[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 36 (Monday, March 2, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E511-E514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. DENNY REHBERG

                               of montana

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 2, 2009

  Mr. REHBERG. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the House Republican 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding earmarks I received as part of H.R. 1105, the FY 2009 Omnibus 
Appropriations Act:


                                Interior

  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg

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  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: DOI--Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition
  Project: Meeteetse Spires Area of Critical Environmental Concern.
  Requesting Entity: The entity to receive funding for this project is 
the Bureau of Land Management.
  Amount: $1,000,000
  Description: The funding will enable the Bureau of Land Management to 
purchase a private in holding within the Meeteetse Spires Area of 
Critical Environmental Concern.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: NPS--Save America's Treasures
  Project: Historic Havre United States Post Office and Federal 
Courthouse Revitalization Requesting Entity: Society for the 
Preservation of Historic Structures, located at 306 Third Avenue, Suite 
103, Havre, MT 59501.
  Amount: $100,000
  Description: The funding would be used for the restoration and 
revitalization of the Havre United States Post Office and Federal 
Courthouse.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: EPA--STAG Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Project
  Project: City of Hamilton Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades Phase I
  Requesting Entity: City of Hamilton, located at 223 South 2nd Street, 
Hamilton, MT 59840
  Amount: $500,000
  Description: The funding will be used for improvements to the 
Wastewater Treatment Plant which will allow for better solids handling 
and improve water quality in the Bitterroot River


                            Energy and Water

  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: BOR--Water and Related Resources
  Project: North Central/Rocky Regional Water System
  Requesting Entity: Chippewa-Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's 
Reservation, R.R. 1, Box 544, Box Elder, MT 59521 and the North Central 
Montana Regional Water Authority, P.O. Box 170, Havre, MT 59501
  Amount: $7,000,000
  Description: Authorized construction of a water system to provide 
safe rural, municipal and industrial water for residents of the Rocky 
Boy's Reservation, Choteau, Glacier, Hill, Liberty, Pondera, Teton and 
Toole Counties, Montana. The Project is being jointly developed with 
the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. The 
completed system would serve about 30,000 North Central Montana 
residents.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: BOR--Water and Related Resources
  Project: Ft. Peck Dry Prairie Rural Water
  Requesting Entity: Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck 
Reservation, P.O. Box 1027, Poplar, MT 59255 and the Dry Prairie Rural 
Water Authority, P.O. Box 577, Culbertson, MT 59218.
  Amount: $10,000,000
  Description: The project involves construction of a water 
distribution system on the reservation of the Fort Peck Tribes and the 
surrounding communities. The new system will supply clean water to 
30,000 residents of Northeast Montana. The FY 2009 funding will finance 
an ongoing contract for construction of the water treatment plant and 
construction of treated water pipelines from the water treatment plant 
to Poplar and Wolf Point needed to deliver treated water on the Fort 
Peck Indian Reservation and for construction of branch lines in the Dry 
Prairie Project. The local share is nearly one-fourth of the total off-
reservation cost.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: BOR--Water and Related Resources
  Project: St. Mary's Rehabilitation
  Requesting Entity: St. Mary Rehabilitation Group, 74 4th Street 
North, Glasgow, MT 59230
  Amount: $500,000
  Description: Funding request is for the first phase of a multi-year 
effort to rehabilitate the St. Mary Diversion Facilities and address 
associated environmental impacts on the Blackfeet Reservation. As 
authorized under Section 5103 of WRDA 2007, funding will be used to 
address project coordination and planning, NEPA studies, engineering 
design, emergency response planning, and right-of-way issues. The St. 
Mary Diversion Facilities import water from the St. Mary River Basin to 
the Milk River Basin in north-central Montana serving the drinking 
water needs for 15,000 in municipalities and 140,000 irrigated acres.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Fossil Energy R and D
  Project: MSU--Center for Zero Emissions Research and Technology
  Requesting Entity: Montana State University, 207 Montana Hall, P.O. 
Box 172460, Bozeman, MT 59717
  Amount: $5,709,000
  Description: New technologies hold great promise to significantly 
reduce emissions from fossil fuels, but the engineering, economic, and 
environmental viability of these zero emission fossil energy 
technologies must be validated. This virtual center encompasses three 
national labs (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Los Alamos 
National Laboratory (LANL), and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL)) 
and two research universities (Montana State University (MSU) and West 
Virginia University (WVU)) in heavy coal producing states to monitor 
and validate deep geological carbon dioxide sequestration and clean 
power and hydrogen generation from coal.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup
  Project: MSE--Western Environmental Tech Office (WETO)
  Requesting Entity: MSE Technology Applications Inc., P.O. Box 4078, 
200 Technology Way, Butte, MT 59701
  Amount: $1,903,000
  Description: DOE, through their Western Energy Technology Office, has 
contracted with MSE Technology Applications, Inc., (MSE) to provide 
support to DOE's environmental cleanup and closure missions. A typical 
project would develop this way: MSE and the DOE site would jointly 
identify a high priority mission need (for instance, unexpectedly 
unearthing unknown hazardous liquid chemicals during pit cleanup at 
Idaho National Laboratory and needing a method for solidification 
without chemical analysis). MSE would propose an approach, and upon 
acceptance by the DOE site and DOE-HQ. MSE would evaluate the technical 
approach at the Butte facility and then along with DOE site personnel 
test and implement the solution.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Corps of Engineers, Construction
  Project: Fort Peck Cabin Conveyance
  Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District, P.O. 
Box 5, Omaha, NE 68101
  Amount: $1,500,000
  Description: Funds will be used to contract for sanitation, 
assessments/engineering services, surveys, appraisals, contract 
administration, and deed preparation. Funding will be used to continue 
communication strategy with stakeholders, specifically cabin owners, 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fort Peck Lake Association, BLM, and MT 
DEQ.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Corps, General Investigations
  Project: Yellowstone River Corridor Comprehensive Study
  Requesting Entity: Yellowstone River Conservation District Council, 
1371 Rimtop Drive, Billings, MT 59105
  Amount: $430,000
  Description: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Yellowstone River 
Conservation District Council, composed of 12 conservation districts 
along the Yellowstone River in Montana and North Dakota, are conducting 
a partnered feasibility study for 716,800 acres and 560 river miles in 
the Yellowstone River Valley. The study, authorized by the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1999, looks at how human actions have 
affected the river and its banks over the last 100 years. Once 
complete, it will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to make defendable 
``404'' permitting decisions for railroads, governments and landowners 
along the river that take into account the cumulative impacts of 
development, and design appropriate mitigating measures. (Corps 
decisions on riverbank structures following the floods of 1996 and 1997 
were found deficient in federal court because the Corps could not 
determine the overall cumulative effect of the permitting decisions.) 
It will also help local conservation districts define Best Management 
Practices for managing the river and riparian area.


