[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 23, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1523-E1524]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. BILL SHUSTER

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 23, 2009

  Mr. SHUSTER. Madam Speaker, consistent with the Republican 
Leadership's policy on earmarks, I submit the following:
  Requesting Member: Congressman Bill Shuster (PA-9)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2647--The National Defense Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Year 2010
  FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act Projects
  Project Name: Engine Installation & Removal Vehicle (EIRV)
  Account: APN, Line 58
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: JLG Industries
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1 JLG Drive, McConnellsburg, PA 17233
  Description of Request/Justification of Federal Funding: $3,400,000 
for Engine Installation & Removal Vehicle (EIRV)
  It is my understanding that funding will be used by the United States 
Navy to procure additional EIRVs to meet current operational 
requirements.
  The purpose of the Engine Installation & Removal Vehicle (EIRV) 
program is to satisfy the operational need of the U.S. Navy and Marine 
Corps by providing a commercial off the shelf (COTS), mobile, Engine/
Propeller Installation and Removal System, with the capability of 
safely installing and removing the T56 engine and/or T56 propeller on 
and from P-3, C-2, E-2 and C-130 aircraft.
  Installation and removal of the T56 engine and propeller onto the 
respective aircraft requires relatively fine lateral and horizontal 
adjustments in order to be executed properly. To accomplish this, the 
Navy is requiring a commercially available, mobile, Engine/Propeller 
Installation and Removal System for procurement.
  The Navy is currently removing and replacing aircraft engines with an 
unsafe combination of manual tri-pod hoists, scaffolding, and 
industrial forklifts. The EIRV was chosen to reduce damage to 
equipment, injuries to workers and increase efficiencies.
  This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because procurement 
of the system will decrease damage to the engine/prop and the airframe, 
thereby decreasing downtime and increasing operational readiness.
  Project Name: Millennia Military Vehicle/Extendable Boom Fork Lift 
(MMV/EBFL)
  Account: PMC, Line 50
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: JLG Industries
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1 JLG Drive, McConnellsburg, PA 17233
  Description of Request/Justification of Federal Funding: $30,000,000 
for Millennia Military Vehicle/Extendable Boom Fork Lift (MMV/EBFL)
  It is my understanding that funding will be used by the United States 
Marine Corps to procure additional MMV units to meet current 
operational requirements.
  The Marine Corps has a requirement for an additional Millennia 
Military Vehicles/Expandable Boom Fork Lift (MMV/EBFL). The Marine 
Corps does not plan to update its current telehandler fleet until 2011, 
thus producing an unfunded requirement for the Marine Corps. The MMV 
program is a four year procurement effort by the U.S. Marine Corps to 
procure reconfigured MMV's to fulfill their advanced lifting 
requirements in handling material containers in rapid deployment 
construction and reconstruction. The MMV is an 11,000 pound rough 
terrain, self-deployable in rough terrain, manually operated forklift 
capable of operating efficiently in nuclear, biological and chemical 
environments. The MMV is capable of unloading containers located on the 
ground as well as on trailers. It is fully air transportable in C-130, 
C-17 and C-5A aircraft, fordable, and operable in all weather and night 
conditions.
  This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because the Marine 
Corps requires funding to procure additional MMV units to meet current 
operational requirements.
  Project Name: Hardmetal Epidemiology Investigation
  Account: RDA, PE # 0602105A, Line 5
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of Pittsburgh, Department 
of Biostatistics
  Address of Requesting Entity: A410 Crabtree Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 
15650
  Description of Request/Justification of Federal Funding: $7,000,000 
for Hardmetal Epidemiology Investigation
  It is my understanding that funding for this project will provide for 
an epidemiological study to determine the potential health impacts from 
workplace exposures to hardmetal powders. ``Hardmetal'' refers to metal 
composites, notably tungsten carbide with a cobalt binder, known for 
their durability and wear resistance. In 2003-2004, three governmental 
and scientific bodies designated hardmetal (i.e. tungsten carbide/
cobalt) as a possible carcinogen

