000 for the study of the layered long rod composite approach.
  $494,000 for the study of nanostructures for severe plastic 
deformation.
  $238,000 for the study of steel jacketed tungsten penetrators.
  $215,000 for the study of infiltrated solid state sintered 
penetrators.

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