[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 104 (Monday, July 13, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1737-E1739]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. KEN CALVERT

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 13, 2009

  Mr. CALVERT. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding earmarks that I requested on behalf of local government 
entities in my congressional district in conjunction with the Fiscal 
Year 2010 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Norco
  Address of Requesting Entity: 2870 Clark Avenue, Norco, CA 92860
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $750,000 for the City of 
Norco's Waste-to-Energy Facility. Last year, a preliminary feasibility 
study prepared for the City of Norco showed that thermal conversion of 
horse manure and bedding material into electricity appears to be a 
viable proposition, both technologically and financially. The city is 
now taking steps towards a contract for the design and construction of 
a manure-to-energy facility. The requested funding will allow the city 
to design and engineer the project. When complete, the project will 
allow the city to reduce its carbon footprint by providing an 
environmentally friendly ``green'' source of renewable energy to 
citizens of Norco and surrounding communities. The City of Norco will 
provide the non-federal cost-share of the project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Water and Related Resources
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Inland Empire Utilities Agency
  Address of Requesting Entity: 6075 Kimball Avenue, Chino, CA 91708
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $100,000 for the Inland Empire 
Utilities Agency's Inland Empire Regional Water Recycling Project. The 
Inland

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Empire Regional Water Recycling Project will produce 100,000 acre-feet 
of recycled water per year when the project is complete. The water will 
be used for outdoor irrigation, industrial processes and recharging 
groundwater basins, thereby serving the needs of 800,000 current 
residents in the Inland Empire. The requested funding will be allocated 
to engineering design and construction of the project. The non-federal 
funding will be provided by the Inland Empire Utilities Agency.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Construction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 
Angeles District
  Address of Requesting Entity: 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 980, Los 
Angeles, CA 90017
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $2,000,000 for the Army Corps 
of Engineers' Murrieta Creek project. Murrieta Creek poses a severe 
flood threat to the cities of Murrieta and Temecula, where overflow 
flooding from this undersized creek with a tributary watershed of over 
220 square miles has periodically wreaked havoc, most recently in 1993 
when the public and private sectors incurred flood-related damages of 
nearly $20 million, and nearby Camp Pendleton Marine Base suffered $88 
million in damages. The project, developed jointly by the Corps of 
Engineers and the local sponsor, not only provides flood protection for 
these two communities, but also includes other elements such as 
environmental restoration and recreation that will serve as the 
lynchpin for regional economic development. The requested funding will 
be used to award and construct the project's entire Phase II reach, 
which includes protection for Old Town Temecula, as well as to complete 
the Design Documentation Report (DDR) and the preparation of plans and 
specifications for Phase III's Multi-Purpose Detention Basin.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Water and Related Resources
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Orange County Water District
  Address of Requesting Entity: 18700 Ward Street, Fountain Valley, CA 
92708
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $100,000 for the Orange County 
Water District's Orange County Regional Water Reclamation Project. The 
Orange County Water District diverts secondary treated waste water from 
the Orange County Sanitation District that would otherwise be disposed 
of in the ocean. The waste water is highly treated using 
microfiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultra violet light with hydrogen 
peroxide. Currently, half of the collected water is injected into 
groundwater basin along the coast to create a barrier preventing 
seawater from intruding our precious drinking water supplies and is 
pumped to the District recharge basins for percolation into the 
groundwater basin. The project would expand the capacity of the current 
plant by an additional 18 million gallons per day. Additional 
microfiltration, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet light treatment 
equipment would be purchased and installed. A significant portion of 
the infrastructure has already been constructed to accommodate an 
expansion. This includes the yard piping, pump stations, and the 
electrical backbone. When the Ground Water Replenishment System was 
designed and constructed, all piping, facilities, electrical systems, 
and the site were designed for an ultimate capacity of 130 million 
gallons per day.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Water and Related Resources
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Western Municipal Water District
  Address of Requesting Entity: 450 Alessandro Boulevard, Riverside, CA 
92508
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $1,000,000 for the Western 
Municipal Water District's Riverside-Corona Feeder project. The 
Riverside-Corona Feeder project captures and stores new water to 
increase firm water supplies, reduce water costs and improve water 
quality as well as reduces regional dependence upon increasingly 
unreliable imported supplies from the State Water Project, the Colorado 
River and the northern Bay-Delta. The project will also be equipped to 
clean plumes of perchlorate and VOCs in the Bunker Hill basin, and will 
provide a link among groundwater basins in the region. In addition to 
the Bunker Hill Basin, the Feeder will allow water supplies to be 
conjunctively used in the Chino, Riverside and Arlington groundwater 
basins, further enhancing the ability of the region to withstand 
droughts and providing a mechanism to allow treatment and recovery of 
poor quality groundwater found in these basins.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Investigations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 
Angeles District
  Address of Requesting Entity: 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 980, Los 
Angeles, CA 90017
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $221,000 for the Army Corps of 
Engineers' Riverside County Special Area Management Plan. The Corps is 
developing the nation's largest Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) for 
both the San Jacinto and Upper Santa Margarita Watersheds, which by 
assisting federal, state and local agencies with their decision making 
and permitting authority, will position those agencies to protect, 
restore and enhance aquatic resources while also accommodating various 
types of development activities and public infrastructure projects. The 
Corps has already made significant progress on a ``Landscape Level 
Aquatic Resource Delineation'' and ``Functional Assessment'' to help in 
determining the value of area waters and wetlands. Once completed, the 
plan will not only streamline the permitting process to foster regional 
economic development, but it will also create and protect woodlands, 
wetlands, freshwater marshes, vernal pools, streams, lakes and rivers. 
The Corps had developed alternatives incorporating Riverside County's 
previously approved Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan and the 
General Plan and the information learned from the Landscape Level 
Delineation and Functional Assessments. They have also started the 
process of preparing environmental documents for NEPA and CEQA 
compliance. The requested funding will be used to complete the EIR/EIS, 
complete the development of the Abbreviated Permits and complete the 
Resource Conservation Plan to adequately mitigate for impacts to 
jurisdictional waters authorized through the issuance of SAMP permits.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Investigations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 
Angeles District
  Address of Requesting Entity: 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 980, Los 
Angeles, CA 90017
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $100,000 for the Army Corps of 
Engineers' San Clemente Shoreline project. Erosion of the protective 
beach in San Clemente has caused much of the study area to have little 
if any beach, particularly during the winter season. Storm induced 
waves have become a serious threat over the past several years to City 
facilities, the Lossan railroad, commercial properties, infrastructure, 
and coastal residencies. The public components of these facilities 
threatened by erosion and coastal storms have a value of over $10 
million. Also, there have been emergency revetments placed in several 
areas along the study area to prevent damage to the railroad from 
storms. It is estimated that the railroad will be required to spend 
$14-$20 million in the future to protect the rail line. Restoration of 
a protective beach will reduce these costs for protection. The 
requested funding will allow the Corps of Engineers to complete work on 
the feasibility study and move towards the project's design.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Construction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 
Angeles District
  Address of Requesting Entity: 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 980, Los 
Angeles, CA 90017
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $582,000 for the Army Corps of 
Engineers' San Juan Creek, South Orange County, project. The Corps of 
Engineers began the San Juan Creek Watershed Feasibility Study in 1998 
and the initial study phase was completed in 2003. The project has now 
moved into what the Corps calls a ``spin-off'' study. The spin-off 
study is a more focused and narrowly defined study of flood control and 
ecosystem restoration alternatives in the very bottom of the watershed 
in the cities of Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano. With sufficient 
federal appropriations in FY2010 and FY2011, the study will be 
completed. The project has taken on additional importance with the 
failure of 1,500 linear feet of concrete channel lining on January 9, 
2005. About 3,200 residents in the Cities of Dana Point and San Juan 
Capistrano were evacuated in the early morning hours. The County of 
Orange declared an emergency and together with the Corps of Engineers 
placed large rock on the exposed earthen slope as a temporary repair.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Construction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 
Angeles District