              Labor, Health and Human Services, Education

  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)--
Health Facilities and Services
  Project: Benefis Cardiology Suite
  Requesting Entity: Benefis Healthcare Systems located at 2800 llth 
Avenue South, Great Falls, MT 59405

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  Amount: $761,000
  Description: Funds will provide bricks and mortar for a new 
Cardiology Suite, which will house catheritization labs, operating 
rooms, outpatient diagnostics, pre and post procedure rooms, and a 
patient education center, as part of the Benefis Heart and Vascular 
Institute.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)--
Health Facilities and Services
  Project: Community Medical Center (CMC) mammography unit
  Requesting Entity: Community Medical Center located at 2827 Fort 
Missoula Road, Missoula, Montana 59804
  Amount: $476,000
  Description: This funding would allow CMC to redevelop and modernize 
its endoscopy department. The current endoscopy department lacks 
adequate space that makes it difficult for patient access and 
compromises patient and treatment separation.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)--
Health Facilities and Services
  Project: North Country Medical Clinic-Eureka
  Requesting Entity: North Valley Hospital Foundation located at 1600 
Hospital Way, Whitefish, MT 59937.
  Amount: $404,000
  Description: The North County Medical Clinic allows for expanded 
services in obstetrics, urology, cardiology, orthopedics, physical 
therapy, ultrasound imaging, full time laboratory and other imaging 
services such as mobile CAT scan.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)--
Health Facilities and Services
  Project: Roundup Memorial Healthcare health facilities and 
construction
  Requesting Entity: Roundup Memorial Healthcare located at 1202 2nd 
Street West, Roundup, MT 59072.
  Amount: $333,000
  Description: The medical clinic in Roundup, which was built in the 
1970s, is in need of a remodel and renovation. Space limitations make 
it difficult for patients with wheelchairs to navigate throughout the 
clinic. Funds will be used to expand the facilities so that they are 
ADA compliant.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA--
Health Facilities and Services)
  Project: Beartooth Hospital
  Requesting Entity: Beartooth Hospital and Health Center located at 
600 West 21st Street, Red Lodge, MT 59068
  Amount: $333,000
  Description: The current Beartooth Hospital and Health Center is an 
outdated facility--the patient rooms are too small, nursing stations 
are crowded, and that clinical information systems are substandard. 
These funds will support construction of a new hospital, including 
eight inpatient rooms, a larger emergency department to manage the 
hospital's exceptionally high rate of emergency care, a larger 
rehabilitation department to assist persons returning home from either 
Billings hospital after procedures such as hip or knee replacements or 
cardiac surgery, and a larger laboratory.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Higher Education
  Project: Salish Kootenai College
  Requesting Entity: Salish Kootenai College located at P.O. Box 70, 
Pablo, Montana, 59855.
  Amount: $238,000
  Description: Funds will be used to develop training and certification 
programs in multiple nondestructive inspection disciplines for aging 
infrastructure. The curriculum will include necessary classroom 
courses, laboratory courses and at least one quarter of apprenticeship. 
No similar college training programs for NDI careers are available in 
the state of Montana.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA--
Health Facilities and Services)
  Project: Saint Patrick Hospital mental health facility
  Requesting Entity: Saint Patrick Hospital located at 500 West 
Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802.
  Amount: $285,000
  Description: To meet the growing need for mental health services in 
Western Montana, Saint Patrick Hospital is constructing a new mental 
health care unit within the hospital's emergency department.
  Funds will support the construction of three mental health/substance 
abuse rooms, a nurses' station, utility rooms and a security office, 
storage rooms for restraints and other equipment, a ``sally port 
garage'' with automatic doors that close to prevent flight by patients 
who might injure themselves or others at the facility, a state-of-the-
art camera monitoring system for security purposes, and a supervisor 
station at the emergency department for mental health cases.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA--
