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SENATOR CARDIN'S APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 (FY2010)
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The following Maryland-based projects have been requested by Senator Cardin for funding in FY2010. The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider these requests later this year. Any proposals they adopt will be included in the funding bills considered by the full Senate. After the bills have passed the Senate, they must be reconciled with versions from the House of Representatives. Fiscal Year 2010 begins on October 1, 2009. Funding bills are expected to go to President Obama on or about that time. None of these projects will be funded until they have successfully completed all of these steps.
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State/Local - Non-Federal Government
BRAC - Related to Base Realignment
Metro - Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Federal - Federal Agencies
White Oak - FDA Consolidation at White Oak
Non-profit - Non-Profit Organizations
Private - Private Entity
Bay - Chesapeake Bay related
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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies |
| Location: |
Frostburg, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Frostburg State University |
| Amount: |
$2,293,620 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project is a collaborative, inter-institutional effort (Frostburg State University with the University of Maryland and West Virginia University) devoted to the multidisciplinary study and conservation of native plants and will foster economic growth in the region through the managed development of the area's natural resources. Funds are sought for scientific research, economic development and public outreach, and educational outreach. |
| Project Title: |
Baltimore Urban Forestry Watershed Demonstration |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Parks and People Foundation |
| Amount: |
$150,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project will implement 10 low-cost urban forestry restoration projects and demonstrate a 25 percent improvement in water quality based on an approved Baltimore City water quality management plan. This project is also notable for its efforts to create environmental awareness and improve the quality of life in local neighborhoods. This is a long-standing and successful partnership with demonstrated results. |
| Project Title: |
Center for Healthy Advancement of Neighborhoods and Green Environments |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Morgan State University |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding for this project will assist public agencies, nonprofit groups, and land developers in land use planning, sustainable community design, community-based participation, affordable housing, health and design, and green architecture. It will bring together underserved communities with professional architects, planners, and contractors to conduct applied research that will increase the understanding of urban growth and increase awareness of environmental issues. |
| Project Title: |
Deer Creek Watershed Conservation and Restoration |
| Location: |
Bel Air, MD |
| Recipient: |
Harford County Government |
| Amount: |
$400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding for this project will assist in the implementation of the Deer Creek Watershed Restoration Action Strategy recommendations, promoting conservation efforts and completing stream bank restoration in the Deer Creek Watershed. The County has devoted considerable financial resources to preserving this important agricultural resource. |
| Project Title: |
High Priority Research |
| Location: |
Beltsville, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center |
| Amount: |
$3,184,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is the flagship of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service. Requested funds will support high priority research projects, including Bio-medicinal Materials in Plants, Foundry Sands/ Air and Water Quality in the Chesapeake, Potato Diseases, Poultry Diseases and Research into Obesity. Obesity is a serious problem in problem in the United States and in Maryland. Funding for this project will assist ongoing research to investigate the role of barley and barley fiber consumption on satiety, in prevention and management of obesity, and in the prevention and management of pre-diabetes and diabetes. |
| Project Title: |
Sustainability of Eastern Shore Agriculture |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This joint collaboration will focus on finding ways to enhance land use for production of crops beyond food and fiber production from current feedstocks, as well as examine alternative feedstocks for biofuel production. This collaboration will also advance the use of plants for bio-manufacturing of medicines, enzymes, polymers, bioenergy and develop technologies to protect the biosecurity of America's food supplies. This project is particularly important for finding ways to support agriculture in the future. |
| Project Title: |
UM Protecting America's Food Supply |
| Location: |
College Park, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The purpose of this project is to develop a series of tools that can help all sectors of the food industry make more informed decisions to ensure the safety and security of our food supply. The project also hopes to provide tools for Federal and State regulatory agencies additional tools for setting standards and inspection programs based on a sound understanding of the impact that different sectors have on the overall risk associated with food. |
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Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) |
| Location: |
Solomons, MD |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland - Chesapeake Biological Laboratory |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 - multi-state, multi-institution |
| Description of Project: |
| The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT), headquartered in the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, is a partnership of 8 of the premier science and oceanographic institutions in the U.S. that provides vital services for NOAA's developing Integrated Ocean Observing System: technology testing, evaluation, and calibration, and technical training. In addition, ACT supports managing resources for sustainable use, mitigating natural hazards and ensuring public health and national security with its technology programs. ACT facilitates the development and adoption of technologies for studying and monitoring coastal environments. ACT transitions emerging technologies to operational use rapidly and effectively, and provides information necessary for the deployment of reliable and cost-effective ocean monitoring networks. The requested funds are to allow ACT to continue to provide the products and services that its constituents have come to rely on over the last five years. |
| Project Title: |
Analytical Crime Tracking |
| Location: |
Upper Marlboro, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Prince George's County |
| Amount: |
$449,100 |
| Description of Project: |
| Analytical Crime Tracking is now being utilized by police department's throughout the country. Incorporating tools like aerial photographs, spatial analysis, real-time call for service monitoring, programmed alerts, and virtual case management to tradition investigative technology allows law enforcement agencies to analyze past crimes and accurately forecast future trouble areas. This critical intellegence can be shared with beat officers, other departments, and other agencies. This is imperative in a jurisdiction such as Prince George's County. |
| Project Title: |
Baltimore City's Juvenile Screening and Diversion |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Baltimore City Mayor's Office on Criminal Justice |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Youth who are arrested for nonviolent offenses and do not have an extensive arrest history rarely receive supervision or services. They are released to a parent without any intervention or services. Because of the compelling need to address the lack of early intervention programs for delinquent youth, the City of Baltimore intends to pilot an intervention and diversion project, the Juvenile Screening and Diversion Program. Funding under this request would support evidence-based programming designed to serve these youth. One-third of the funding would be used for staffing and administrative costs while the remaining funding would support evidence-based early intervention services. Outcomes include reduced recidivism and improved school attendance. |
| Project Title: |
Capital City Safe Streets Program |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Recipient: |
City of Annapolis |
| Amount: |
$350,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The purpose of the Capital City Safe Streets Program is to reduce violent crime in the City of Annapolis, capital city of Maryland. To accomplish the overall objective of reducing violent crime, several overriding strategies, goals, and objectives for communication will be established. The City will utilize the funding to do the following: hire one crime analyst, one criminal justice coordinator and one job/career counselor. Funds will also be used to: 1) subsidize Stanton Community Center programs currently in the Recreation and Parks Department; 2) provide two additional foot patrol officers; 3) support nonprofits that provide services to troubled individuals, families, and impoverished communities. Also, inclusive in this process is the maintenance and enhancement of quality of our neighborhoods, the promotion of communication among the citizens of Annapolis and organizations |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Recipient: |
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| CBIBS is a network of environmental observation platforms along the John Smith Trail designed to meet the needs of scientists, on-the-water users, public safety officials, educators, decision-makers and other segments of the public. The platforms provide real-time data, and the supporting system delivers products and information for science, education, and interpretation. The requested funding for FY 2010 will allow for the acquisition and deployment of 5 additional buoys, each outfitted to address the needs of its surrounding area. There are tentative plans to deploy these buoys in the following locations: Washington D.C., Patuxent River, Eastern Shore, and two locations in Virginia. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium (CIBAC) |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Morgan State University (with Bowie State University & University of Maryland, Eastern Shore) |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium (CIBAC - comprised of Morgan State University, Bowie State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore) requests FY09 funding in the amount of $4 million to continue important ongoing research and development efforts with NASA needed to enable the development and deployment of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). In the combined CIBAC effort, the consortium will continue its development of flight experiments and lab work to develop the tools pilots will need in the NextGen. The ongoing projects that will be modified in the next funding period to support the Integrated Intelligent Flight Deck and the development of the Next Gen system include: Vehicle Safety Technologies, System Safety Technologies, Aviation Security, and Synthetic Vision Systems Information. |
| Project Title: |
Computer Aided Dispatch/Records Management System |
| Location: |
Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland State Police |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Currently, The Maryland State Police, Maryland Transportation Authority Police, Maryland Natural Resources Police, and other critical state public safety agencies do not utilize the same computer aided dispatch/records management system (CAD/RMS). As a result, these public safety agencies do not share resources when dispatching or collecting data during emergency management situations. The CAD/RMS provides each jurisdiction in Maryland the opportunity to share in the data creation and development thereby coordinating resources, response times and providing quicker and effective deployments during the state's emergency management responses. This system is one of many solutions to providing homeland security. This system would allow coordination of state public safety resources for efficient, effective deployments during the states emergency management responses. This coordination provides for better use of resources resulting in safer communities. |
| Project Title: |
