[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 25218-25219]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. ROB BISHOP

                                of utah

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 20, 2009

  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Madam Speaker, consistent with the Republican 
Leadership's policy on earmarks, I am submitting the following earmark 
disclosure information regarding project funding I had requested and 
which was not originally included in the House reported version, but 
which was included within the Conference Report to accompany H.R. 2892. 
To the best of my knowledge, funding for this project: (1) is not 
directed to an entity or program that will be named after a sitting 
Member of Congress; (2) is not intended to be used by an entity to 
secure funds for other entities unless the use of funding is consistent 
with the specified purpose of the earmark; and (3) meets or exceeds all 
statutory requirements

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for matching funds. I further certify that neither my spouse, nor I, 
have any personal financial interests in this request.
  Project Title: Distributed Environment for Critical Infrastructure 
Decision-making Exercises (DECIDE)
  Amount: $3 million
  Requesting Member: Rob Bishop (UT)
  Bill Number: H.R. 2892
  Account: DHS Science & Technology -
  Address of Requesting Entity: Utah State University
  Location: Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322-1400.
  Matching Funds: Not applicable
  Detailed Spending Plan: Not applicable.
  Description and Justification of Funding: Funding is needed to 
continue efforts begun last year to develop digital and informational 
technology tools to help private financial institutions and other 
private sector institutions vital to the U.S. economy to coordinate 
defenses against increasingly sophisticated and growing cyber attack 
threats that, if not defended against, could have devastating 
implications for our economy as well as homeland security interests. 
Utah State University is a participant in a consortium of higher 
educational research institutions called the ``Cyber Conflict Research 
Consortium'' (CCRC) which also includes Miami University (Ohio); 
Norwich University Applied Research Institutes; Potomac Institute for 
Policy Studies; and the University of Nevada Reno.

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