[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 4, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E544-E546]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATIONS

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                          HON. GARY G. MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 4, 2009

  Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. 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 Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Resource 
Conservation and Development
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Municipal Water District of Orange 
County
  Address of Requesting Entity: 18700 Ward Street, Fountain Valley, CA 
92728
  Funding Secured: $134,000
  Description of Request: Funding will be used to expand an existing 
$2.2 million program launched in 2004 to distribute an additional 5,500 
Smart Irrigation Controllers by the end of 2011 to the highest water 
using residential and commercial properties in Orange County. This 
``smart'' Irrigation Controller technology assists customers in 
delivering the appropriate amount of irrigation water to landscape 
based on soil, slope, type of landscape, and changing water conditions. 
Smart irrigation controllers will help use exiting water resources and 
efficiently as possible to help take pressure off of our imported water 
supplies from Northern California and the Colorado River. When fully 
implemented there will be a reoccurring 40,000 acre foot savings of 
water every year.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Community Oriented Policing Services' Law Enforcement 
Technology Program
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Brea
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1 Civic Center Circle, Brea, CA 92821

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  Funding Secured: $50,000
  Description of Request: The City will use the funds to develop of a 
forensics criminal science laboratory for its police department. This 
will allow the Brea Police Department to meet legal and scientific 
standards in the proper handling and processing of biological evidence 
(DNA, blood, semen, saliva, and tissues); to process evidence in a 
manner that meets safety standards for the evidence technicians; more 
efficiently and effectively identify and collect latent fingerprint 
evidence through the use of chemistry and light. The creation of the 
forensics criminal science laboratory will give the Department the 
means in which to identify more suspects and solve more crime. It will 
also reduce the workload on outside companies that Brea Police 
Department contracts with and the Orange County Sheriff's crime lab. 
Finally, it will allow the department to control the speed in which 
evidence is processed and maintained.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Office of Justice Programs, Juvenile Justice Delinquency 
Programs
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Hope Through Housing Foundation
  Address of Requesting Entity: 9065 Haven Avenue, Suite 100 Rancho 
Cucamonga, California 91730
  Funding Secured: $750,000
  Description of Request: Funding will be used to administer an after 
school program on site at National CORE affordable housing facilities 
that is designed to help prevent violence and keep at risk youths off 
the streets. This program includes an array of services essential to 
assisting at-risk youth gain the resources they will need to succeed in 
life and school. An afternoon at Hope's After School and Beyond--
Violence Prevention includes: team building exercises, self esteem 
building activities, homework assistance, family literacy and Peace 
Builders, the nationally acclaimed violence prevention curriculum. 
These elements will further develop positive and community networks 
that will support youth in their journey into adulthood, and will 
support their families in helping them on this journey.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Office of Justice Programs, Community Oriented Police 
Services' Law Enforcement Technology
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Orange County District Attorney
  Address of Requesting Entity: 401 Civic Center Drive, Santa Ana, 
California 92701 Funding Secured: $500,000
  Description of Request: Funds will provide for three DNA mobile 
collection vehicles that would travel to the five branch courts in 
Orange County to collect DNA on site from offenders and volunteers. 
Funds would also provide for related equipment, supplies and DNA 
processing. By expanding collection efforts, the District Attorney 
would be able to collect approximately 50 samples a day. The Orange 
County District Attorney DNA Expansion Project will strengthen local 
law enforcement efforts to solve, and ultimately prevent, ``volume 
crimes'' such as burglaries, auto thefts, and robberies. Currently, 
throughout the country, law enforcement DNA laboratories are backlogged 
and must focus on the most violent of crimes, such as homicides and 
rapes. Due to these backlogs, volume crimes are either ``not 
processed'' or significantly delayed. It is well documented that those 
who commit burglaries, also commit other crimes. These crimes include, 
but are not limited to, rapes, homicides, robberies, gang violence, 
drug possession and sales, carjacking, auto theft, etc.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Office of Justice Programs, Byrne Discretionary Grants
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: County of San Bernardino
  Address of Requesting Entity: 655 E Third Street, San Bernardino, 
California
  Funding Secured: $1,925,000
  Description of Request: The request is for the purchase of the 
Automated Fingerprint Identification System for mobile and fixed 
identification. In 1985, the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino 
embarked on a joint venture to create a regional identification system 
designed to be shared by all law enforcement agencies in the 27,360 
square mile jurisdiction (with a combined population of over 
3,250,000). The system provides fingerprint, photo, and DNA services to 
all public safety agencies including the local police departments, 
district attorneys, school districts, coroners, and Sheriffs' 
Departments in both counties. It is also available to other state and 
federal law enforcement agencies that utilize these services on a 
routine basis.