Conservation and Education Program |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB) |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| As a conservation education organization, the National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB) is committed to protecting and preserving the aquatic environment. The Aquarium's mission, goals, and strategic plan address the community's learning and informational needs through a wide range of programs that inspire people to respect and protect the aquatic world. The Aquarium is dedicated to not only promoting an understanding of the importance of protecting natural habitat, but also in offering programs that help citizens become active stewards of their own local environment. In FY10, NAIB is seeking funding to expand its research, conservation and education programs and facilities. Funds will allow the Aquarium to improve much-needed animal care facilities and expand its research, education and conservation programs which provide replicable techniques for aquatic animal medical care and breeding, stranded animal rescue, and ecology-based aquaculture. |
| Project Title: |
Cooperative Oxford Laboratory |
| Location: |
Oxford, MD |
| Recipient: |
NOAA Cooperative Oxford Laboratory |
| Amount: |
$20,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Cooperative Oxford Laboratory, a partnership between NOAA NOS/NMFS and the Department of Natural Resources, utilizes complementary assets of the Oxford Lab and academic institutions to deliver scientific tools and advice that guide Chesapeake Bay management and restoration decisions through integrated ecosystem assessment linking land use to water quality and dependent biota such as blue crabs, oysters, and striped bass. The Cooperative Oxford Lab partnership is a uniquely effective collaboration that ensures state-of-the-art scientific research to target needs identified by state and federal resource managers. Funds would support renovation costs for laboratory space and analytical offices in the current facility. |
| Project Title: |
Counter-Terrorism Intellegence Initiative |
| Location: |
Rockville, MD |
| Recipient: |
Montgomery County Department of Police |
| Amount: |
$962,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The complete intelligence cycle established in this initiative allows for collection and distribution of State intelligence information to and from the law enforcement officers, including patrol officers, in Montgomery County in actionable formats. This capability provides not only for an immediate response to an unfolding threat but also would allow for investigators from within the Montgomery County jurisdiction to follow up on leads. Funding provides for a total of 4 personnel to staff counterintelligence and information sharing for Montgomery County for two (2) years to facilitate improved intelligence coordination between regional, state, and law enforcement agencies. |
| Project Title: |
CSU Criminal Justice Institute |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Coppin State University |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| As crime rates grow in Maryland's urban areas, there is a deficiency in applied research for public safety in urban communities. Research in critical areas of criminal justice can better help Maryland's public safety officials start to address these problems. Project funds will allow Coppin to hire additional faculty, researchers, graduate assistants, and purchase forensics equipment. |
| Project Title: |
Earth System Information Delivery and Assessment (ESIDA) |
| Location: |
College Park, MD |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland College Park |
| Amount: |
$4,500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Societies around the world expect, and depend upon, a stable, though seasonally variable, climate. Recent climate changes have demonstrated the need for better understanding of the climate system, its natural variability, and its susceptibility to human influences. Funds are requested to perform a one-year feasibility study in support of Earth System Information Delivery and Assessment (ESIDA). Such a capability would produce complete, comprehensive and consistent space-time descriptions of all significant aspects of the Earth System. |
| Project Title: |
Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium Dropout Prevention Programs |
| Location: |
Centreville, MD |
| Recipient: |
Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium |
| Amount: |
$325,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Since 2000 the Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium's schools have been using web-based tools to help students in the academic credit recovery process and prevent them from dropping out. These consortium's programs have been able to keep hundreds of students in school who might otherwise dropout of high school before obtaining a diploma. The requested funding will be used to help maintain, supplement, and expand those programs that have proven to be successful. By maintaining and expanding the program it will allow the schools within the nine counties of the consortium to expand the scope of the programs to include more at-risk students. The funding will allow approximately 1,000 additional students to participate in the programs and help keep another 1,000 currently enrolled in the programs. |
| Project Title: |
Enhancements in STEM Education for K-12 teachers |
| Location: |
Stevenson, MD |
| Recipient: |
Stevenson University |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Stevenson University is engaged in a multifaceted approach to addressing the existing shortage in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce pipeline. Requested funidng will support program and curriculum development and acquisition of scientific equipment and laboratory technology to implement the University's various STEM Education programs. |
| Project Title: |
First Responder Radio Interoperability Project |
| Location: |
Statewide |
| Recipient: |
State of Maryland |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| First Responder radio interoperability is a requirement to respond and/or investigate any widespread incident which would involve multiple jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies. The Maryland State Police, Maryland Transportation Authority Police, Maryland Natural Resources Police, and other critical state public safety agencies do not utilize the same radio system that most local law enforcement jurisdictions use. The State is addressing the need for a statewide wireless public safety communications system. In anticipation of the release of frequencies in the 700 MHz spectrum which will enable the State to achieve an interoperable statewide radio system using Voice over Internet protocol/Radio over Internet protocol (VoIP/RoIP), the State has developed a Request for Proposals that will provide a phased approach to implement this interoperable communications system in the 700 MHz spectrum. Funding will provide the State with the ability to continue to implement its phased approach to contract an effective interoperable radio solution that will better protect its first responders and citizens. |
| Project Title: |
Intelligent Camera Surveillance System |
| Location: |
Ellicott City, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Howard County |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This request would fund a camera management system to identify potentially harmful activities captured by Howard County's surveillance cameras and push the images of those activities to the 911 Center monitors so that they can be viewed by a human being and reacted to in real time. |
| Project Title: |
Maryland Internet Safety 101: Empowering Parents Program |
| Location: |
Great Falls, VA (Project location: throughout Maryland) |
| Recipient: |
Enough Is Enough |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Maryland Internet Safety 101: Empowering Parents Program will target adult audiences through multi-faceted state-focused initiatives, in partnership with grassroots networks including the Maryland PTA and Maryland Coalition Against Pornography and through additional sponsorship through local business interests. As a cohesive, integrated state-based strategy, Internet Safety 101 will ensure that parents and other adult child caregivers are provided with the information needed to establish safety rules and to use appropriate software tools to protect children under their care, irrespective of any insecurities about technology or a lack of previous training or education. |
| Project Title: |
Mental Health Court |
| Location: |
Upper Marlboro, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Prince George's County |
| Amount: |
$471,200 |
| Description of Project: |
| While Prince George's County Mental Health Court Committee has made significant strides with the current resources available, additional funding is required to continue to build community capacity to support individuals with mental illness. The County criminal justice system is experiencing an increasing trend of individuals with mental illness being overrepresented in the system. Requested funding will support the expansion and implementation of Prince George's Mental Health Court. The request will allow the court to be open 1 additional day every week for the entire year. The Mental Court Committee has already laid the foundation and leveraged current community resources to begin the process. A centralized docket and set days for Mental Health Court have already been developed and are being implemented. Specifically, requested funding will provide a team of court staff and mental health professionals to work together in developing appropriate treatments plans and provide intensive supervision of participants' pre and post release. |
| Project Title: |
Metagenomic Analysis of Chesapeake Bay (MACB) |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| MACB will ultimately lead to a healthier Bay and stronger, more productive fisheries that currently support over 28 million jobs in the fishing, seafood, aquaculture, tourism and recreational industries. The partnership between UMBI, University of Maryland at Baltimore's Institute of Genomic Science and University of Maryland Eastern Shore will increase competitiveness in sequencing and genomic technologies that provide the underpinning for Maryland's biotechnology industry and will include job training and job creation for the next generation, both at professional levels (scientists, engineers, natural resource management, watermen, seafood business) and at technical levels (technicians, trades). MACB will provide the scientific underpinning for the first detailed cataloguing of the Chesapeake Bay microbial communities and thereby will advance restoration strategies for scientific ecosystem-based management of Chesapeake resources. |
| Project Title: |
NOAA Oyster Restoration Programs |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD; Commonwealth of Virginia |
| Recipient: |
Oyster Recovery Project |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The requested Oyster Restoration Funds will be divided between restoration of oyster habitat and oyster reefs and planting disease-free oysters in scientifically-selected sites throughout the Bay watershed through a grants program and partnership with the Oyster Recovery Project, a public-private entity. Oysters are at the heart of the ecological restoration of the Chesapeake, filtering up to 50 gallons per day per oyster, as well as providing essential habitat for many key Bay organisms. Oysters are also a central part of the watermen economy that fuels the seafood industry in Virginia, Maryland, and the entire region. |
| Project Title: |
Parent Training and Community Education Initiative |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
The Family Tree, Inc. |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| To reduce child maltreatment, The Family Tree, Inc. (501(c) 3) will implement a multi-level system of parenting support called the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program to families living in Baltimore City, and Baltimore and Prince George's Counties. Triple P - Positive Parenting Program is a comprehensive five-level strategy of increasing intensity designed to enhance parental competency for all parents - not just parents in crisis. It includes mass public education, brief public seminars, parenting classes, and consultations by specially trained partners in clinics, schools, faith communities and other family centers. The goals of this project are to reduce the number of: 1) indicated cases of child maltreatment, 2) visits to the hospital emergency room for accidental injuries of children 12 years of age and younger, and 3) children entering foster care due to child abuse and neglect. Project benchmarks include: reaching 5,600 parents/caretakers in Year 1 (9 months of service) and 10,000 each in Year 2 and Year 3 and developing and maintaining 20 collaborative partnerships and train upwards of 100 individuals at our partner sites who will deliver prevention services. |
| Project Title: |
Radio Replacement Project |
| Location: |
Hagerstown, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
