[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 25, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E371-E373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. STEVE KING

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 25, 2009

  Mr. KING of Iowa. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican 
Leadership standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following 
information regarding earmarks I received as part of the FY 2009 
Omnibus.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Conservation 
Operations
  Amount: $282,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Hungry Canyons Alliance
  Address of Requesting Entity: 712 S. Hwy. 6 & 59, Oakland, Iowa 51560
  Description of Request: Funds are made available to counties to 
protect infrastructure and farmland from the erosive powers of stream 
degradation. For every $1 invested in Hungry Canyons Project streambed 
stabilization structures, more than $4.25 of property value and an 
average of 1.05 tons of sediment are protected.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Watershed/Flood 
Prevention Operations
  Amount: $1,146,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Natural Resources Conservation 
Service of Iowa
  Address of Requesting Entity: 693 Federal Building, Des Moines, IA 
50309
  Description of Request: The funding would be used to continue the 
implementation of the Little Sioux Flood Prevention Project. This 
project continues to reduce flood damage, gully erosion damage, stream 
channel degradation, and improve water quality within the Little Sioux 
River Watershed of western Iowa. This will assist about 85 landowners 
and five communities that need assistance in installing soil and water 
conservation practices to slow water runoff and reduce erosion damage 
to agricultural land, public infrastructure including roads and 
bridges, and to reduce sediment and associated agricultural nutrients 
and pesticides being delivered to streams and rivers.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Conservation 
Operations
  Amount: $288,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Iowa Soybean Association
  Address of Requesting Entity: 4554 114th St., Urbandale, IA 50322
  Description of Request: Iowa Soybean Association's Certified 
Environmental Management Systems for Agriculture (CEMSA) program's 
overarching goal is to develop and disseminate a means for farmers to 
assess and improve their environmental performance, while improving 
agronomic and economic performance, using an adaptive management tool 
based on ISO 14001 and NRCS's 9-step planning process. This adaptive 
management system employs science-based applied evaluation tools to 
give each farmer baseline data, in the first year, then performance 
data in subsequent years giving them real feedback from their own 
operation on which to make management decisions regarding nutrients, 
soil, pests, energy uses and sources, wildlife habitat, greenhouse gas 
emissions (GHGE) and other atmospheric resources he or she may 
prioritize. ISA staff train and oversee contracted Certified Crop 
Advisors who provide technical assistance to producers in developing 
and maintaining their CEMSA plan. Cost and profit data is also plugged 
into the plan to guide the producer in determining the economic 
sustainability of environmental performance.
  The public now demands from crop producers both increased production 
of food, fiber, fuel, and other biobased product feedstocks and 
increased, documented environmental performance to conserve soils, 
sequester carbon, improve water quality, reduce greenhouse gas 
emissions, improve energy efficiency and increase wildlife habitat. As 
independent business persons, farmers in the Upper Mississippi River 
(UMR) Basin and across the country need management systems to help them 
incorporate the best tools of science and business to measure and 
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both agronomic and environmental performance while sustaining 
profitability. This program has developed and piloted the basic 
management system and the technical assistance model producers in Iowa, 
the UMR Basin, and other agricultural regions need to meet these 21st 
Century demands. Expanding the scale of CEMSA in FY09, integrating 
individual planning with watershed planning, linking performance 
reporting to NRCS's system, and establishing recognized certification 
have significant implications in transferability of CEMSA throughout 
the UMR Basin and nationally. CEMSA is one of the ISA programs 
recognized by the National Academy of Sciences National Research 
Council's study on the Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean 
Water Act as exemplary of the performance-based, public-private 
partnership projects that should be expanded throughout the UMR Basin.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Conservation 
Operations
  Amount: $134,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Iowa Soybean Association
  Address of Requesting Entity: 4554 114th Street, Urbandale, IA 50322
  Description of Request: The Iowa Soybean Association's Watershed 
Management and Demonstration Program is a continuing project that links 
public and private resources and expertise to provide technical 
assistance to individual farmers, groups of farmers, and other 
stakeholders in Iowa watersheds for the purpose of improving 
agriculture's environmental performance and watershed health.
