[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 113 (Friday, July 24, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1926-E1927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                       HON. CHRISTOPHER JOHN LEE

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 23, 2009

  Mr. LEE of New York. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican 
Leadership standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following 
information regarding earmarks I received as part of the FY10 Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: Department of Health & Human Services--Health Resources and 
Services Administration--Health Facilities and Services
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Unity Health System
  Address of Requesting Entity: 89 Genesee Street, Rochester, NY 14611
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $800,000 to develop a 
set of clinical applications to support the goal of enhancing both the 
quality and the delivery of care within Unity Health System. Will also 
expedite the implementation of a practice management and ambulatory 
electronic record system that enables connectivity between the Unity 
Medical Group physician offices.
  Of the total project amount, approximately 100 percent is for 
implementation of information technology.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293 Account: Department of Education--Higher 
Education
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Niagara County Community College
  Address of Requesting Entity: 3111 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, 
NY 14132
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $275,000 to provide 
additional and updated technology for the Learning Commons project, 
including SMART classrooms and individual workstations. Of the total 
project amount, approximately 100 percent is for equipment. By 
establishing the Learning Commons, the project will improve student 
success and create an educated workforce by improving access to 
technology, enhancing learning, and providing a relevant education for 
graduating students across all disciplines. NCCC has seen increased 
enrollment, a number of whom are economically disadvantaged, who need 
this new technology for success in college.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293 Account: Department of Education--Higher 
Education
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Monroe Community College
  Address of Requesting Entity: 100 East Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 
14623
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $325,000 to establish a 
Medical Laboratory Technicians (MLTs) program at the community college. 
Will establish the curriculum, move it through accreditation process, 
and recruit its first students.
  Of the total amount, $272,025 (83.7 percent) is for personnel; $4,550 
(1.4 percent) is for supplies; $28,600 (8.8 percent) is for equipment; 
$1,625 (.5 percent) is for travel; and $18,200 (5.6 percent) is for 
minor renovations.
  The establishment of a curriculum to prepare Medical Lab Technicians 
for licensure to meet new New York State requirements to enter the 
medical profession.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: Department of Health & Human Services--Health Resources and 
Services Administration--Health Facilities and Services
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Kaleida Health
  Address of Requesting Entity: 100 High Street, Buffalo, NY 14203
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $300,000 to create a 
new academically-oriented medical, the Global Vascular Institute, to 
integrate key programs and personnel of Buffalo General Hospital and 
Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital pursuant to recommendations of 
the Berger Commission.
  Of the total amount, 100 percent is for equipment.
  The project will relocate important clinical services and programs 
from Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital to the Global Vascular 
Institute (GVI) at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. This will 
greatly strengthen and improve the quality of health care services in 
Western New York and provide an important center for medical research 
and education for physicians.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: Department of Education--Higher Education Legal
  Name of Requesting Entity: State University of New York at Geneseo
  Address of Requesting Entity: Erwin 218, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 
14454
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $500,000 for the 
purchase of a Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer 
for SUNY Geneseo's Integrated Science Center.
  Of the total amount, 100 percent is for purchase and installation of 
equipment.
  This instrument will replace an aging spectrometer at the College 
thus allowing Geneseo to continue attracting competitive research 
grants, training students in critical fields of science and technology, 
and contribute to economic development efforts in the region.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: Department of Education--Higher Education Legal
  Name of Requesting Entity: Canisius College
  Address of Requesting Entity: 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14208
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $400,000 to help with 
equipment costs for the new science center and office complex for 
Canisius College. The new center will include interdisciplinary 
research laboratories to enable the college to develop new programs in 
bioinformatics, quantitative science, cellular molecular biology, 
analytical chemistry and neurosciences. The project will partner with 
the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
  Of the total amount, 100 percent is for renovation and equipment. As 
part of the college's master plan, the establishment of the science 
center will allow the college to consolidate all its science programs 
in one building. This important capital project will add the community 
investment at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and help Cansius 
College, which is recognized as one of the top universities for its 
undergraduate science programs.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: Department of Education/National Projects--Innovation and 
Improvement/Reach Out and Read authorized under the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Reach Out and Read National Center
  Address of Requesting Entity: 56 Roland Street, Boston, MA 02129
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $4,965,000. Reach Out 
and Read is a national program that promotes literacy and language 
development in infants and young children, targeting disadvantage and 
poor children and families. Through fifteen years of peer-reviewed and 
published research, an extensive body of documentation now clearly 
demonstrates the importance of promoting early language and literacy 
skills so that children have the essential reading skills to begin 
school successfully. Yet today, a large number of children do not 
receive the necessary support and assistance to develop these skills 
and begin kindergarten read to learn.
  To close this gap, the federal government provides funding for a 
variety of literacy programs and strategies that reach children and 
parents, and the professionals who interact with them. ROR has proven 
to be among the most effective strategies to promote early language and 
literacy development and school readiness: pediatricians and other 
healthcare providers guide and encourage parents to read aloud to their 
children from their earliest years of their life, and send them home 
from each doctor visit with books and a prescription to read together.
  Currently, nearly 50,000 doctors and nurses have been trained in 
ROR's proven strategies, and more than 3,500 clinics and hospitals 
nationwide are implementing the program, reaching more than 25 percent 
of America's at-risk-children. Funding provided by Congress through the 
U.S. Department of Education has been matched by tens of millions of 
dollars from the private sector and state governments.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Christopher Lee (NY-26)
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: Department of Education/National Projects--Innovation and 
Improvement/Reading is Fundamental authorized under the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
  Address of Requesting Entity: 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20009
  Description of Request: Provide an earmark of $24,803,000. RIF 
enhances child literacy by providing millions of underserved children 
with free books for personal ownership and reading encouragement from 
the more than 18,000 locations throughout all fifty states, Washington, 
D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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