[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 18561-18562]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                          HON. JOHN R. CARTER

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 21, 2009

  Mr. CARTER. 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: John R. Carter
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Army Corps of Engineers--Investigations
  Requesting entity: Brazos River Authority
  Address of Requesting Entity: 4600 Cobb Drive, Waco, TX
  Description: $300,000 in funding from the Investigations account of 
the Army Corps of Engineers for the Middle Brazos River. This program 
will investigate increasing the water

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supply of the Middle Brazos Basin. The COE and the Brazos River 
Authority (BRA) are evaluating the feasibility of increasing the water 
supply of the Middle Brazos basin by raising lake levels (reallocating 
flood pool storage to water supply). This is a long-term project aimed 
at developing additional water at existing reservoir sites for future 
needs. The $300,000 will be spent by the COE on an interim feasibility 
study.
  Requesting Member: John R. Carter
  Bill Number: H.R. 3183
  Account: Dept. of Energy--EERE
  Requesting entity: City of Georgetown, TX
  Address of Requesting Entity: 113 E. 8th Street, Georgetown TX 78626
  Description: The City of Georgetown is a municipal electric power 
provider, dedicated to efficiently lowering the cost of energy to the 
customers within their service area. $100,000 in funding is for the 
planning, engineering and development of a solar power project in 
partnership with GREX and the Life Sciences Center, Georgetown, Texas. 
This solar project will be used as a template type ``pilot project'' to 
encourage other commercial customers inside our service territory to 
consider installing similar renewable distributed power facilities to 
help the customer reduce the consumption of power generated by fossil 
fueled power plants and benefit the city power system by controlling 
voltage and maintaining power quality.

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