Health Facilities and Services)
  Project: Billings Clinic cancer facility
  Requesting Entity: Billings Clinic located at 2917 Tenth Avenue 
North, Billings, MT 59103.
  Amount: $285,000
  Description: Billings Clinic will use funds to build a facility for 
cancer patients and their families as they undergo treatments at the 
Cancer Center. Through this service, Billings Clinic can provide access 
to the most up-to-date and innovative oncology therapies available.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA--
Health Facilities and Services)
  Project: St. Vincent Healthcare Foundation
  Requesting Entity: St. Vincent Healthcare Foundation is located at 
1106 North 30th, Billings, MT 59101
  Amount: $95,000
  Description: St. Vincent Healthcare will use these funds to construct 
a digital mammography unit housed in a mobile van to deliver 
mammography services to underserved women of Eastern Montana.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA--
Health Facilities and Services)
  Project: Sidney Health Center
  Requesting Entity: Sidney Health Center located at 216 14th Ave SW, 
Sidney, MT 59270
  Amount: $95,000
  Description: Sidney Health Center is in the process of upgrading and 
enhancing essential medical care for rural northeast Montana. These 
funds will support new digital radiology equipment, laboratory 
equipment and other diagnostic equipment within an electronic medical 
record.


                              Agriculture

  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Agricultural Research Service, Buildings and Facilities
  Project: Animal BioSciences Research Facility
  Requesting Entity: Montana State University, located at 207 Montana 
Hall, P.O. Box 172460, Bozeman, MT 59717
  Amount: $2,192,000
  Description: The funding will be used for construction of a new 
Animal BioSciences Research Facility that would include meeting rooms, 
distance learning delivery rooms, offices and research laboratories.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Cooperative State Research Education and Extension 
Service, Research and Education
  Project: Montana Beef Network
  Requesting Entity: Montana State University, 207 Montana Hall, P.O. 
Box 172460, Bozeman, MT 59717
  Amount: $682,000
  Description: The funding would be used for continuing educational 
programs aimed at meeting Beef Quality Assurance standards and 
information dissemination.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Cooperative State Research Education and Extension 
Service, Research and Education
  Project: Brucellosis Vaccines for Bison
  Requesting Entity: Montana State University, 207 Montana Hall, P.O. 
Box 172460, Bozeman, MT 59717
  Amount: $305,000
  Description: The funding will be used to aid in eliminating the 
threat of brucellosis infections in wildlife and livestock through the 
development of effective new vaccines and vaccine delivery systems.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Cooperative State Research Education and Extension 
Service, Research and Education
  Project: Barley for Rural Development

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  Requesting Entity: Montana State University, 207 Montana Hall, P.O. 
Box 172460, Bozeman, MT 59717
  Amount: $514,000
  Description: The funding will be used in collaboration with 
University of Idaho and North Dakota State University to develop 
improved malt, feed, cellulosic ethanol and food barley varieties for 
barley growers in rural communities.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Salaries and 
Expenses
  Project: Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee
  Requesting Entity: Montana Department of Livestock, 301 North Roberts 
Street, P.O. Box 202001, Helena, MT 59620
  Amount: $650,000
  Description: The funding will support research and activities to 
reduce the prevalence of brucellosis in wildlife as well as to reduce 
the risk of transmission of brucellosis from wildlife to cattle.
  Requesting Member: Representative Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  The Account: Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Rural Cooperative 
Development Grants
  Project: Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)
  Requesting Entity: National Center for Appropriate Technology, 3040 
Continental Drive, P.O. Box 3838, Butte, MT 59702
  Amount: $2,582,000
  Description: The funding will be used for ATTRA which offers 
technical information and assistance to farmers, ranchers and 
agricultural information providers interested in sustainable 
agriculture technologies and marketing methods.