City of Hagerstown, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$900,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Hagerstown seeks to participate in the regional interoperable radio system. The project involves the replacement of 130 disparate and aging radios, including the radio, licensing, and maintenance fees. The federal government has placed a priority on the ability of local governments to effectively communicate with one another in times of emergencies and crisis. The goal of this project is the enable the Hagerstown Police Department to achieve interoperability in communications with Washington County and other regional public safety agencies. The requested funds will enable the purchase of 130 portable radios, including the radio, licensing, and maintenance fees. |
| Project Title: |
Reentry Center at the Northwest One-Stop Career Center |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Employment Development (MOED) |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding reentry programs that connect ex-offenders to jobs has proven to reduce recidivism in the long run and will produce significant cost-savings to MD, which currently spends approximately $22K per person per year on incarceration. With these funds, MOED will enroll an additional 750 ex-offenders into existing programs. Of those, 563 (75 percent) will receive a diagnostic evaluation of the individual's employability interests, values, aptitudes, abilities, educational and vocational history, challenges, motivations and existing skills. As a result of these services, 250 participants will be placed in full-time unsubsidized employment and will receive post-employment services designed to ensure job retention such as job coaching, financial literacy, etc. Additionally, MOED will provide training (e.g., commercial truck driving training or computer literacy training) to 30 individuals that will lead directly to full time employment. MOED expects this initiative will reduce recidivism of program participants by10-20 percent over the control group. |
| Project Title: |
Reentry Employment Program for Ex-Offenders |
| Location: |
Rockville, MD |
| Recipient: |
Montgomery County Government |
| Amount: |
$200,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Typically, ex-offenders are offered low-paying, dismal positions that employers cannot persuade members of the general population to accept and that serve to perpetuate the cycle of poverty. By contrast, an ex-offender who is presented with a quality job - one that offers adequate wages, adequate hours, stability, and a strong match in interests, skills, schedule, and criminal background, fosters job retention and ultimately alleviates poverty. Additionally, studies demonstrate that employment is a positive factor in reducing recidivism, which makes our communities safer. The Montgomery County Reentry Program enhances participants' abilities to obtain quality employment by offering extra help in finding employers who are willing to hire ex-offenders, as well as in facilitating the development of critical employment and socialization skills that make the ex-offender attractive to potential employers The purpose of the Reentry Employment Program is to provide offenders with critical employment readiness skills so that they are able to transition successfully to employment upon release. |
| Project Title: |
Replacement of 911 Communications Center |
| Location: |
Towson, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Baltimore County |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Baltimore County requests assistance with funding to replace equipment at the 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Center at the current building location in Towson, Maryland. The existing center is 20 years old and was not designed or constructed to meet the modern security guidelines or critical infrastructure and standards. Staffed by 193 call-takers, dispatchers, supervisors, and technical personnel, the Center handles over 839,000 emergency and non-emergency calls per year and centralizes dispatch to police, fire, and other emergency services. A replacement Center is needed to enhance security, to provide upgraded training facilities, and expand regional communications. |
| Project Title: |
Rockville Police Technology Upgrade Project |
| Location: |
Rockville, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
City of Rockville, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| In a growing community that is rapidly changing, making use of the latest technology is a key way that the Rockville Police Department continues to improve its services and keep the community safe. The upgraded technology will enable officers to work smarter in the day-to-day Police operations. The City has continually strived to ensure that the citizens of Rockville are provided with the highest levels of police service possible, not only in response to calls-for-service, but also through the myriad of crime prevention and citizen awareness programs presented to, and in cooperation with, the public. The Police Technology upgrade project would enable Rockville Police to continue to provide state-of-the-art community policing services to the public and enable City police to effectively communicate with Montgomery County public safety assets. |
| Project Title: |
Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Department of Juvenile Services |
| Amount: |
$2,500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The DJS Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) provides increased supervision and services to youth identified as most at risk of being victims or perpetrators of crimes of violence. The VPI is a statewide collaborative effort to reduce juvenile violence and victimization in conjunction with the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, local law enforcement, local government, health departments, community service providers and the judiciary. Services are based on and targeted to address individual needs that correlate with delinquent behavior including youth tolerance towards violence, negative peer associations, lack of supervision, lack of neighborhood safety, substance abuse, education, and anger management. The initiative incorporates a level system and continuum of graduated responses to ensure that immediate and appropriate actions are consistently applied when youth are non-compliant. Funding will enable DJS to expand VPI to remaining 23 jurisdictions. |
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Defense Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
3-D Imaging Polarimetric LIDAR Sensors |
| Recipient: |
Sigma Space Corporation |
| Location: |
Lanham, MD |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable continuation of Air Force research and development of a novel instrument for smaller UAV platforms to provide 3D imaging and identification of targets partially obscured by foliage, ground fog, battlefield dust, camouflage, turbid water and other such challenges. Focus is to bring 3D imaging radar to full operational status, integrate into a deliverable mini-uav, flight test unit and deliver in-theatre. |
| Project Title: |
Advanced Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies |
| Recipient: |
Satcon Technology / Force Protection |
| Location: |
Linthicum(MD) Ladson(SC) |
| Amount: |
$9,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable the development, integration, and testing of the Satcon hybrid electric vehicle powertrain to meet/exceed current Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) objective electric power requirements in a ballistic and blast protected Force Protection Industries vehicle. This initiative will provide the US Army and Marine Corps with silent, fuel efficient vehicles with power system and power generation options that maximize force effectiveness while reducing energy needs and soldier risk in hostile environments. The overall objective of this proposed work is to develop and deliver a complete family of MRAP vehicles (one Buffalo, one Cougar and one Cheetah) capable of remote, mobile silent power generation and silent watch power. |
| Project Title: |
Advanced Marine Controller (AMC) for Marine Gas Turbine |
| Recipient: |
Rolls Royce Naval Marine (RRNMI) MES Division |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Amount: |
$7,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable development, testing and verification of algorithms for an Advanced Marine Controller for marine gas turbine engines to reduce energy and life cycle costs by leveraging proven aero engine technology. The new control system will reduce marine gas turbine operational and life cycle costs by leveraging proven technology from commercial and military aircraft engines. |
| Project Title: |
Advance Restoration Therapies in Spinal Cord Injury |
| Recipient: |
Kennedy Krieger Institute |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Traditional rehabilitation focuses mostly on teaching SCI patients how to compensate for injuries thought to be irreversible. Funding will enable the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Center to emphasize an innovative therapy technique known as Advanced Restoration Therapies. With this therapy, therapists and physicians can use specially designed exercise equipment to stimulate normal movements, a practice which can help regenerate cells and help patients' bodies "remember" how to move. |
| Project Title: |
Auxilliary Power Unit for the Abrams Main Battle Tank (M1A2) |
| Recipient: |
Patrick Power Products, Inc. |
| Location: |
Elkridge, MD |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable completion of all qualification testing and/or modifications to meet the Army's requirements for the Abrams APU program with demonstrated technology for reduced fuel consumption. This technology would reduce M1A2 idle-run fuel consumption from 14 gallons/hour to 1 gallon/hour. This significantly reduces logistical resupply needs and greatly reduces significant in-theatre fuel expenditures. |
| Project Title: |
Bioagent Early Warning Detector |
| Recipient: |
CosmosID |
| Location: |
College Park, MD |
| Amount: |
$6,400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will develop hand held system to strengthen Force Protection by anticipating incidents involving biological WMD. The detector identifies multiple bioagents, gives threat Name & Confidence level and has dual use for the private health sector. Addresses gap in protection, improves logistical operations via effective response and delivers capability into the hands of forward observers and first responders. |
| Project Title: |
Civil Air Patrol O&M Account Plus-up |
| Recipient: |
Civil Air Patrol |
| Location: |
Nationwide |
| Amount: |
$4,400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The President's FY10 Defense Department Budget is expected to reduce the CAP's O&M funding by $4.4 million from last year's level. Plus-up funding is necessary to maintain readiness to support disaster relief, community service missions, search and rescue, youth leadership development and homeland security initiatives. |
| Project Title: |
Development of Model and Plan for Green Environment |
| Recipient: |
Amethyst Technologies, LLC |
| Location: |
Ft. Detrick, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,700,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The development of Green certified laboratories and clean rooms in accordance to the USGBC's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system supports the performance measurement requirements specified in the Government Performance and Results Act. There is a need to develop a quality program for the creation, renovation, maintenance, and quality testing of biotechnology facilities to ensure activities are performed correctly the first time. This program will provide LEED certified engineers, six sigma blackbelts, subject matter experts, and computer scientists to develop a construction quality program. |
| Project Title: |
Energetics S&T Workforce Development |
| Recipient: |
Energetics Technology Center |
| Location: |
La Plata, MD |
| Amount: |
$5,800,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funds will be used to bolster our nation's energetics workforce and allow energetics experts to conduct wide-ranging basic research in order to advance the science and engineering of energetics systems. This project will help regenerate an energetics professional workforce at a time when many scientists and engineers are approaching retirement and many young people are choosing other career paths. |
| Project Title: |
Fibrin Adhesive STat (FAST) Dressing |
| Recipient: |
STB Lifesaving Technologies |
| Location: |
Rockville, MD |
| Amount: |
$6,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The FAST Dressing is the only bandage effective against all kinds of blood loss and the only one capable of stopping severe arterial and venous bleeding. The dressing will save 1000s of lives (military & civilian) once approved by the FDA. Funding for the FAST Dressing will enable production of clinical dressings, conducting the FDA required final tests on these clinical-grade dressings, preparing FDA-required documentation, and beginning the clinical trial of the bandage. |
| Project Title: |
Fuel Cell Hybrid Battery Manufacturing for Defense |
| Recipient: |
Ballard Power Systems |
