[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 18, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2802-E2803]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. LOUIE GOHMERT

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 18, 2009

  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding funding received in my district as part of H.R. 2996, the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010.
  City of Lufkin Water Project. STAG Water and Wastewater 
Infrastructure Project, the City

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of Lufkin, P.O. Drawer 190, Lufkin, Texas 75902, $400,000 to help the 
city purchase the water production and transmission facilities owned by 
a local, but long-idle and deteriorating paper mill in danger of 
becoming an environmental hazard with long-term national implications. 
The funding will be used to develop infrastructure for the storage and 
treatment of 17 million gallons of water per day from the Angelina 
River and Kurth Lake, helping meet the increasing residential, 
commercial and industrial demands for potable water in a growing region 
of the state, which is relied on repeatedly by evacuating hurricane 
victims.

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