[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 21909]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                          HON. JOHN M. McHUGH

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 24, 2008

  Mr. McHUGH. Madam Speaker, I submit the following:
  Requesting Member: Congressman John M. McHugh.
  Bill Number: S. 3001.
  Account: Defense Health Program (DHP).
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Fort Drum Regional Health Planning 
Organization.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 120 Washington Street, Suite 302, 
Watertown, New York 13601.
  Provide an earmark of $640K for the Fort Drum Regional Health 
Planning Organization (FDRHPO).
  The funding will enable the organization, as part of the pilot 
program reauthorized and expanded in P.L. 110-181, to hire the 
necessary staff and conduct the required assessments.
  Requesting Member: Congressman John M. McHugh.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: RDT&E, Navy.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Trudeau Institute.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 154 Algonquin Ave., Saranac Lake, New 
York 12983.
  Provide an earmark of $1.6 million for U.S. Navy Pandemic Influenza 
Vaccine Program. The funding will support the acceleration of studies 
of pandemic influenza vaccine research by developing and incorporating 
the use of bioinformatics (the use of techniques including mathematics, 
informatics, statistics) to solve biological problems associated with 
pandemic influenza vaccine and related issues.
  Requesting Member: Congressman John M. McHugh.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: RDT&E, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Clarkson University.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 8 Clarkson Avenue, Potsdam, New York 
13699.
  Provide an earmark of $1.6 million for nanostructured materials for 
Photovoltaic Applications. On a digital battlefield, scientific and 
technological superiority in land warfighting capability places a high 
premium on reliable and mobile communications systems. Lead acid 
batteries and diesel generators must yield photovoltaic (PV or solar 
cells) systems. Commercial and military efforts to achieve orders of 
magnitude increases in photovoltaic (PV or solar cells) device 
efficiency and decreases in cost have not been successful to date. This 
research project will develop novel PV technology (such as 
antireflective, antiflouling, and self-cleaning coatings for the solar 
cell applications) that will increase efficiency and reliability.
  Requesting Member: Congressman John M. McHugh.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: RDT&E, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: State University of New York at 
Plattsburgh.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 101 Broad Street, Kehoe 815, 
Plattsburgh, New York 12901.
  Provide an earmark of $1.280 million to study the use of drugs to 
reduce hearing loss following acute acoustic trauma. The project will 
study the viability of using pharmacologic agents to reduce the effects 
on hearing of an acute acoustic trauma such as that produced by blast 
exposure. SUNY Plattsburgh's Auditory Research Laboratory is one of the 
few laboratories in the U.S. dedicated to this type of research. Acute 
blast exposure is a serious problem in current military operations, 
resulting in disability status for a large number of personnel. This 
project will provide an objective look at drugs that may reduce hearing 
loss.
  Requesting Member: Congressman John M. McHugh.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: RDT&E, Army, Medical Advanced Technology.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: WelchAllyn.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 4341 State Street Road, Skaneateles 
Falls, New York 13152.
  Provide an earmark of $2.0 million for the Personal Status Monitor 
(Nightengale). The funding will enable WelchAllyn to further develop 
its smart sensing technologies which provide on-body sensing of 
physiologic parameters that can be relayed to a remote server by means 
of a series of wireless relay devices for notification in the case of a 
critical or life-threatening event. The research and development will 
provide DOD with mobile, wireless monitoring of patients and other 
personnel who would benefit from being monitored where traditional 
monitoring has not typically been used given high cost and weight of 
devices.
  Requesting Member: Congressman John M. McHugh.
  Bill Number: H.R. 2638.
  Account: RDT&E, Army.
  Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Syracuse Research Corporation.
  Address of Requesting Entity: 7502 Round Pond Road, North Syracuse, 
New York 13212.
  Provide an earmark of $3.2 million for the Foliage Penetrating, 
Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Tracking and Engagement Radar (FORESTER). 
FORESTER is an airborne sensor system that provides standoff and 
persistent wide-area surveillance of dismounted troops and vehicles 
moving through foliage. Designed and developed to fly on the A160 
Hummingbird unmanned helicopter, FORESTER is a one-of-a-kind technology 
providing the warfighter with all-weather, day-night target detection 
and tracking capability in real-time. The request will provide the 
funding necessary to transition FORESTER to the user community and 
apply the technology to additional platforms.

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