| Location: |
College Park, MD |
| Amount: |
$7,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support the development of Fuel Cell Hybrid Battery (FCHB) technology for defense applications and ops while fostering domestic FCHB manufacturing capacity. FCHB systems optimize fuel cell and battery tech and enable increased efficiency and a reduced environmental footprint for the defense base and field ops. This program will support the development, manufacture and field trial evaluation of up to 40 FCHB systems in materials handling (forklift) applications at the Defense Logistics Agency. |
| Project Title: |
Global Location and Distress Alerting Capability |
| Recipient: |
TRX Systems, Inc. |
| Location: |
Greenbelt, MD |
| Amount: |
$2,600,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| As part of the Battlefield Airman initiative, AFSOC is seeking to provide individual airman and small, dismounted combat units with a passive, compact, lightweight, wearable device for 3D positioning, distress alerting and geo-location in any environment. Funding will enable TRX technology to provide an order of magnitude improvement in GPS denied location accuracy and transition this capability to DOD to provide global real time distress alerting and location. |
| Project Title: |
Healthcare Consortium for Improved Patient Safety |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will allow development of a cutting-edge consortium of renowned healthcare institutions to advance the application of technology to basic surgical sciences which will assist both the military and civilian medical communities. The proposed unique consortium seeks to maintain the clinical and medical superiority of health care professionals who support the U.S. military. The research pillars that they would work to promote, that are specifically referred to, each hold potential to impact military medical interventions from the urgent action of the far-forward medic through definitive care at a tertiary care treatment facility. |
| Project Title: |
High Energy Conventional Energetics (Phase 3) |
| Recipient: |
Indian Head Division / Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Location: |
Indian Head, MD |
| Amount: |
$6,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Purpose is to fund an IHDIV / NSWC energetics project to develop conventional energetics that have energy release up to 10 times that of TNT, in order to counter new types of asymmetric threats such as weapons of mass destruction (WMD). More powerful energetics, such as thermobarics, reactive structural materials, and thermobaric high temperature incendiaries, alloys, intermetallics, fluorine-rich compounds, and/or thermites, must be developed to satisfy Agent Defeat and Hard Target Defeat requirements. |
| Project Title: |
Hybrid Electric (Heavy Truck) Vehicle |
| Recipient: |
Volvo Powertrain of North America |
| Location: |
Hagerstown, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Need exists to provide the military with a more fuel efficient, cleaner and more easily maintained heavy truck powertrain. A secondary goal is to build a truck engine that can provide the same electrical source as a traditional diesel generator. Combining these two capabilities reduces deployed forces need for fossil fuels and the need for inefficient diesel generators. Funding will be used to complete the final development stage prior to production. This final year of funding will enable Mack Trucks and Volvo Powertrain to finish building a prototype M915 truck with hybrid powertrain, and prepare to compete for an M915 procurement by the Army. |
| Project Title: |
Improved Capabilities for Irregular Warfare Platform |
| Recipient: |
Naval Air Station Patuxent River |
| Location: |
Lexington Park, MD |
| Amount: |
$6,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support integrating and upgrading Special Operations Forces (SOF) vehicles and platforms with more advanced intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance capabilities. Project will integrate new technology across the broad range of SOF vehicles to provide warfighters with access to a common operational picture and air-ground-sea interoperability. |
| Project Title: |
Integrated Chemical and Biological Detection System |
| Recipient: |
Battelle Memorial Institute |
| Location: |
Edgewood, MD |
| Amount: |
$4,750,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support the Integrated Chemical and Biological Detection System to warn military personnel and first responders before weapons of mass destruction and chemical or biological agents reach dangerous exposure levels. A technology demonstration will be conducted on the fully integrated mixed chemical and biological (CB) detection system in preparation of replacing currently deployed detection technologies that are antiquated and expensive to maintain. |
| Project Title: |
Intelligent Multi-modal Mobility for Robotics |
| Recipient: |
Vecna Technologies, Inc. |
| Location: |
Greenbelt, MD |
| Amount: |
$2,200,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The US military has a critical need for high performance robotic mobility platforms that can quickly and efficiently traverse challenging terrain, particularly those that would be encountered in a wartime urban environment. Existing wheeled and tracked robots are too slow, and too difficult to operate. Funding will allow development of an intelligent multi-modal mobility technology capable of sensing the operational terrain and enabling robotic mobility platforms to morph between two mobility configurations, providing either continuous contact or discrete contact locomotion modalities (e.g., tracks and legs or wheels and legs). |
| Project Title: |
International Assessment of Stem Cell R&D for Soldier Healthcare |
| Recipient: |
World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc |
| Location: |
Frederick, MD |
| Amount: |
$1,800,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Now that some nations are investing heavily in stem-cell R&D, and are coming to lead the U.S. in some outputs, it is necessary to bring back important results from abroad. The best method is to send delegations of top U.S. experts to study the best labs abroad and meet with the world's leading researchers. Funding will enable WTEC, a non-profit of Loyola College, to coordinate peer review delegations and conduct a series of R&D assessments on worldwide stem-cell research. Findings from this research will allow TATRC to evaluate and incorporate these worldwide advances into healthcare for our nation's war-fighters. |
| Project Title: |
IP Routing In Space (IRIS) |
| Recipient: |
Space and Missile Command, Los Angeles AFB |
| Location: |
Los Angeles, CA |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| IP Routing in Space (IRIS) is a potentially transformational satellite-communications technology which enables the interconnection of many different and previously isolated, incompatible radio and networking systems across a common, secure and globally available IP network delivered via satellite. Following the 2009 launch and testing of the IRIS JCTD the Department of Defense will be well positioned to take full advantage of IP routed satellite services. Funding is requested to utilize satellite transponder capacity on the commercial IRIS JCTD system onboard the Intelsat 14 satellite for operational testing, evaluation and assessment by the US Military for one year. |
| Project Title: |
Joint Mission Battlespace to Support Net-Ready KPP and Joint Interoperability RDT&E |
| Recipient: |
Naval Air Station Patuxent River |
| Location: |
Lexington Park, MD |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will procure and integrate the C4ISR systems (tactical data links, command and control, and communications) necessary to create a joint battle space environment to test, analyze and determine whether the Key Performance Parameters for net-readiness and interoperability have been met. This initiative gives NAS Patuxent River the ability to conduct joint testing and training throughout the Joint Atlantic and Chesapeake Ranges Cooperative, thereby allowing many tests to be conducted from multiple locations simultaneously. |
| Project Title: |
Large Experimental Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) System |
| Recipient: |
Phoenix International Holdings Inc. |
| Location: |
Largo, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support development of a large autonomous underwater vehicle with an open-frame expandable payload capacity to meet Navy and DoD UUV repair, maintenance and operational availability requirements for multiple roles and missions. The Large Experimental UUV System (LExUS) will fulfill Navy requirements by leveraging previous design efforts to maximize the payload volume and lithium-ion battery technology developed under a Navy SBIR program. |
| Project Title: |
Manportable Threat Warning Networking Technique AN |
| Recipient: |
Thales Communications, Inc |
| Location: |
Clarksburg, MD |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support the investigation of utilizing existing SOF Operational Element (Team) communications equipment, the AN/PRC-148, as an element of a body worn threat warning system to support signal intercep, direction finding and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) acquisition and networked data connectivity. |
| Project Title: |
Mobile Optical Wireless Networking for Intel, Security & Recon |
| Recipient: |
Optemax, LLC |
| Location: |
Columbia, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable development of a fully functional optical wireless mobile aerial network system capable of transmitting data at 1 - 10 Gbps with high reliability. The OSD-SCO is testing 360 degree cameras on an aerostat and needs a high speed link to transmit those images, but current wireless technologies are too slow. Research and design has been accomplished on pointing and tracking technologies, suitable gimbals, transceiver designs to overcome distance and weather limitations, and developing protocol and class of service routing software for the BeamNet appliance. This funding is needed to develop and integrate the components, and demonstrate the device on an airship. |
| Project Title: |
NAE Interoperability with Carrier Strike and Expeditionary Group Forces |
| Recipient: |
Naval Air Station, Patuxent River |
| Location: |
Lexington Park, MD |
| Amount: |
$6,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Modern battlefield communications and electronic information warfare systems must perform in diverse frequency spectrum and geographic environments. Missions require that joint sea, air and land units process and exchange a multitude of sensor, tactical and strategic data electronically. Funding will enable an upgrade to advance Navy's ability to perform interoperability test and evaluation of ship and aircraft systems and emerging command and control system technologies, all in a hybrid replication of the user's environment. |
| Project Title: |
National Center for Craniofacial Reconstruction at the University Maryland |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support creation of a craniofacial reconstruction center as a national resource for military and civilian patients. This center will be dedicated to the integrated repair of complicated composite tissue loss secondary to military casualty, trauma, burn or tumor resection using state of the art innovative and restorative therapies. A clinical evaluation of military and civilian patients will also be conducted for potential composite tissue transplantation reconstructive techniques. |
| Project Title: |
National Traumatic Injury Simulation Training Center |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland Medical Center / Shock Trauma |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support one of the most successful military-civilian medical training programs in the country. Project will develop seven simulation/training rooms to serve as test-beds for technology that replicate live environments, provide for multiple trauma team training and simulated image-guided procedures. This site will serve as both a training resource for military medical personnel and as a centralized source for the development and production of tailored education and training programs. |
| Project Title: |
Naval Health Research Network Information Exchange |
| Recipient: |
Prometheus Foundation, Inc. |
| Location: |
Frostburg, MD |
| Amount: |
$4,200,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable Prometheus Foundation and Frostburg State University to deploy systems and develop standards-based interfaces to exchange digital health information from civilian patient populations containing Veteran, Guard, Reserve, and DoD beneficiaries to enable a Military\Civilian Network Health Information Exchange. This dual-benefit use evaluation will be developed outside of DoD systems to create a test-bed to support NHRC objectives while providing a free electronic medical record (EMR) system and Health Information Exchange for civilian, university and rural healthcare organizations. |
| Project Title: |
Naval Technical Data Six Sigma Analysis Program |
| Recipient: |
