[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 28190]
[From the U.S. 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 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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