  The project supports expert staff to assist watershed organizations 
and groups of farmers in developing and maintaining adaptive management 
plans and in measuring and reporting performance in optimizing 
fertilizer use efficiency, remediating agricultural pollutants, 
decreasing soil erosion, building soil carbon, improving on-farm energy 
efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing wildlife 
habitat, and maintaining or increasing yield and profitability.
  Private-public partnerships among agencies, private industry, 
producers, environmental groups, all levels of government, water 
utilities, and the university are fundamental to the design of this 
project, and those functioning partnerships to achieve the above 
project objectives are a measure of the project's success. This project 
also enables farmers to engage in watershed leadership and planning, 
employing their expertise and motivating more effective environmental 
management practices.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Department of Justice, COPS Meth
  Amount: $500,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Sioux City Police Department
  Address of Requesting Entity: 601 Douglas St., Sioux City, IA 51101
  Description of Request: National Meth Training Center--An informal 
poll of Police Chiefs and Sheriffs in the region conducted by the Sioux 
City Police Department, revealed that most rural communities had 
received little or no training in drug identification, investigative 
methods, intelligence gathering, search warrant preparation and 
execution or in the hazards of clandestine methamphetamine laboratories 
prior to the inception of the training center. The Sioux City Police 
Department National Training Center maintains a vision of providing the 
most current and relevant training in the area of narcotics law 
enforcement. The training center's mission is to support the overall 
effort to control and reduce methamphetamine production, trafficking 
and distribution on the local, regional and national level. The Sioux 
City Police Department is providing the leadership in developing 
training now and for the future. To that end the NTC strives to:
  Provide the most current and relevant training in all areas of 
narcotics law enforcement provided by the most highly skilled 
instructors available. Provide skills based training through the use of 
simulation and scenario based practicals. Provide a central 
clearinghouse for the organization, coordination, research and 
curriculum development targeted towards the continued education of 
those in the law enforcement profession. Provide current situational 
awareness regarding the connections between narcotics trafficking and 
terrorist activities.
  The NTC is in a unique position at this time to assist law 
enforcement professionals across the nation in their fight against 
illegal drugs. Officers and administrators from 40 states have attended 
training at our facility. Instructors and students who have attended 
training in Sioux City have also spread the word about the unique 
training opportunities available at the NTC. Students from as far away 
as Alaska, California, New York and Florida have attended training at 
the NTC. Officers have come from as far away as Oklahoma using their 
own vacation time just to attend the training provided by the training 
center because that same training would otherwise be unavailable to 
them.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Department of Justice, OJP--Byrne Discretionary Grants
  Amount: $600,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Heartland Family Services, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 515 East Broadway, Council Bluffs, IA 
51503
  Description of Request: Heartland Family Services Residential 
Methamphetamine Treatment in Southwest Iowa--The need for the Southwest 
Iowa Methamphetamine Treatment Program centers around the epidemic of 
methamphetamine use. One in three child protective investigations in 
the Council Bluffs area involves this drug. Some babies are born with 
methamphetamine in their system, and children are exposed to use of the 
drug in their home. Some children live in homes where methamphetamine 
is being manufactured.
  This project will be a collaborative effort between Heartland Family 
Services, the Iowa Department of Human Services, the courts, and other 
social service agencies. It is a clinically managed low-intensity 
residential service for substance abuse patients, using Heartland 
Family Service's established residential treatment and counseling 
facilities. The program offers women an interim residential treatment 
service, and at the same time allows them to continue parenting their 
children. Treatment is directed toward applying recovery skills, 
preventing relapse, promoting personal responsibility and reintegrating 
the patient into work, education and family life. Services include 
individual, group and family therapy.