Coalition Solutions Integrated |
| Location: |
Dundalk, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding this project supports employment of Disabled Veterans to analyze weapon systems failure data utilizing Lean Six Sigma techniques. This data is needed by the military Services for operational, maintenance and supply purposes. This initiative improves military readiness, reduces cost and improves Disabled Vets quality of life. Minor training is needed due to prior military experience of these disabled veterans. |
| Project Title: |
Network Centric Operations Laboratory |
| Recipient: |
Morgan State University |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| In response to the changing nature of global conflict away from conventional battle spaces to asymmetric warfare, MSU will join with CERDEC/ARL investigators, to assist in advancing the military's movement towards network centric operations. Funding will enable MSU to establish a test bed to support CERDEC Tactical Human Integration of Networked Knowledge directed at finding the Impact of Human Cognition Limits on Mission Success. |
| Project Title: |
neu Vision - Intelligent Explosives Detection |
| Recipient: |
Applied Signal Technology, Inc. |
| Location: |
Annapolis Junction, MD |
| Amount: |
$4,400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| With increasing terrorist threats and changing world events, the Intelligence Community needs the ability to quickly conduct covert or overt inspection of containers, vehicles, packages and facilities. Associated Particle Imaging (API), provides a transformational capability that unambiguously identifies explosives and other contraband in a portable form factor. The technology utilizes high-energy neutrons to penetrate barriers of any material including steel, interact with the objects on the far side of the barrier, and generate material characteristic gamma rays. |
| Project Title: |
N-STAR Educational Outreach Program (MD) |
| Recipient: |
Office of Naval Research (ONR) - NSTAR |
| Location: |
St. Mary's, Charles, Calvert Counties, MD |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable increased numbers of students (particularly students from under-represented groups) to complete science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees by enhancing student interest and attitudes toward math, science, technology, and engineering; strengthening peer, family, and school support for such interests; ensuring long-term inclusiveness of women and minorities in science and technology programs; and increasing the numbers of students taking college-prep mathematics and science courses. |
| Project Title: |
Real-Time Tactical Intelligence Collection System |
| Recipient: |
Voxtec International, Inc |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Military personnel are increasingly being tasked with operating in war zones where multiple languages are spoken and interpreters are in limited supply. To partially address this need, a limited number of machine based language translation (MBLT) systems have already been deployed to various theaters of operation. Funding will be used to further develop Voxtec's MBLT technologies to develop larger vocabulary and domain sizes for existing systems, to integrate highly mobile speech-to-text capabilities, and to develop mobile text-to-text document translations. |
| Project Title: |
Recombinant BChE Advanced Clinical Development Program |
| Recipient: |
PharmAthene, Inc. |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| OP nerve agents enter the blood stream and cause massive convulsions and death. Human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is a naturally occurring protein shown to be effective against man-made OPs before they cause neurological damage. BChE can now be produced recombinantly and is being developed as a pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis for the military and civilian first responders. Funding will support building upon the current data showing protection against high levels of dermal VX exposure to assess efficacy for therapeutic efficacy against a widened spectrum of agents to include soman, sarin and other organophosphate agents. |
| Project Title: |
Rehabilitation Technology Transition Center |
| Recipient: |
OrthoCare Innovations Foundation |
| Location: |
Columbia, MD |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Technologies developed through DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics initiative represent significant advancements in the field of prosthetics, and the most advanced technology in terms of dexterous manipulation, control and sensory feedback in history. Funding would develop a center to transition federally supported research into patient care to improve the quality of life for injured servicemen and veterans. Specific work of the Center will be to prepare the technology for transition into patient care through the following elements: FDA and regulatory continuity, clinical community transition preparation efforts, tooling and production, and provider education. |
| Project Title: |
Shadow TUAS Flight in the National Air Space |
| Recipient: |
AAI Corporation |
| Location: |
Hunt Valley, MD |
| Amount: |
$11,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) have proven very successful in military applications, and can be used for many valuable non-military purposes. Funds will be used for the development, integration, and testing of technology to facilitate the flight of the Shadow Tactical UAS in the National Air Space. |
| Project Title: |
Smart Wound Dressing for MRSA-infected Battlefield Wounds |
| Recipient: |
Soluble Solutions, Inc |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The US military has the need for one battlefield wound dressing capable of preventing and treating infection, speeding healing and ultimately reducing the morbidity associated with battle injuries, most commonly acute traumatic wounds and full and partial thickness burns. Funding would enable four of the country's renowned medical institutions to conduct advanced clinical research to identify the most effective MRSA resistant antibiotics, the proper dosages of these antibiotics and the most efficient sizes and packages of dressings appropriate for the types of wounds experienced in battlefield situations. |
| Project Title: |
Spinel Transparent Armor Production Technology |
| Recipient: |
Technology Assessment and Transfer, Inc (TA&T) |
| Location: |
Aberdeen, MD |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding supports the transition to production and enables a major manufacturing scale up of Spinel ceramic armor for weight critical, advanced ballistic protection of combat and support vehicles. It will enable a major manufacturing scale up initiative for large flat and curved Spinel armor windows. These large, flat and curved transparent armor windows provide light weight, advanced ballistic protection against escalating threats and emerging tactics of insurgents. This technology is critical for heavily armored vehicles, where current windshields and windows may leave warfighters vulnerable. |
| Project Title: |
Stage 2 Development and Clinical Testing of an Attenuated Malaria Sporozoite Vaccine |
| Recipient: |
Sanaria Inc. |
| Location: |
Rockville, MD |
| Amount: |
$9,400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Sanaria's unique approach to malaria vaccine development capitalizes on the well-documented fact that the only way to reproducibly protect greater than 90% of humans against malaria by immunization is by exposure to radiation attenuated malaria parasite sporozoites. Funding will enable manufacturing and release of Sanaria's attenuated malaria sporozoite vaccine (PfSPZ Vaccine), conducting clinical trials to determine the optimal method of administration and dosage for the PfSPZ Vaccine, and optimizing the efficiency of manufacturing and scale-up of the PfSPZ to facilitate manufacturing to support FDA licensure. |
| Project Title: |
Submarine-Deployed Mobile Sensor System |
| Recipient: |
Oceaneering International |
| Location: |
Hanover, MD |
| Amount: |
$3,500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable design, development, testing and production of three SEAL Delivery Vehicle-deployed Mobile Sensor Systems. Each system consists of 2 remotely operated vehicles, 1 handling system, 1 pilot console. Project would modify existing remotely operated vehicle (ROV) developed by Oceaneering for Navy. This project would enable a SEAL member in SDV to remotely pilot the ROV, thereby enabling entry into areas where SEALs would otherwise not have access. |
| Project Title: |
Substance Activated Fast Evaluation Technology |
| Recipient: |
Raptor Detection, Inc. |
| Location: |
Columbia, MD |
| Amount: |
$4,750,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will procure critically needed explosive detection and classification technology for explosive materials. Using molecularly imprinted polymers that detect and classify explosives, this kit offers military and law enforcement a non-lethal, non-destructive ability to determine whether a person or object possesses explosives on them. Funding would help develop technology and procure up to 100 deployable kits for field testing. |
| Project Title: |
Support for Naval Ship Hydrodynamic Test Facility |
| Recipient: |
Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division |
| Location: |
West Bethesda, MD |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The primary function of the wavemaking equipment is to generate a controlled, uniform wave field over the free water surface of the testing basins. Modern wavemakers must be capable of generating both regular waves of sinusoidal profile having constant height and period as well as irregular waves representative of ocean spectra typically encountered by U.S. Navy. Current test facility wavemakers were installed in early 1950's and 1960's and are incapable of reproducing many of the same wave characteristics from one test to the next. This capability is essential for assessing current and future naval ship and submarine designs, and is integral to national security. |
| Project Title: |
SureTrak Re-architecture: Integrate Services Orientation |
| Recipient: |
Computer Sciences Corporation |
| Location: |
Lexington Park, MD |
| Amount: |
$7,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support re-architecture of SureTrak's software system to a SOA enabling automatic sharing of sensor and system data to various NAWCAD Atlantic Test Range (ATR) software systems and external software systems employed in Homeland Security and Defense with significant cost savings to the Navy and tax payers. Project allows existing sensor software programs in DoD, Homeland Defense, and other governmental agencies to effectively communicate. |
| Project Title: |
Underserved Population Research Initiative with Walter Reed AMC |
| Recipient: |
Anne Arundel Medical Center |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Amount: |
$1,500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will improve enrollment of underserved patients with cancer in clinical trials. Increased capabilities will improve and expand contributions to Walter Reed's Clinical Breast Care Program in ongoing tissue acquisition trials. Purpose is to expand outreach efforts to underserved populations to improve minority participation in both clinical trials and tissue acquisition protocols in which the mechanisms of disease, chiefly cancer, are the focus. |
| Project Title: |
Urban Mapping and Positioning System (UMAPS) |
| Recipient: |
Robotic Research, LLC |
| Location: |
Gaithersburg, MD |
| Amount: |
$1,750,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| UMAPS provides 3D mapping and localization for soldiers as they move through buildings. Data can be radioed to a team leader thus providing unparalleled situational awareness without using GPS. SBIR Phase III funding will allow continued development to ensure a speedy transition and non-interrupted work on UMAPS prototypes for initial evaluation for military use in controlled environments followed by refined prototypes for in-field testing. |
| Project Title: |
Vehicle And Dismount Exploitation Radar - VADER |
| Recipient: |
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems |
| Location: |
Linthicum, MD |
| Amount: |
$8,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| VADER is a multi-mode tactical pod radar capable of detecting and tracking surface vehicles and dismounted personnel. Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) initiated the VADER program with the goal of providing tactical persistent surveillance and tracking of dismounts and vehicles over wide areas of the battle space to combat IEDs. Funding will enable productionization of the sensor, as well as enhanced processing, exploitation and dissemination (PED) capability to transition to a deployed system to support of the warfighter. |
| Project Title: |
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Metro Entrance Design |
| Recipient: |
National Naval Medical Center Bethesda |
| Location: |