  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Army Corps of Engineers, Construction
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: County of Orange
  Address of Requesting Entity: 300 N Flower Street, Santa Ana, 
California
  Funding Secured: $14,000,000
  Description of Request: This funding will go to construction, 
acquisition of property rights, relocations, environmental mitigation 
and enhancement in Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties for 
the Santa Ana River Mainstem Project. The Army Corps of Engineers 
considers the Santa Ana River as the worst flood threat west of the 
Mississippi River. The Corps estimated that 3 million people and 
110,000 acres would be impacted, with potential loss of 3,000 lives and 
$15 billion in economic losses in 1987 price levels. Estimated impacts 
and loss without the Project being constructed would be much greater 
with current population growth and value of land and structures. In 
addition to protecting a large, highly populated and rapidly growing 
area of Southern California, the Project has and will improve 
protection of major transportation corridors. The Santa Ana River 
Mainstem Project including Prado Dam was authorized under the Water 
Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1986, and Section 309 of WRDA, 
1996. The flood control districts of these counties are the Local 
Sponsors who are responsible for implementing the Project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Department of the Interior and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 
Water and Related Resources, Title XVI
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Orange County Water District
  Address of Requesting Entity: 18700 Ward Street, Fountain Valley, 
California
  Funding Secured: $558,000
  Description of Request: Funds will be used to supply 72,000 acre feet 
per year of water and will provide the backbone facilities for future 
ground water replenishment system expansion. The Groundwater 
Replenishment System (GWR System) is a jointly funded project of the 
Orange County Water District (OCWD) and the Orange County Sanitation 
District (OCSD) with OCWD serving as the lead or constructing agency. 
When complete, the GWR System will be the largest water recycling 
project of its kind in the world, reusing 140,000 acre feet per year 
(AFY) of advance treated wastewater (recycled water). Phase I, 
currently under construction, will supply 72,000 AFY and will provide 
the backbone facilities for future GWR System expansion. The GWR System 
will supplement existing water supplies by providing a new, reliable, 
high-quality source of water to recharge the Orange County Groundwater 
Basin and protect the Basin from further degradation due to seawater 
intrusion. By treating excess storm flows along the Santa Ana River, 
the GWR System project also postpones the need for OCSD to construct a 
new ocean outfall in Huntington Beach.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Environmental Protection Agency's State and Tribal 
Assistance Grants (STAG)
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Orange County Sanitation District
  Address of Requesting Entity: Ellis Avenue, Fountain Valley, 
California 92708
  Funding Secured: $300,000
  Description of Request: The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) 
is under a Consent Decree mandate to comply with the Clean Water Act 
through implementation of secondary wastewater treatment standards. The 
Consent Decree compliance effort requires that OCSD undertake an 
enormous capital improvement program to construct, rehabilitate, and 
upgrade the facilities needed to comply with secondary treatment 
standards. Federal support has been provided to municipalities, 
including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston, for similar 
projects. These funds will go to meet this mandate.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Department of Education, Elementary and Secondary Education
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Hope Through Housing Foundation
  Address of Requesting Entity: 9065 Haven Avenue, Suite 100 Rancho 
Cucamonga, California 91730
  Funding Secured: $330,000
  Description of Request: These funds will be used to administer an 
after school tutoring program on site at National CORE housing 
facilities. The project will combine intensive age-appropriate academic 
tutoring with enrichment activity for children in grades K-8. In 
addition, a family literacy component and community building technical 
assistance program will strengthen the support services available to 
children and youth. The program includes tutoring each day where a 
student attends, they receive 60 minutes of small group academic 
tutoring in both math and English/language

