[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 129 (Monday, September 14, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2250-E2251]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. CLIFF STEARNS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 14, 2009

  Mr. STEARNS. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding earmarks I have received in the Defense Appropriations Act, 
the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriaiotns Act 
and the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations 
Act.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Account: OP,A
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Florida National Guard
  Address of Requesting Entity: 82 Marine Street, St. Augustine, FL 
32084
  Description of Request: I have secured $5,000,000 by the Florida 
National Guard at Camp Blanding to install a Regional Emergency 
Response Network that would provide cellular service during the crucial 
hours after a disaster occurs. This would allow first responders to 
communicate with already existing hand held equipment thus providing a 
much quicker and focused coordinated recovery effort. I certify that 
neither I nor my spouse has any financial interest in this project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Account: RDTE,A
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Nanotherapeutics
  Address of Requesting Entity: 13859 Progress Boulevard, Suite 300, 
Alachua, FL 32615
  Description of Request: I have secured $2,000,000 for 
Nanotherapeutics to evaluate NanoFUSE for its ability to expedite the 
healing of open bone fractures among injured U.S. soldiers. I certify 
that neither I nor my spouse has any financial interest in this 
project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Account: RDTE,A
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of Florida
  Address of Requesting Entity: 229 Tigert Hall, Post Office Box 
113157, Gainesville, FL 32611
  Description of Request: I have secured $2,750,000 for the University 
of Florida. Working in cooperation with the Army Natick Soldier Center, 
UF/IFAS CFDR will use the funds to manage a multidisciplinary program 
to identify and demonstrate wireless technologies such as radio 
frequency identification (RFID) in a simulated perishables supply 
chain. This project will address a critical area to the delivery of 
optimum quality combat rations and other perishable products: Wireless 
technologies will be coupled with various environmental and bio-sensors 
in order to accurately capture and transmit environmental storage and 
product quality data, and programs developed to automatically calculate 
in real time the remaining shelf life of combat rations and other 
perishable products. I certify that neither I nor my spouse has any 
financial interest in this project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3326
  Account: RDTE,AF
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Florida Institute for Human and 
Machine Cognition
  Address of Requesting Entity: 15 Southeast Osceola Avenue, Ocala, FL 
34471
  Description of Request: I have secured $1,000,000 for the Florida 
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Many military scenarios 
ranging from combat operations to search and rescue can benefit 
significantly from teams of humans, robots, and computers that 
collaborate and coordinate together to solve a problem. This project 
will provide an innovative solution to the collaboration and 
coordination problem by tying together computers and humans into a 
single, collaborating system by virtue of a single program that rapidly 
moves between all the computers in the system. By making the program 
move fast enough, the approach creates the illusion of each computer 
running the same program all the time. Having a single program greatly 
simplifies the complexity of developing a solution for coordination and 
collaboration while at the same time improving the ability to debug, 
verify, and validate the solution. Furthermore, this approach will 
allow the system to be more robust, resilient, predictable, and 
efficient when compared to other approaches. I certify that neither I 
nor my spouse has any financial interest in this project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3288
  Account: Federal Transit Administration, Bus and Bus Facilities
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Gainesville, FL
  Address of Requesting Entity: 200 East University Avenue, 
Gainesville, FL 32501
  Description of Request: I have secured $750,000 for the City of 
Gainesville. The funding will be used by the City of Gainesville for 
bus replacement. I certify that neither I nor my spouse has any 
financial interest in this project.

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  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: HHS, HRSA
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University of Florida
  Address of Requesting Entity: 229 Tigert Hall, Post Office Box 
113157, Gainesville, FL 32611
  Description of Request: I have secured $350,000 for the University of 
Florida for facililties and equipment. I certify that neither I nor my 
spouse has any financial interest in this project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: DOE, Higher Education
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Santa Fe College
  Address of Requesting Entity: 3000 NW 83rd Street, Gainesville, FL 
32606
  Description of Request: I have secured $450,000 for Santa Fe College. 
The funding will used to establish a Clinical Laboratory Sciences 
Program at Santa Fe College. Alachua County is home to the largest 
cluster of bioscience companies in the state of Florida. I certify that 
neither I nor my spouse has any financial interest in this project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: HHS, HRSA
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Santa Fe College
  Address of Requesting Entity: 3000 NW 83rd Street, Gainesville, FL 
32606
  Description of Request: I have secured $150,000 for Santa Fe College. 
The funding will used to construct an additional 40,000 square feet of 
classroom space at the new Alachua Emerging Technologies Center. This 
Center will house the new Clinical Laboratory Sciences program and a 
Biotechnology program. I certify that neither I nor my spouse has any 
financial interest in this project.
  Requesting Member: Congressman Cliff Stearns
  Bill Number: H.R. 3293
  Account: DOE, Elementary & Secondary Education
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Alachua County, FL
  Address of Requesting Entity: 12 South East 1st Street, Gainesville, 
FL 32601
  Description of Request: I have secured $250,000 for Alachua County, 
FL. The funding will used for the expansion of a multi-agency 
initiative designed to provide programs and services to at-risk 
children through a comprehensive after school program. I certify that 
neither I nor my spouse has any financial interest in this project.

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