  This level of care is a missing piece in the substance abuse 
treatment continuum of care in Southwest Iowa. Patients who complete 
residential programming ordinarily go directly home and receive 
outpatient treatment. To prevent relapse, many of these patients would 
benefit from a monitored interim treatment setting. Each patient has 
clinical oversight by a professional counselor who assesses the 
psychosocial history of a substance abuser to determine the most 
appropriate treatment plan.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Corps of Engineers, Section 206
  Amount: $0--It is a named project
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Iowa Department of Natural Resources
  Address of Requesting Entity: 502 East Ninth Street, Des Moines, IA 
50319
  Description of Request: Little Storm Lake Aquatic 206 Restoration 
Project--This joint project between the local Storm Lake Improvement 
Group, the US Army COE and the IDNR has as an objective to improve the 
aquatic species habitat in the Storm Lake watershed and to restore the 
wetland function of Little Storm Lake. Any funding made available to 
this project will be used to continue design and construction of the 
Little Storm Lake Aquatic 206 Restoration Project critical to improve 
aquatic species habitat and restore wetland function.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Bureau of Reclamation, Water and Related Resources
  Amount: $27,000,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Lewis and Clark Regional Water 
System
  Address of Requesting Entity: 401 E 8th Street, Suite 306, Sioux 
Falls, SD 57103
  Description of Request: When completed, Lewis & Clark Regional Water 
System will be a wholesale supplier of treated water to 20 cities and 
rural water systems in northwest Iowa, southeast South Dakota and 
southwest Minnesota (an area the size of Connecticut). Over 300,000 
people in the tri-state region will benefit from the project. Iowa 
members include Hull, Rock Rapids, Sheldon, Sibley and Sioux Center. 
L&C will have an immense impact on the quality of life and economic 
development of the tri-state region. The project is a unique 
cooperative agreement among the federal government, three states and 20 
local governments. This type of cooperation and consolidation, which in 
L&C's case involves 20 cities and rural water cities banding together 
to address common water needs, is a model of efficiency that the 
federal government is encouraging.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Environmental Protection Agency, STAG Water and Wastewater 
Infrastructure Project

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  Amount: $150,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: The City of Spencer, Iowa
  Address of Requesting Entity: 418 2nd Ave. West, Spencer, Iowa 51301
  Description of Request: To continue design and construction of the 
Combined Sewer Separation Projects critical to eliminate the overflow 
of sewage into the basements of City of Spencer citizens during major 
thunderstorms. The City of Spencer continues to dedicate significant 
funding toward separating storm and sanitary sewers over 100 years old, 
which serves one-third of City of Spencer residents. Since 1990, five 
projects have been completed towards this goal.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources 
and Services Administration--Health Facilities and Services
  Amount: $476,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Iowa Western Community College
  Address of Requesting Entity: 2700 College Road, Council Bluffs, IA 
51502
  Description of Request: Iowa Western Nursing Center of Excellence--
Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs will use these funds 
to increase the number of highly skilled nurses in the state of Iowa. 