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arts. Each learning center is a literacy-rich environment stocked with 
age appropriate books, as well as creative writing and reading 
materials. Students are encouraged to check out books, create journals, 
and engage in any type of activity that encourages them to read and 
write.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Health Resources & Services Administration
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Children's Hospital of Orange County 
at Mission
  Address of Requesting Entity: 27700 Medical Center Road, Mission 
Viejo, California 92691
  Funding Secured: $95,000
  Description of Request: Funds will be used to purchase needed 
equipment to retrofit all patient rooms on the Medical/Surgical unit 
with sleep sofas to improve the comfort and restfulness of overnight 
accommodations for parents of children in the Children's Hospital of 
Orange County at Mission. To facilitate and maximize parental and 
family involvement in patient care at CHOC at Mission, the hospital 
maintains open visiting hours and encourages parents to spend as much 
time as possible with their children, including sleeping overnight with 
their children, in the hospital. CHOC at Mission provides a family 
lounge area, two separate parent sleep rooms with bathrooms, and sleep 
accommodations for parents in each room on the general Medical/Surgical 
unit.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Federal Highway Administration, Interstate Maintenance 
Discretionary
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Orange County Transportation 
Authority
  Address of Requesting Entity: 550 South Main Street, Orange, CA 92868
  Funding Secured: $237,500
  Description of Request: Funds will be used for the examination of the 
technical feasibility of options to connect SR-91 Express Lanes with 
SR-241 and for the preliminary engineering for funding for the SR-91 
corridor and the Costa Mesa Freeway (SR-55) Interchange. The SR-91 is 
the only significant transportation facility connecting Orange County 
and Riverside County. The facility is currently operating at full 
capacity during peak hours and is critical for the movement of goods 
from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to inland destinations. 
The request is partly for examination of the technical feasibility of 
options to connect SR-91 Express Lanes with SR-241. A direct connection 
between high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes on the SR-91 and the SR-241 
toll road will provide a new travel option for SR-91 commuters and 
allow for a more balanced distribution of travel along the highly 
congested SR-91 corridor. The request is also for the preliminary 
engineering for funding for the SR-91 corridor and the Costa Mesa 
Freeway (SR-55) Interchange. Constructing this project will alleviate 
current and future congestion at the interchange of SR-91 and SR-55.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Federal Highway Administration, Transportation, Community 
and System Preservation
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Rancho Santa Margarita
  Address of Requesting Entity: 22112 El Paseo, Rancho Santa Margarita, 
California
  Funding Secured: $95,000
  Description of Request: The project will consist of removing failed 
pavement, installing new pavement in the failed areas, cold milling the 
pavement, overlaying the entire roadway surface with Asphalt Rubber Hot 
Mix, repairing the sidewalks, installing Concrete Access Ramps, 
adjusting utility manholes and water valves to grade, and installing 
new striping and traffic loops along the Antonio Parkway. The Antonio 
Parkway was constructed in the mid to late 1980s. Since that time, 
heavy use combined with the natural aging process has caused transverse 
block cracking, heaving, and shoving on its surface. A new surface 
course of asphalt rubber hot mix combined with full depth dig-out 
repairs will extend the life of the pavement another 20 years.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Department of Housing and Urban Development, Economic 
Development Initiative
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Hillview Acres Children's Home
  Address of Requesting Entity: 3683 Chino Avenue, Chino, California
  Funding Secured: $95,000
  Description of Request: This request is for construction and 
improvements to Hiliview Acres Children's Home facilities. One of the 
biggest challenges Hiliview faces today is their aging physical plant. 
The campus's relationship impact model was written and implemented in 
the 1970s. Since that time, Hiliview has continued to be progressive in 
the way they treat and care for injured children. As their success in 
taking care of abused and neglected children maintains and increases in 
strength, their facilities have weakened and no longer parallel the 
quality of their program.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Gary G. Miller
  Bill Number: H.R. 1105
  Account: Department of Housing and Urban Development, Economic 
Development Initiative
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: National Community Renaissance
  Address of Requesting Entity: 9065 Haven Avenue, Suite 100, Rancho 
Cucamonga, California
  Funding Secured: $950,000
  Description of Request: Funding will be used for the construction of 
affordable housing communities. With this funding, National Community 
Renaissance will undertake one or more large-scale neighborhood 
revitalization projects, develop or acquire and preserve over 10,000 
additional apartments in at least 10 more states nationwide, and 
establish a best-in-class non-profit Web portal, a free information 
resource that will become the go-to location for updates and 
information assistance in using affordable housing resources. National 
Community Renaissance is one of the largest nonprofit affordable 
housing development corporations in the United States. It manages 
several business lines that contribute to the development and 
preservation of high quality affordable housing throughout the country, 
including development of new affordable housing, preservation of 
existing affordable housing at risk of going to market rate, and full 
service construction management with expertise in multifamily and mixed 
use development.

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