[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 25, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E761-E763]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                        HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 25, 2009

  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Speaker, pursuant to Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following Information 
regarding earmarks I received as part of H.R. 1109, The Omnibus 
Appropriations Act, 2009.
  Project Name: Police Department Photography Lab Upgrades for the City 
of Miami
  Amount Funded: $400,000
  Account: COPS Law Enforcement Technology
  Contact: Pedro G. Hernandez, City Manager, City of Miami
  Address: 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida 33143
  Description: The City of Miami Police Department Photo Lab Upgrades 
Project will upgrade and digitize the City's police department photo 
lab. Funds will be used to incorporate digital cameras, memory card 
readers and a digital photographic laboratory system which will replace 
the antiquated film technology that is currently in use. Funding for 
photo lab upgrades will facilitate the investigative and prosecutorial 
efforts of the law enforcement community in the City of Miami, with 
national crime fighting implications that extend beyond Southern 
Florida in circumstances when fugitives flee the City to avoid 
prosecution.
  Project Name: Miami Beach After School Gang and Drug Prevention 
Program
  Amount Funded: $200,000
  Account: OJP--Bryne Discretionary Grants
  Contact: Kevin Crowder, City of Miami Beach
  Address: 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
  Description: Continued After-School and summer programs ensure youth 
``growing-up'' within the system. These youth are less likely to 
entertain outside and detrimental participation in other unsupervised 
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involvement in gangs and/or drugs. Participation in the recently 
created Teen Intervention Program in North Beach has increased 
dramatically during the past year, as have the various programmatic 
offerings by the City. City of Miami Beach local funding is $642,167, 
or 23% of the program cost. Justification for use of federal taxpayer 
dollars.
  Project Name: Life-Management Skill Intervention Program for At-Risk 
Youth
  Amount Funded: $300,000
  Account: OJP--Juvenile Justice
  Contact: Susan Benson, ARISE Foundation
  Address: 824 U.S. Highway 1, Suite 420, North Palm Beach, Florida 
33408
  Description: During 2006-07 Florida committed 7,187 juvenile 
offenders to residential delinquent treatment facilities. The 
Department of Juvenile Justice wants to increase their life chances 
according to the Models of Change (Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice). 
ARISE provides juvenile, justice facilities with specialized staff 
training and its unique curricula designed specifically for populations 
reading at approximately a third grade level. With over 260 easy-to-
administer ARISE life-management lessons, ARISE materials contain vital 
information necessary for reducing recidivism. The ARISE program 
provides both staff training and educational materials for teaching 
life lessons to incarcerated youth through interactive methods and help 
develop critical thinking skills needed to break the cycle of violence 
and crime that would otherwise doom many of these juvenile offenders to 
tragic lives of gang involvement, crime, drugs, disease and poverty.
  Due to inherent problems staff have in dealing with incarcerated high 
risk youth, ARISE will expand its training program for Juvenile Care 
and Detention Officers in Florida's Juvenile Justice facilities, by 
introducing additional training topics such as anger management, non-
judgmental listening and conflict resolution. This training will be 
directed at reducing staff on youth conflict, and severe turnover of 
staff.
  Project Name: City of Coral Gables Wastewater Infrastructure 
Improvements
  Amount Funded: $500,000
  Account: EPA-STAG Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
  Contact: Alberto Delgado, Department of Public Works, City of Coral 
Gables
  Address: 405 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables, Florida 33144
  Description: The project meets the STAG match requirement. Funding 
would be used to make state-mandated upgrades to the City's wastewater 
infrastructure.
  Project Name: Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements
  Amounted Funded: $2,392,000
  Account: Corps of Engineers, Construction
  Contact: Clyde Burnett, City Manager, City of Marathon
  Address: 9805 Overseas Highway, Marathon, Florida 33050
  Description: The Florida Keys are required to meet rigid wastewater 
and stormwater management restrictions as well as near shore water 
quality and environmental protection standards.
  Project Name: Miami Museum of Science Renewable Energy Research 
Project
  Amount Funded: $713,625
  Account: Department of Energy, EERE
  Contact: Gillian Thomas, President and CEO, Miami Museum of Science
  Address: 3280 S. Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida 33122
  Description: Funding is requested for a research and development 
program aimed at enhancing understanding by Miami-Dade residents of 
programs related to alternative energy and energy efficiency 
technologies, with a special emphasis on Hispanic and Haitian 
communities.
  Project Name: Miami Harbor Channel Dredging
  Amount Funded: $478,000
  Account: Corps of Engineers, O&M
  Contact: Eric Olafson, Assistant Director, Miami-Dade County
  Address: 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
  Description: This funding request is for the first phase of 
implementation, which includes the design, preparation of plans and 
specifications for bidding. Miami-Dade County is also seeking an 
additional source of PED funds through utilizing the funds that will be 
restored to the project, once the Port of Miami reimburses the Army 
Corps for its share of the costs of the General Reevaluation Report 
(GRR). The Chief of Engineers has recommended the deepening project to 
50-52 feet and Congress has authorized the project (Title I, Water 
Resources Development Act of 2007).