Bethesda, MD |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will enable design of a new entrance to the Medical Center Metro station at the site of the future Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. This Metro entrance would include a pedestrian underpass below MD-355 to improve pedestrian mobility and vehicular flow. This design project will help ensure the success of the mission establishing the world-class Walter Reed National Military Medical Center serving our wounded, active and retired military personnel. |
| Project Title: |
WellDoc Mobile Diabetes Management with Automated Clinical Support Tools |
| Recipient: |
WellDoc Communications, Inc. |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding this project will support utilizing WellDoc's mobile diabetes management technology to securely capture real-time data, enabling feedback for patients and health care providers to best manage diabetes. Funding will support WellDoc's diabetes management technology that will reduce the number acute episodes of diabetes including hospitalizations, blindness, and chronic complications from micro and macro-vascular diseases. This technology can save the military health system roughly $1 billion in annual expeditures if utililized throughout the military health system. |
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Energy and Water Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Anacostia River and Tributaries Watershed Restoration |
| Location: |
Montgomery, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$300,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Watershed feasibility study to compile existing watershed data, identify degraded stream conditions in the Anacostia River and identify potential problem solutions. The study will identify problem areas including unstable and eroding stream banks, poor fish habitat and fish blockages, and poor stream buffer conditions (lack of forests and wetlands along the stream). The problems will be ranked and potential solutions identified. |
| Project Title: |
Assateague Island Restoration |
| Location: |
Assateague, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Ocean City inlet was formed in 1933 during a severe storm. In 1934, the Army Corps of Engineers constructed jetties to protect the newly-formed waterway in an effort to provide for navigation between the coastal bays and the ocean. The inlet has functioned as a thoroughfare for boating traffic for the past 60 years; however, the jetties have disrupted the sediment supply between Ocean City and Assateague Island. |
| Project Title: |
Atlantic Coast of Maryland Shoreline Protection |
| Location: |
Ocean City, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$6,351,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The project consisted of widening and raising the beach from 4th street in Ocean City to the Maryland - Delaware line (about 8.2 miles) and a 0.3 mile transition into Delaware, construction of a steel sheetpile bulkhead from 4th street to the north end of the boardwalk at 28th Street (about 1.5 miles), construction of a sand dune from the north end of the boardwalk to the Maryland - Delaware line (about 6.7 miles plus a 0.3 mile transition into Delaware), and project operation and maintenance (non-Federal cost). |
| Project Title: |
Baltimore Harbor and Channel, MD |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$22,513,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| These funds would be used for maintenance dredging of Baltimore District Channels. |
| Project Title: |
Baltimore Metropolitan Water Resources, MD, Gwynns Falls |
| Location: |
Gwynns Falls/Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The focus of the restoration is along two tributaries in the Gwynns Falls Watershed: Dead Run and Maidens Choice Run. Both of these streams are severely degraded, nearly devoid of aquatic life, and rank among the poorest quality streams in the State of Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Baltimore Metropolitan Water Resources, MD, Patapsco Urban River Restoration Initiative |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$200,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Patapsco River is one of the most heavily utilized and populated waterways within Chesapeake Bay, is located in the urbanized areas of central Maryland, and is home to over 750,000 residents. Back River drains the northeastern portions of Baltimore City and southeastern Baltimore County and empties into the Chesapeake Bay. Although the study authority allows for consideration of both the Patapsco and Back Rivers, there currently is no non-Federal interest in pursuing restoration of the tidal portion of Back River. |
| Project Title: |
C&O Canal, Cumberland, MD |
| Location: |
Cumberland, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$100,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The plan envisioned for this area is to rebuild and rewater 1.2 miles of the historic C&O Canal terminus at Cumberland with the hope of transforming the underutilized Potomac riverfront into a showpiece of historical preservation. |
| Project Title: |
Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery |
| Location: |
Baltimore City, MD |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding for equipment and research support for the development of nanomedicine technology to help better diagnosis and treat diseases for the civilian population. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Comprehensive Plan |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$220,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| A comprehensive plan for the purpose of restoring, preserving, and protecting the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem is needed. The plan would include existing state and local plans as well as a federal plan which encompasses all actions proposed to restore, preserve, and protect the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and address the goals of the 2000 Chesapeake Bay Agreement. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Restoration and Protection, Section 510 Program |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$5,070,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Section 510 of WRDA 1996 authorizes the establishment of a pilot program to provide environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. At least one project shall be established in each of the collaborating states. Design and construction costs will be cost-shared at 75% Federal and 25% non-Federal. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Marshlands, MD |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$150,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Chesapeake Bay Marshlands project area includes the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Fishing Bay Wildlife Management Area, and surrounding lands, which form the largest and most significant marsh complex within the Chesapeake Bay watershed and play a key part in the overall ecology of the Chesapeake Bay. The area provides critical winter habitat for thousands of migratory birdsand other endangered species. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery, MD and VA |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Maryland oyster populations have declined dramatically since the turn of the 20th century, largely due to parasitic diseases. Oyster restoration is critical to the economic and environmental survival of the Chesapeake Bay and is a high priority for the State of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Program. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Regional Sediment Management (Sediment Behind the Dams on the Lower Susquehanna River -PA, MD) |
| Location: |
Susquehanna River, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$200,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| As of 1990, it was estimated that 280 million tons of sediment originating from the Susquehanna River watershed were trapped behind the four hydroelectric dams located on the Lower Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace, MD, and Harrisburg, PA. It is estimated that the Conowingo Dam will cease to have trapping capacity in the next decade, which may result in dramatic increases of sediment loads to the Bay. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Shoreline - Maryland Coastal Management |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This feasibility study will result in three semi-independent stand-alone products. The first product is the development of a Maryland shoreline master plan that identifies problems and opportunities throughout the Maryland coastal zone. For those projects that are identified in the master plan to be federally-justified, a Feasibility Study will be prepared for implementation through the Corps' civil works program. The third product is an updated "Low-Cost Shoreline Protection Manual". |
| Project Title: |
Deep Run/Tiber Hudson, Howard County, MD |
| Location: |
Howard County, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The final Ecosystem Restoration Report was issued in July 1999. The recommended plan calls for the construction of 12 projects. These include: two storm water management ponds, three wetland creation sites, and seven stream restoration sites. . |
| Project Title: |
Dog Island Shoals |
| Location: |
Dog Island, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$100,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Dog Island Shoals area is a large expanse of shallow water located at the southern end of Isle of Wight Bay in Worcester County, Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Eastern Shore, Mid Chesapeake Bay, Maryland |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$483,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island Ecosystem Restoration feasibility study is focused on restoring/expanding island habitat to provide hundreds of acres of wetland and terrestrial habitat for fish, shellfish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals through the beneficial use of dredged material. This will provide direct benefits of improved health, richness, and sustainability to aquatic and wildlife species. In addition it will provide indirect benefits of navigational safety, education, and passive recreation and perhaps, increased tourism. |
| Project Title: |
Greenbury Point, Anne Arunel County, MD |
| Location: |
Anne Arundel County, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$136,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in partnership with the City of Annapolis, is studying wetland restoration opportunities along Greenbury Point in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Greenbury Point is a peninsula of land at the mouth of the Severn River. Although, the peninsula has helped protect Annapolis Harbor from storm damage and wave energy, it has suffered severe erosion and wetland loss. |
| Project Title: |
Higher Ed Partnership with the Navy for Research in Atomic Physics |
| Location: |
St. Mary's County, MD |
| Recipient: |
St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| St. Mary's College of Maryland requesting funding to enhance education in Engineering and Atomic Physics in southern Maryland through a collaboration between St. Mary's College of Maryland and the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. The program will provide summer training and research in atomic physics for students from the College and for personnel at the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River - or others wanting to enhance their training in physics and engineering. |
| Project Title: |
Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, DE & MD |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District |
| Amount: |
$7,150,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| These funds would be used for maintenance dredging for the C&D Canal and approach channels, and Replace Main Span Deck Joint over North Pier Chesapeake City Bridge ($650,000).. |
| Project Title: |
Jenning Randolph Lake Dam Safety, MD & VA |
| Location: |
Garrett County, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$600,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Jennings Randolph Lake project, located in Garrett County, Maryland, and Mineral County, West Virginia, on the North Branch Potomac River, is 7.9 miles upstream from the mouth of Savage River at Luke, Maryland. The dam site is located approximately eight miles upstream from the confluence with the Savage River at Bloomington, MD. |
| Project Title: |
Lower Thoroughfare, Somerset County, (Wenona Harbor), MD |
| Location: |
Somerset County, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$1,440,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Maintenance Dredge authorized channel to a project depth of 7 feet - 40,000 cys. The State of Maryland has spent $900,000 to protect the Channel. The state has also approved $1.3 million to buy 14 adjacent acres to expand the County's holdings to expand use of the Harbor by watermen and recreational boaters. |
| Project Title: |
Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commissions (ICPRB, SRBC and DRBC) |
| Location: |
Statewide |
| Recipient: |
