[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 106 (Wednesday, July 15, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1782]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                         HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 15, 2009

  Mr. WITTMAN. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding the earmark I received as part of H.R. 3183, Energy and Water 
Appropriations bill for FY 2010.
  Project Name/Amount: Sustainable Algal Energy Production and 
Environmental Remediation, $500,000
  Requested by: Robert J. Wittman
  Intended Recipient of Funds/Grantee: College of William and Mary P.O. 
Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
  Project description and explanation of the request: Algae yields 
substantial advantages over other bio-fuel crops toward the combined 
goals of renewability, sustainability, affordability, and environmental 
compatibility in an energy sustainable economy. A multi-disciplinary 
program plan and partnership are in development for a system to grow, 
harvest, and process wild algae into feedstock, to chemically convert 
the feedstock into fuels, and then to distribute the native algae-
derived fuels to consumers. This program will be developed under 
leadership of the College of William and Mary (CWM), acting through its 
Virginia Institute for Marine Science (VIMS), the nation's third 
largest marine science organization, and the premier institute for 
coastal and estuary studies, working with the College's William and 
Mary Research Institute (WMRI), which provides access to 570 faculty 
members across the schools of the main campus. The envisioned 
commercial process has the potential to produce significantly higher 
efficiencies than other bio-fuel systems in development, based on 
mature, proven algae cultivation capabilities, while avoiding many land 
use issues of alternative algal methods. The target consumers of these 
fuels include all air and ground transportation and power production 
systems. This project will secure a number of new jobs for the district 
in the execution of the work, but the major benefits of bringing algal 
biofuels to the coast of Virginia will have an enormous impact on the 
state's economy while remediating long-standing environmental problems 
caused by nutrients in the watershed, rivers and estuarial run-off into 
the Chesapeake Bay. Funding will support production of 40 kg of Algal 
Oil and 200 kg of Algal Carbohydrate. Funding will also support design, 
development, and operation of a portable, water based, self contained 
harvesting system. Additionally, funding would develop a site screening 
and production forecasting computer model
  Project Name/Amount: Regional Sediment Management Demonstration 
Program: Mathews County, VA, $238,000
  Requested by: Robert J. Wittman
  Intended Recipient of Funds/Grantee: Norfolk District, Army Corps of 
Engineers 803 Front Street Norfolk, VA 23510
  Project description and explanation of the request: Continue 
construction a sediment budget for the Mathews County, VA area and 
investigate utilization of dredge material from several local/adjacent 
federal navigation channels to address shoreline conditions along the 
western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The project is authorized by PL 
110-114 Sec. 2037.
  Project Name/Amount: Winter Harbor, Mathews County, VA, $1,190,000
  Requested by: Robert J. Wittman
  Intended Recipient of Funds/Grantee: Norfolk District, Army Corps of 
Engineers 803 Front Street Norfolk, VA 23510
  Project description and explanation of the request: Completion of 
authorized maintenance dredging activities authorized under the River 
and Harbor Act of 17 May 1950.

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