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to humans. A critical review by an independent toxicological consultant 
identified significant weaknesses in the study (i.e. small study size, 
lack of reliable exposure information and the inability to control for 
potential confounding by cigarette smoking, etc.). The study also 
involved no input by industry or its consultants. Tungsten touches 
almost every product that is produced in modern manufacturing, as it is 
a common component in manufacturing equipment and materials--including 
munitions, military vehicles and other equipment. Hardmetal is used 
extensively in tooling to manufacture and maintain ordnance, missiles, 
automotive and aviation equipment, and to produce rifle bullets, 
vehicle armor, kinetic energy penetrators, missile warheads, and many 
other critical battlefield systems.
  This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because a more 
accurate and reliable study is necessary before classified carcinogens, 
like hardmetal, will be ``deselected and phased out'' of manufacturing, 
slowing the manufacturing process and making it harder, if not 
impossible, to deliver needed products to the battlefields for U.S. 
soldiers.
  Project Name: Defense Support for Civil Authorities (DSCA) for Key 
Resource Protection--South Central, PA
  Account: RDA, PE # 0602624A, Line 17
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: L. Robert Kimball & Associates
  Address of Requesting Entity: 615 West Highland Avenue, Ebensburg, PA 
15931
  Description of Request/Justification of Federal Funding: $3,000,000 
for Defense Support for Civil Authorities (DSCA) for Key Resource 
Protection--South Central, PA
  It is my understanding that the Defense Support for Civil Authorities 
(DSCA) for Key Resource Protection--South Central, PA project is part 
of efforts led by U.S. Army ARDEC at Picatinny, New Jersey combing and 
harmonizing a number of Homeland Defense and Homeland Security programs 
under the umbrella of Project National Shield (PNS). The National 
Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) mandates a coordinated approach 
to Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) protection roles 
and responsibilities for federal, state, local, tribal, and private 
sector security partners. The ability to sense, detect and respond to 
threats to CIKR will require regional communication and information 
sharing capabilities. The fundamental geospatial data needed to manage 
CIKR risk and establish the framework for assessing consequences, 
vulnerability, and threat information is available in jurisdictions 
across the country. Not available, however, are Enterprise Geographic 
Information Systems (EGIS) that span political jurisdictions, regions 
or states and can produce the comprehensive, systematic, and rational 
assessment of national or sector risk. South Central Pennsylvania 
houses a major freight transportation hub (CSX railway) and Army depot 
(Letterkenny) within miles of each other. This proposal will establish 
EGIS in South Central PA to advance NIPP objectives. Response-specific 
intelligence will provide emergency responders and homeland defense 
personnel with essential situational awareness information required to 
protect critical infrastructure.
  This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because it meets a 
critical Army need to improve Homeland Defense and Civil Support 
missions while also providing enhanced capabilities to local 
constituencies in the communications and networking side of emergency 
response. Specifically, the program represents the actual full 
deployment of a critical network that will allow local Emergency 
Management personnel and first responders to communicate as well as 
provide for a tie in to the Army's Emergency Operations Center at 
Picatinny Arsenal.
  Project Name: Cadmium Emissions Reduction--Letterkenny Army Depot
  Account: RDA, PE # 0603779A, Line 64
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Mountain Research, LLC
  Address of Requesting Entity: 825 25th Street, Altoona, PA 16601
  Description of Request/Justification of Federal Funding:
  $1,000,000 for Cadmium Emissions Reduction--Letterkenny Army Depot
  This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because this work 
will help Letterkenny Army Depot conduct environmental management 
activities in an environmentally and fiscally sound, sustainable 
manner.
  Letterkenny's unique mission, which includes manufacturing, depot 
level maintenance, and demilitarization, presents significant 
challenges to maintaining operations while achieving aggressive 
sustainability targets and goals. Specifically, this project will 
assist in addressing federal and state regulatory issues associated 
with the reduction of cadmium levels in waste water affluent outflows. 
This technology implementation will also serve as a demonstration site 
to facilitate horizontal technology transfer to surrounding 
Pennsylvania military installations, other Army depots, and 
installations across the Department of Defense.
  Project Name: AFATDS Voice Recognition and Cross Platform Speech 
Interface System
  Account: RDA, PE #0203726A, Line 147
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Szanca Solutions, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 100 East Pitt Street, Bedford, PA 15522
  Description of Request/Justification of Federal Funding:
  $2,500,000 for AFATDS Voice Recognition and Cross Platform Speech 
Interface System
  It is my understanding that funding for this project would provide 
voice activation to legacy command and control systems to improve the 
ease of use, accuracy, and timeliness of the systems. The project will 
continue the work done to bring speech controlled operations and in 
addition provide a cross-platform solution that can be integrated to a 
wide variety of military systems. Doing so will dramatically increase 
the functionality and useful life of legacy systems while decreasing 
training costs and increasing operational speed.
  This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because many of the 
Army's current command and control systems require a series of 
complicated keyboard entries to operate, making the systems slower to 
operate and prone to errors in stressful environments. This can result 
in delays providing commanders with critical information and in 
executing mission critical fire missions. This program will focus on 
solutions to those issues, allow quicker access to tactical 
information, and increase the speed in which targets can be fired.
  Project Name: ALC Logistics Integration Environment
  Account: RDAF, PE #0708611F, Line 233
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: IS2 Technologies, Inc.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 3018 Pleasant Valley Blvd., Altoona, PA 
16602
  Description of Request/Justification of Federal Funding:
  $2,000,000 for ALC Logistics Integration Environment
  It is my understanding that this project will develop a Logistics 
Integration Environment using COTS software that facilitates pulling 
together teams of people to optimize battlefield readiness and improve 
the availability of aircraft and associated subsystems.
  This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because the Air 
Force Logistics Centers lack an integrated data environment for 
service, repair, and overall logistics. Development and deployment of 
the Logistics Information Environment would:
  Develop and implement a collaborative logistics management solution 
that would provide a single source of data for the maintainers, supply 
and battlefield environments;
  Provide optimized predictive logistics modeling for critical 
supportability factors such as spare parts, maintenance schedules, and 
survivability under fire;
  Capture aircraft performance information that may be used to drive 
further improvements in survivability;
  Allow for real-time collaboration across the R&D, acquisition, 
logistics, and warfighter communities; and
  Reduce costs by reducing the time required to research and collect 
the engineering and logistics data necessary to support unplanned/
unscheduled depot-level maintenance requirements.
  Benefits to our warfighting capability would be:
  Mission readiness: Improve the readiness of rapidly deployed 
aircraft;
  Cost Avoidance: Minimize the cost and complexity of the aircraft 
logistics footprint; and
  Innovation: Allow for accelerated innovation to aircraft and 
subsystems, continuously improving their operational performance and 
survivability.
  Additional benefits would include composite data that can be used to 
formalize and distribute Interactive Electric Technical Manuals (IETM) 
and dynamic work cards for maintenance planning and instructions.

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