                        Commerce, Justice, State

  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: DOJ--COPS Meth
  Project: Montana Meth Project
  Amount: $1,000,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
Montana Meth Project at 305 South Fourth Street East, Missoula, MT 
59801. The funding would be used in acquiring advertising promotion for 
the purpose of combating Meth addiction in Montana.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  Account: Department of Justice--OJP--Byrne Discretionary Grants
  Project: Montana State University/Billings--Academic and Skills 
Development
  Amount: $350,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is 
Montana State University, Billings at 1500 University Drive, Billings, 
MT 59101. The funding will be used in the continued development and 
implementation of an academic program for inmates at the 
Montana Women's Prison that offers inmates general education coursework 
toward certificate or associate degrees, providing them with job and 
life skills.

  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: DOJ--COPS Law Enforcement Technology
  Project: Great Falls Regional Firearms Training Facility
  Amount: $282,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
Great Falls Police Department at 112 1st Street South, Great Falls, MT 
59401. Funding will be used in the development and construction of a 
multi-agency facility to provide a realistic hands-on training 
environment that is conductive to protecting local and national 
security.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  Account: Department of Justice--OJP--Byrne Discretionary Grants
  Project: City of Billings Digital Video Project
  Amount: $269,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
City of Billings at 210 N. 27th St, Billings, MT 59101. This funding 
will be used in purchasing digital in-car video equipment for patrol 
cars.


                           Financial Services

  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: SBA
  Project: Montana World Trade Center--Enterprise
  Amount: $300,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is 
Enterprise--Montana at Gallagher Business Building, Suite 257, 
University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. The funding would be used in 
creating clusters of small businesses in areas including agriculture, 
food products, environmental and engineering services.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: SBA
  Project: Montana State University--(MMEC) Commercialization of Bio-
Products Amount: $100,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is 
Montana State University, Bozeman at 207 Montana Hall, Bozeman, MT 
59717. The funding would be used in the continued development and 
commercialization of bio-based products.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: SBA
  Project: TechRanch University Centers Program
  Amount: $100,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is 
Montana State University, Bozeman at 207 Montana Hall, Bozeman, MT 
59717. The funding would be used in development of a pilot program for 
strategic business development in the rural areas throughout Montana.


             Transportation, Housing and Urban Development

  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: FHWA--FL
  Project: Montana Secondary 323 from Ekalaka to Alzada
  Amount: $2,850,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
Montana Department of Transportation at 2701 Prospect Avenue, Helena, 
MT 59620. The funding would be used for the continued improvements of 
Secondary Highway 323 in order to upgrade the corridor for a safer and 
modern standard of travel in Southeastern Montana, as well as a greater 
enhancement for commercial and recreational transportation.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: FHWA--FL
  Project: Livingston Railroad Grade Separation Undercrossing
  Amount: $332,500
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
City of Livingston at 414 E. Callender Street, Livingston, MT 59047. 
The funding would be used in the preparation of environmental 
documentation, development of project design, and preparation of 
contract documents for bidding and construction of a railroad grade 
separated undercrossing.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: FHWA--FL
  Project: The Poverello Center
  Amount: $285,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
Poverello Center, Inc. located at 535 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 
59802. The funding will be used in the expansion of the Poverello 
homeless shelter and soup kitchen.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: Buses & Bus Facilities
  Project: Billings Replacement Paratransit Vans
  Amount: $247,000
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
City of Billings at 210 N. 27th St., Billings, MT 59101. The funding 
will be used in replacement of four handicapped equipped vans for the 
elderly and disabled community.
  Requesting Member: Denny Rehberg
  The Bill Number: HR 1105
  The Account: HUD--EDI
  Project: Jefferson County Sunlight Business Park
  Amount: $142,500
  Description: The entity to receive funding for this project is the 
Jefferson Local Development Corporation at 309 East Legion Street, 
Whitehall, MT 59759. The funding will be used in the development of 
infrastructure to foster economic diversification in the Sunlight 
Business Park project.

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