  Project: Intracoastal Waterway, Jacksonville to Miami, Florida
  Amount Funded: $4,019,000
  Account: Corps of Engineers, O&M
  Contact: David Roach, Executive Director, Florida Inland Navigation 
District
  Address: 1314 Marcinski Road, Jupiter, Florida 33477
  Description: Funds would be used to dredge the IWW in two locations: 
(1) Matanzas Inlet (St. Johns County) and in the vicinity of St. 
Augustine. In addition, funds would be used to (1) restore a Dredged 
Material Management Area in St. Johns County and (2) construct a 
Dredged Material Management Area in Indian River County. The 
organization does not have a local match requirement with the Corps of 
Engineers.
  Project: Miami River Maintenance Dredging Project
  Amount Funded: $10,043,000
  Account: Corps of Engineers, O&M
  Contact: Eric Olafson, Assistant Director, Miami-Dade County
  Address: 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
  Description: This request is for the final phase of the Miami River 
Dredging Project to restore authorized depth and width to the 
navigation channel. This project, funded by the US Army Corps of 
Engineers with a coalition of local sponsors led by Miami-Dade County, 
removes contaminated sediments from the Miami River, Florida's 4th 
largest port with an economic value of $4 billion. The local sponsor 
has exceeded all match requirements.
  Project: Lower Keys Shuttle Bus Facilities
  Amount Funded: $950,000
  Account: Transportation, Bus and Bus Facilities
  Contact: Jim Scholl, City Manager, City of Key West
  Address: 525 Angela Street, Key West, Florida 33140
  Description: Federal funds will assist the City in its efforts to 
improve the City's bus facilities. Specifically, funding will provide a 
modern maintenance facility to assist in improved bus facilities as 
well as passenger amenities such as waiting areas, bus transfer areas 
and ticketing areas
  Project: Atlantic Greenway Corridor Netowork
  Amount Funded: $570,000
  Account: Transportation, TCSP
  Contact: Kevin Crowder, City of Miami Beach
  Address: 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
  Description: Through the development of the Atlantic Corridor 
Greenway Network, the City of Miami Beach is creating a regional 
alternative transportation network which will interconnect key 
intermodal centers, area business districts, cultural/tourism centers, 
residential neighborhoods, parking facilities, parks, schools and the 
beaches. The Network will be comprised of a citywide system of bicycle/
pedestrian accessways, enhanced public transit facilities, expanded bus 
service and innovative regional parking improvement programs.
  Project: Little Venice Road Improvement Project, Phase II
  Amount Funded: $95,000
  Account: Transportation, TCSP
  Contact: Clyde Burnett, City Manager, City of Marathon
  Address: 9805 Overseas Highway, Marathon, Florida 33050
  Description: The proposed project includes the installation of 
drainage and retention structures to minimize the destructive impacts 
from serious weather events. Additionally, the project proposes the 
installation of an asphaltic overlay for all road surfaces in the 
immediate area. This area constitutes 95th Streets to 117th Street 
south of the highway and connecting cross streets.
  Project: Pedestrian Bridges in Coral Gables, Florida
  Amount Funded: $142,500
  Account: HUD, EDI
  Contact: Maria Jimenez, Interim City Manager, City of Coral Gables
  Address: 405 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables, Florida 33144
  Description: The requested federal funding will be used to build 
pedestrian bridges next to the Hardee, Granada and Maynada bridges 
where vehicular traffic has created safety concerns for crossing 
pedestrians and cyclists. These new bridges will allow for more 
efficient and safer traffic flow throughout the City. Improved 
pedestrian safety along busy roadways in the City of Coral Gables will 
be the benefit of this project.
  Project: Barry University Community Health and Minority Medicine 
Project
  Amount Funded: $95,000
  Account: DOE-Higher Education
  Contact: Ann Paton, VP for Institutional Advancement
  Address: 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida 33161
  Description: Funding will be utilized to expand current lab 
facilities at Barry University's center for community health.
  Project: Jackson Health System Facilities and Equipment
  Amount Funded: $190,000
  Account: HHS-HRSA
  Contact: Jeanette Nunez, VP
  Address: 1611 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136
  Description: Funding will be used to upgrade Jackson Health System's 
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technology infrastructure. Jackson is a fully integrated health care 
system with 3 major hospitals, 12 primary care centers, 16 school-based 
clinics, a mental health facility, 2 mobile health vans and a major 
health plan. Jackson is also the primary safety net provider in Miami-
Dade County.
  Project: Mercy Hospital Equipment Upgrades
  Amount Funded: $95,000
  Account: HHS-HRSA
  Contact: Lois Blume, Grants Coordinator, Mercy Foundation
  Address: 3663 South Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida 33133
  Description: Mercy Hospital in Miami is seeking funding to upgrade 
equipment in three key healthcare areas: advanced cardiac video imaging 
technology, cardiac mapping technology, anesthesia machines, and a 
sterilization machine for surgical equipment.
  Project: Miami-Dade College Medical Center Nursing Program Equipment
  Amount Funded: $95,000
  Account: HHS-HRSA
  Contact: Joe Pena, Director of Federal Relations
  Address: 300 NW 2nd Avenue, Suite 1402, Miami, Florida 33132
  Description: To address a growing demand for healthcare 
professionals, Miami Dade College (MDC) School of Nursing requires 
additional programs and advanced training equipment in order to expand 
their successful nursing program.

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