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin and Susquehanna River Basin Commission and Delaware River Basin Commission |
| Amount: |
$2,365,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will meet the federal government's equitable funding requirements pursuant to the compacts that created the SRBC, DRBC & ICPRB and the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 |
| Project Title: |
Middle Potomac River Watershed, MD, VA, PA, WV, DC Comprehensive Plan |
| Location: |
Potomac, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$650,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This sustainable watershed management approach addresses a broad spectrum of problems and reflects the diversity of the landscape of the Potomac basin, which includes urban, rural, and natural areas in six different eco-regions and five local jurisdictions-MD, PA, VA, WV, and DC. |
| Project Title: |
Middle Potomac Watershed, Great Seneca Creek and Muddy Branch |
| Location: |
Montgomery, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$281,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Watershed feasibility study to identify degraded stream conditions in Great Seneca Creek and Muddy Branch and the feasibility of corrective solutions. The study will identify problem areas including unstable and eroding stream banks, poor fish habitat, and poor stream buffer conditions (lack of forests and wetlands along the stream). The resulting inventory of potential restoration projects will be implemented by the Corps of Engineers and/or Montgomery County. |
| Project Title: |
Northwest Branch Anacostia |
| Location: |
Anacostia, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| A feasibility study addressing fish and wildlife restoration in the NW Branch sub-basin of the Anacostia watershed was initiated in September 1996. The final ecosystem restoration report was approved in December 2000. The project plan consists of a $4.6-million stream restoration project, involving 11 restoration areas. |
| Project Title: |
Paint Branch Fish Passage, MD |
| Location: |
Prince George's County, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$280,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Paint Branch Fish Passage and Stream Restoration Project is located in the Anacostia River watershed in Prince George's County, Maryland. The Anacostia River watershed has been identified by the Chesapeake Bay Program as one of three priorities for restoration in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. |
| Project Title: |
Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration at Poplar Island, MD |
| Location: |
Poplar Island, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$13,550,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project involves the use of approximately 68 million cubic yards (mcy) of dredged material from the approach channels of the Baltimore Harbor and Channels navigation project to restore 1,715 acres of remote island habitat. The project will consist of 840 acres of upland habitat at an elevation up to +25 feet, 737 acres of wetland habitat that would be further divided into low marsh and high marsh, and approximately 138 acres of open water embayment. |
| Project Title: |
Rhodes Point, MD |
| Location: |
Rhodes Point, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$2,863,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Rhodes Point is located along the southwestern shoreline of Smith Island in Somerset County, Maryland. The small pockets of uplands are used as residential portions of the three towns: Tylerton, Ewell and Rhodes Point. The area of interest during this study was Sheep Pen Gut, which connects Rhodes Point to the Chesapeake Bay. The current Federal navigation channel that serves Rhodes Point goes through Sheep Pen Gut. The primary navigation problem being experienced by the waterman is the rapid shoaling in the existing Federal channel. |
| Project Title: |
Submerged Aquative Vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay |
| Location: |
Chesapeake, MD |
| Recipient: |
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| SAV performs many important ecosystem functions and the Chesapeake Bay Program had established a goal of planting at least 1,000 acres of SAV by December 2010. At present, most SAV planting projects are small in scale, typically less than 1 acre. |
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Financial Services Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
BioPark |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Location: |
University of Maryland at Baltimore |
| Amount: |
$3,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The UMB BioPark in West Baltimore will help establish the Baltimore region as a worldwide center for scientific research and discovery while simultaneously revitalizing an economically distressed neighborhood. The requested funding for physical infrastructure and workforce training will enable UMB to leverage the nearly $400,000,000 in biomedical research that is being conducted by its faculty to create dozens of new biotech businesses, over $400 million in private capital investment, and the creation of 2,500 jobs in a distressed community. |
| Project Title: |
Capital and Preventive Maintenance Projects for WMATA |
| Location: |
Prince George's County and Montgomery County, MD, and Washington, DC |
| Location: |
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
| Amount: |
$150,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Sometimes known as "America's Subway," WMATA was created in 1966 primarily to serve the federal government. Many Metrorail stations were built at the request of the federal government, and nearly half of all stations are located at federal facilities. Federal employees comprise 40% of WMATA's peak ridership, and millions of others use the WMATA system each year to visit the Nation's Capital or conduct business with the federal government. WMATA is also a critical component for ensuring continuity of federal government operations during an emergency, and federal recovery plans rely heavily on WMATA, which played a key role on September 11, 2001. The federal funds requested would be matched dollar-for-dollar by the supporting jurisdictions, resulting in approximately 7,140 jobs created or retained. |
| Project Title: |
East County Science and Technology Center |
| Location: |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Location: |
Montgomery County Department of Economic Development |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support the design, planning and construction of a 60,000 green tech business incubator. The facility itself will be a LEED building providing office and lab space to entrepreneurs and small businesses dedicated to creating alternative fuels, sustainable products, green chemistry and other water and energy technologies. The green incubator is expected to house 20-25 new businesses, with about 80% of those companies graduating from the incubator every three to four years. These graduating companies will likely expand in Maryland, and create an estimated 460 well-paying new jobs in Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Food and Drug Administration Consolidation |
| Location: |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Location: |
General Services Administration |
| Amount: |
$300,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The FDA consolidation is a $1.1 billion project to construct 15 new office and laboratory buildings on the site of a former Navy R&D facility at White Oak in Montgomery County, Maryland. To date, Congress has appropriated $842 million for the project. The consolidation will result in greatly improved facilities and significant operating efficiencies, enabling FDA to better regulate the drug and medical devices industries and protect the country against bioterrorism. The project will provide modern facilities that have been lacking, improve security, and save taxpayer money on commercial leases. Prior to the consolidation, FDA had been spending $30+ million annually on commercial leased space. The project will result in 9,000 permanent jobs, more than twice the number on the site before the Navy left in 1995. The funding will maintain over 1,000 construction jobs on the site through 2012. |
| Project Title: |
Minority and Women Owned Business Program |
| Location: |
Hagerstown, MD |
| Location: |
City of Hagertown |
| Amount: |
$650,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Hagerstown plans an aggressive outreach and support program designed to increase the number of minority and women-owned businesses in its city. The City seeks to diversify its historically high quality manufacturing businesses by ensuring that women and racial minorities can take advantage of entrepreneurial activities. The funds requested would be used to create opportunities and increase the number, magnitude, and success rate of minority and women owned businesses in Hagerstown. The proposed program would offer technical assistance to prospective business owners by offering professional staff to help them develop solid business plans, apply for SBA loans, and connect them with lending institutions. The corner stone of the program will be a low-interest revolving loan fund to provide participants with start-up capital. This loan program will complement the program's assistance with SBA loans and financial package preparation services. The success of this program will be measured by the number of potential owners served by this program and by the number of successful business launches. |
| Project Title: |
Rural Business Innovation Initiative - Eastern Shore |
| Location: |
Columbia, MD |
| Location: |
Maryland Technology Development Corporation |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The project is designed to stimulate innovation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and facilitate the growth of technology companies relevant for the sustanability and growing demands on rural communities. Specialists would provide intensive entrepreneurial training to individuals with follow-on mentoring and business and technical assistance to ensure successful company development. TEDCO would work with local economic development officials to identify entrepreneurs; engage federal laboratory and university technology licensing offices to identify technology available for commercialization; and utilize federal funds to invest in small businesses developing national priority technologies that would aid the Eastern Shore in creating an economically competitive, innovative and prosperous region. |
| Project Title: |
School of Pharmacy Lab Equipment |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Location: |
College of Notre Dame of Maryland |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| College of Notre Dame is in the process of launching the first women's college nationally to have a co-educational School of Pharmacy. It is no secret that as a country we need to educate more pharmacists or the expected pharmacist labor shortfall will create a major crisis for the delivery of quality health care. This is important from a small business perspective because (according to the NCPA) thousands of pharmacies are small businesses that dispense "nearly half of the nation's retail prescription medicines." In addition, a 2007 Department of Labor report for the state of Maryland indicates a projected (2007 - 2016 Maryland Occupational Projections) increase in the number of open pharmacist positions to be 200 per year, resulting in a 35% gap between the need and availability of pharmacists based on the current number of graduates from the State. This gap will directly hurt the ability of small business pharmacies in Maryland to recruit its next generation of qualified employees. In order to graduate pharmacists who will provide quality care, the School needs state of the art laboratory facilities to educate the next generation of pharmacists who will care for the aging population. |
| Project Title: |
Small Business Office |
| Location: |
Prince George's County, MD |
| Location: |
Prince George's County EDC |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| In collaboration with alliance partners, the Small Business Initiative (SBI) provides direct assistance to the rapid-growth potential small and minority-owned businesses located in Prince George's County. Additionally the SBI will provide access to: capital, contract awards, and comprehensive one-stop-shop delivery of entrepreneurial training, management consulting and technical assistance. Companies are also assisted by a host of training, as well as one-on-one counseling services. |
| Project Title: |
Study of the Long-term Economic Effects of an Aging US Population |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Location: |
Board of Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (National Academies) |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The aging of the U.S. population will require large scale readjustments to the nation's macro economy and financial state, affecting individuals, households, government, many economic sectors, and public programs such as Social Security, Medicare and private mechanisms to support retirees.
