[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 129 (Monday, September 14, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2249-E2250]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. DENNY REHBERG

                               of montana

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 14, 2009

  Mr. REHBERG. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding earmarks I received as part of H.R. 3183--Energy and Water 
Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010.
   Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Bureau of Reclamation--Water and Related Resources
  Requesting Entity: North Central Montana Regional Water Authority, 48 
Second Avenue, Suite 202, Havre, MT 59501
  Description: Ultimately, the project will deliver water to roughly 
30,000 Montanans living in a large, roughly rectangular region of 
Montana that is about 150 miles east to west and 70 miles north to 
south. Part of the Project includes providing infrastructure to pipe 
water to the Rocky Boy's Reservation. The Authority conducted public 
hearings for each of its member entities. In total over forty-five 
public hearing were held. Based on this outreach, all the member 
entities reaffirmed their participation in the Authority. They include: 
Town of Big Sandy, Brady County Water & Sewer District, Town of 
Chester, City of Conrad, City of Cut Bank, Devon Water Inc., Town of 
Dutton, Galata County Water District, Hill County Water District 
(includes the communities of Kremlin, Gildford, Hingham, Rudyard, 
Inverness, Joplin), City of Havre, Town of Kevin, Loma County Water 
District, North Havre County Water District, Oilmont County Water 
District, Sage Creek County Water District, City of Shelby, South 
Chester County Water District, Town of Sunburst, Sweetgrass Community 
Water District, Tiber County Water District.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Bureau of Reclamation--Water and Related Resources
  Requesting Entity: Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes and Dry Prairie Rural 
Water, P.O. Box 1027, Poplar, MT 59255
  Description: FY 2010 funds will be used by the Assiniboine and Sioux 
Tribes to complete the regional water treatment plant, intake and 
extend the main transmission pipelines to Poplar and Wolf Point. When 
water reaches Poplar, it will serve the third largest community in the 
project and replace existing water supplies, threatened by Brine Plume 
contamination, with Missouri River water treated to national drinking 
water standards. Dry Prairie will build distribution system in Valley 
County pursuant to a recently completed agreement with Boeing to use 
its water system at St. Marie until the regional water treatment plant 
and main transmission line reaches Valley County. This will improve 
water supplies for about 200 rural users and the Town of Nashua.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Bureau of Reclamation--Water and Related Resources
  Requesting Entity: Saint Mary Rehabilitation Working Group, 74 Fourth 
Street N, Glasgow, MT 59230
  Description: This project initiates the rehabilitation and 
construction of the St. Mary Diversion & Conveyance Works in Glacier 
County MT, identified in Section 5103 of the 2007 Water Resources 
Development Act (P.L. 110-114). This funding would be used to 
rehabilitate the aging St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works before 
the system suffers a catastrophic failure.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Department of Energy--Fossil Energy R&D
  Requesting Entity: Center for Zero Emissions Research and Technology, 
Montana State University-Bozeman, 207 Montana Hall, Bozeman, MT 59717
  Description: The U.S.'s heavy reliance on foreign energy sources is 
an obvious national security issue that could be ameliorated if our 
ample national coal reserves could be used with a less damaging effect 
on the environment. U.S. coal reserves are projected to be capable of 
providing more than 200 years of the nation's energy needs, but current 
technologies do not sufficiently reduce or eliminate

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greenhouse gases and their impact on the environments. The Center for 
Zero Emissions Research and Technology focuses on developing and 
validating zero emission technologies for clean energy production from 
fossil fuels. This would provide an economic benefit in coal and power 
producing states, reduce reliance on foreign energy sources, and 
contribute to a better environment.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Department of Energy--EERE
  Requesting Entity: Flathead Electric Cooperative, 2510 U.S. Highway 2 
East, Kalispell, MT 59901
  Description: Funding would be used to extend the geothermal test well 
to power-generation depths to determine viability of the resource for a 
future renewable energy source. The Hot Springs area in Lake County, 
Montana is a proven source for geothermal. The hot water is used as a 
spa. Shallow wells indicate that the source goes deeper. Preliminary 
work in the 1980s drilled to 250 feet. The cognizant hydrologist 
believes that a hot water source which is hot enough for geothermal 
power production lies deeper in the earth at this spot. Flathead 
Electric would like to continue drilling this well to verify the 
potential source for development. Geothermal power is a valuable source 
of distributed, renewable power for this area.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Corps of Engineers--Construction
  Requesting Entity: Rural Montana Water Projects. Allocation of 
projects and activities within the Corps of Engineers Construction 
account.
  Description: The entities to receive funding for this project are 
various towns, cities and counties across the state of Montana.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Department of Energy--EERE
  Requesting Entity: The Montana Physical Sciences Foundation, 130 
North Main, Butte, MT 59701
  Description: Funding would be used for research that will provide an 
alternative means to make carbon-neutral fuel from abundant biomass 
waste products such as straw, wood mill waste, as well as non-food 
crops such as switch grass, for the production of renewable fuels.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Corps of Engineers--Investigations
  Requesting Entity: Yellowstone River Conservation District Council, 
1371 Rimtop Drive, Billings, MT 59105
  Description: The purpose of the project is to better the management 
of the Yellowstone River, its waters and adjacent lands. The project 
study products have already been used to: (1) develop best management 
practices to control riparian spread of Russian olive, including 
bringing in demonstrations of equipment and practices best suited for 
removing this negatively impacting invasive plant; (2) be a catalyst 
for fish passage projects on the Yellowstone main stem and the Tongue 
River. These projects have both increased habitat for warm water fish 
in the lower Yellowstone and improved/promised improvement of 
irrigation infrastructure by stabilizing diversion structures and/or 
helping purchase pumps and pump equipment; (3) develop a method to 
understand how far the Yellowstone river channel is likely to migrate 
through the next 50 years, allowing better planning for safe riverside 
development; and (4) improve conditions for the endangered pallid 
sturgeon while preserving and improving irrigation facilities.
  Requesting Member: Hon. Denny Rehberg
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Corps of Engineers--Construction
  Requesting Entity: Yellowstone River Intake Irrigation Diversion Fish 
Passage (Missouri River Fish Mitigation), The Nature Conservancy, 2721 
2nd Ave N, Suite 310, Billings, MT 59101
  Description: The Lower Yellowstone Project at Intake is a Bureau of 
Reclamation irrigation project located on the Yellowstone River. The 
Corps of Engineers received authority to utilize Missouri River 
Recovery Program funds to proceed with the Lower Yellowstone Project 
through WRDA 2007. The Yellowstone River is the largest tributary to 
the Missouri River and historically served as native habitat to pallid 
sturgeon. Providing fish passage at Intake Diversion Dam will open up a 
minimum of 165 river miles of additional pallid sturgeon habitat.

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