Since 2003, 100% of Iowa Western Community College's graduates have 
passed the state nursing certification test on the first attempt, which 
is better than many of the state's, as well as the region's, four-year 
institutions. Because Iowa Western Community College currently 
graduates many of the state's top dental assistants, dental hygienists, 
practical nurses, registered nurses, surgical technologists, medical 
assistants and emergency medical technicians, enrollment could be 
greatly increased to meet demand if the college had the necessary 
equipment and expanded faculties. Therefore, Iowa Western Community 
College proposes a new Iowa Western Nursing Center of Excellence, with 
multiple laboratories and high-tech equipment on which to train 
thousands of future nurses within the next decade. The college, 
community and private donors have recently committed at least 
$10,000,000 to the Center's construction. The new laboratories and 
equipment will strongly enhance substantial job creation within Iowa, 
improve access to health care for Iowans and expand the creation of a 
scientifically qualified workforce in the medical and health services 
arena. By greatly enhancing the teaching environment, as well as the 
physical learning space and equipment, Iowa Western Community College 
will alleviate the region's nurse shortage and double the number of 
nurses it trains annually by 2012.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources 
and Services Administration--Health Facilities and Services
  Amount: $428,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Northwestern College
  Address of Requesting Entity: 101 7th St SW, Orange City, IA 51041
  Description of Request: Northwestern College's Health and Healing 
Nursing Project is designed to meet the needs of its growing Bachelor 
of Science in Nursing (BSN) program; the staff educational needs of the 
Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS); and continued collaboration 
between OCAHS and Northwestern. Funding is requested for equipment for 
the nursing arts laboratory that is being built as part of the 
College's Health and Healing Nursing Project. Operating collaboratively 
with the Orange City Area Health System, the project will directly 
address the nation's impending nursing shortage by providing excellent 
new BSN nurses in a particularly rural area, while also providing for 
the ongoing educational and assessment needs of the hospital. Western 
Iowa will gain a critical opportunity to educate new nurses at an 
advanced level, as the need for advanced nursing education in rural 
western Iowa is well documented.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Transportation, Community, and System Preservation
  Amount: $570,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Iowa Department of Transportation
  Address of Requesting Entity: 800 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50010
  Description of Request: Requested funding will be used to continue 
construction of four-lane US 20 in northwest Iowa from the county line 
of Sac and Calhoun counties in Iowa to Moville, Iowa. The Iowa 
Department of Transportation continues to dedicate significant funding 
toward completing the final 90 miles of this expansion project. 
Activity ranging from grading to environmental study and design is 
taking place on each of the 90 miles with 45.5 miles in the DOT's Five 
Year Plan in the construction phase. The funding will assist in this 
critical project to increase traveler safety, economic development and 
stem population loss in one of the state's most productive regions.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Transportation, Community, and System Preservation
  Amount: $237,500
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Council Bluffs
  Address of Requesting Entity: 209 Pearl Street, Council Bluffs, IA 
51503
  Description of Request: The funding will be used to reconstruct 24th 
St from I-80 to 23rd Ave in order to accommodate traffic volumes, 
improve safety, and provide alternate routes for I-80 traffic. The 24th 
St interchange with I-80 directs more than 11 million annual visitors 
to the city's entertainment corridor.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Economic Development Initiatives
  Amount: $475,000
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Council Bluffs
  Address of Requesting Entity: 209 Pearl Street, Council Bluffs, IA 
51503
  Description of Request: The funding will be used to implement a 
targeted program of single family rehabilitation and new construction, 
acquisition/rehabilitation of single family properties and blight 
removal and site development in the Playland Park neighborhood. The 
significance of this project will be felt not only locally but 
regionally as well. The project's location is highly visible and is a 
gateway into Council Bluffs. It will complement a sizeable ongoing 
``Rivers Edge'' project estimated at $50 million.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Transportation, Community, and System Preservation
  Amount: $427,500
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Iowa Department of Transportation
  Address of Requesting Entity: 800 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50010
  Description of Request: The funding will be used for the planning and 
construction of the U.S. 34 bridge in Mills County, Iowa. The project 
begins at Interstate 29/US 34 interchange west of Glenwood, Iowa. From 
that point it curves northwesterly crossing the Missouri River north of 
the confluence with the Platte River. The relocated US 34 alignment 
intersects with US 75 (Kennedy Expressway) south of Bellevue, NE.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Steve King
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009
  Account: Interstate Maintenance Discretionary
  Amount: $1,092,500
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Sioux City
  Address of Requesting Entity: 405 6th Street PO Box 447 Sioux City, 
IA 51102
  Description of Request: Interstate 29 Utility Relocation Project in 
Sioux City, IA--The Iowa Department of Transportation has included the 
much needed reconstruction of Interstate 29 through Sioux City in their 
2008-2012 Highway Program. The project currently has $87 million 
committed for interstate reconstruction in fiscal years 2009-2012. With 
reconstruction begun in calendar 2008, the City of Sioux City must 
relocate utilities existing within the Interstate 29 right-of-way. The 
funding will be used for design, construction, and contract 
administration costs of the utilities move.

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