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  Address of Requesting Entity: 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 980, Los 
Angeles, CA 90017
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $52,193,000 for the Army Corps 
of Engineers' Santa Ana River Mainstem project. The Santa Ana River 
Mainstem Project is being constructed to address what the Corps of 
Engineers identified in the 1980s as ``the worst flood threat west of 
the Mississippi River''--which then impacted three million people and 
110,000 acres located in the three Southern California counties of 
Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino, with estimated loss of 3,000 
lives and $15 billion in economic losses (1987-8 price levels). To 
date, the Federal Government and the flood control districts of the 
impacted counties have spent over $1 billion on the Project. Continued 
funding is necessary to complete the Project and ensure the level of 
protection as planned. Specifically, funding is needed to complete the 
Reach 9 component, which is the last section of the Santa Ana River, 
between Prado Dam and the Pacific Ocean, to be improved as part of the 
project. Until the Reach 9 channel and levee improvements are 
completed, this reach of the river will not be able to convey the 
maximum 30,000 cubic feet per second outflow from the new Prado Dam 
outlet works. The completion of Reach 9 is necessary to provide the 
level of protection envisioned by the authorized project. The overflow 
from Reach 9 would destroy local businesses, commercial properties and 
homes and the adjacent sections of the State 91 freeway, a major 
transportation artery in the region. Interior dikes in the Prado Dam 
flood control basin and the construction of a new Prado Dam spillway 
are additional components of the project that must be funded.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Ken Calvert
  Account: Construction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 
Angeles
  District Address of Requesting Entity: 915 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 980, 
Los Angeles, CA 90017
  Description of Request: The Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act provides $800,000 for the Army Corps of 
Engineers' Seven Oaks Dam Water Conservation Study. The requested 
funding would allow the Corps of Engineers to perform much needed 
studies and amend the water control plan to permit Seven Oaks Dam to be 
used for water conservation. The winter rains of 2005 demonstrated 
beyond question that water conservation at Seven Oaks Dam can provide a 
major supplemental source of water to for this increasingly water-short 
region. Specifically, the studies will update the environmental 
documents relating to water conservation at Seven Oaks. The studies 
will also address the problem of anaerobic conditions that developed 
during the summer of 2004 so as to ensure that such conditions do not 
contaminate water stored for human consumption in the future.

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