Without bold and far reaching actions the potential for economic disruption may easily exceed challenges of the current financial crisis. As a basis for policymaking, this request proposes that the National Academy of Sciences undertake a study to assemble a solid and complete base of information and analysis to support rational discussion of policy choices. Within the National Academy, the Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications will manage the study.
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Interior and Environment Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Blackwater NWR/ Tubman - USFWS Land Acquisition |
| Location: |
Dorchester, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Blackwater NWR |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Protection of the four parcels totaling 1,803.5 acres will add to the permanently protected lands the Blackwater National Refuges (NWR) around its borders. The Conservation fund is working with the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect 4 parcels totaling 1,803.50 acres via fee acquisition and conservation easement within the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge boundary. Because of its extensive wetlands and strategic location on the Atlantic flyway, the Blackwater NWR features outstanding habitat for migratory waterfowl including snow geese and a variety of ducks. The property also provides habitat for a variety of plant and wildlife species, including the federally endangered Delmarva Fox Squirrel. The refuge provides an amenity for local residents and an attraction for visitors, as part of an overall economic development strategy based on tourism and maintaining a high quality of life.
FWS has the authority to acquire the tract as provided by the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 460l - 460l-11). In addition, because this property is directly adjacent to the existing Blackwater NWR boundary, the USFWS has the authority to acquire the property under the Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan (authorized by the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966, as amended by the National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C 668).
In FY 2009 Omnibus bill, Congress appropriated $1,000,000 to acquire sensitive lands for Blackwater NWR. This request mirrors the President's budget submission for FY2010 of $2,000,000 for this purpose. |
| Project Title: |
Blue Plains WWTP - Construction of Enhanced Nutrient Removal Technology and Underground Storage Tunnel System |
| Location: |
Montgomery and Prince George Counties, Maryland and the District of the Columbia |
| Recipient: |
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The proposed project entails planning, design and construction of Biological Nutrient Removal and Enhanced Nutrient Removal facilities at the existing 370 million gallons per day Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant to achieve effluent concentrations of 3 mg/l total nitrogen. If ENR is not implemented at this plant, Maryland will not achieve and maintain its nutrient reduction goals for the Chesapeake Bay. The additional funds will support the upgrade of the one of the largest WWTP in the nation and reduce nitrogen loading to the Chesapeake Bay by 5.6 million pounds per year. |
| Project Title: |
Canal Creek Groundwater Treatment Plant to Waste |
| Location: |
Harford County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Harford County Government |
| Amount: |
$700,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Harford waste-to-energy (WTE) facility produces steam for Aberdeen Proving Ground, but cannot meet the expanding needs of the Army as a result of base realignment and closure. To increase capacity, construction of a wastewater pipeline from the Groundwater Plant to the WTE facility is warranted. Funding would be used for the design and construction of a pipeline for wastewater reuse from the Joppatowne Wastewater Treatment Plant to the proposed County Resource Recovery Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG). |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Water Trails |
| Location: |
Chesapeake Bay Watershed |
| Recipient: |
National Park Service |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Gateways and Water Trails Network (CBGN) is a partnership of public and private parks, refuges, maritime museums, historic sites, and around the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The CBGN is coordinated by the National Park Service in cooperation with the Chesapeake Bay Program. With more than 150 designated Gateways and over 1,500 miles of Water Trails, the CBGN provides essential infrastructure for the developing Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. Funding for CBGN supports both matching grants to participating Gateway sites for development of high-quality interpretation, access, or conservation and restoration projects and a series of initiatives that support the entire Network. Visitation at the Gateway sites exceeds 10 million annually. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay Program Office |
| Location: |
Chesapeake Bay (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| Recipient: |
EPA, Chesapeake Bay Program Office |
| Amount: |
$40,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office is the official and most prominent Federal face of the restoration effort. The Program Office provides state implementation grants, watershed monitoring grants and grants to support Small and Large Watershed projects. Financial assistance to this Program is essential to accelerate the restoration efforts underway in the watershed. The President's budget request for FY2010 includes $35,100,000 for this program. This request is to increase that amount to the fully authorized level of $40,000,000. |
| Project Title: |
Funding for Study to Assess Water Availability in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont Regions |
| Location: |
Multiple Counties, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Department of the Environment |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This study will assess water availability in two of the State's aquifer systems and develop science-based tools to facilitate sound management of the State's water resources. Growing water demands for finite fresh water resources require a better understanding of Maryland's hydrologic/ecologic systems to water withdrawals. This request supports Phase II of a planned three Phase effort. The state has completed Phase I without federal support, but requires USGS expertise and federal funding to complete Phase II. Maryland has already committed $265,000 of matching funds for this Phase. |
| Project Title: |
Hagerstown Transmission Mains Water System Upgrade Project |
| Location: |
Washington |
| Recipient: |
Hagerstown |
| Amount: |
$700,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The requested funds would replace the two 24-inch transmission mains that provide service directly to Zone 1 and currently to the West End Reservoir. The Zone 1 pipe is over 80 years old and is cast iron and the Zone 2 pipe is constructed of concrete and was placed into service over 40 years ago. |
| Project Title: |
Improvements to Combined Cumberland and Frostburg Sanitary and Combined Sewer Infrastructure |
| Location: |
Allegany, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Cities of Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This is an ongoing project that involves improvements to the existing Frostburg and Cumberland sanitary and combined sewer infrastructure to prevent combined sewer overflows. The two cities share sewer infrastructure. Specifically, the project consists of the planning, design and construction of gravity and pressure sewers, replacement and rehabilitation of existing sewer lines, and upgrades of pumping stations, and other related improvements to prevent combined sewer overflows (CSO). |
| Project Title: |
Initiate Management Plan and Conduct Transportation Planning for Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail |
| Location: |
Various sites in Maryland and Virginia |
| Recipient: |
Chesapeake Bay Program Office, SSB National Historic Trail |
| Amount: |
$600,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project is to undertake the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail Comprehensive Management Plan, conducted by the Chesapeake Bay Program Office, in partnership with Fort McHenry and Maryland's Department of Business and Economic Development. The Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail was enacted during the 110th Congress. Rapid development of the management plan is needed in order to appropriately plan for the upcoming bicentennial of the War of 1812 which culminated at the Battle of Baltimore and the celebrated role of the Star-Spangled Banner flying over Fort McHenry. |
| Project Title: |
Lower Susquehanna Heritage Trail |
| Location: |
Harford and Cecil Counties, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| To construct heritage trails that creates connectivity between the riverfront communities of Harford and Cecil Counties in Maryland for the purpose of regional economic development, recreation and environmental stewardship. |
| Project Title: |
Patapsco WWTP - Construction of Enhanced Nutrient Removal |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Baltimore City c/o Bureau of Water and Wastewater |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The project involves planning, design, and construction of Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) and Enhanced Nutrient Removal (ENR) facilities at the existing Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to achieve 3 mg/l total nitrogen and 0.3 mg/l total phosphorus in its effluent water quality. Nutrient removal at the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant is essential for the success of Maryland's effort to achieve reduction in the amount of nutrients discharged to the Chesapeake Bay and to meet its commitments under the Chesapeake Bay 2000 Agreement, prevent further impairment of the Chesapeake Bay, and move forward toward its restoration. |
| Project Title: |
Rockville Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project |
| Location: |
Montgomery, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Rockville, MD |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This is a sewer system rehabilitation project including manhole rehabilitation, sewer lining, and inflow prevention. It will repair the pipes and manholes to reduce Infiltration and Inflow. System rehabilitation will include manhole rehabilitation, sewer lining, and inflow prevention to decrease flow in sewers and ultimately reduces flow to the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant.
In addition to these requests for funding support, I also request that the Committee include the following report language in the section of the Report dealing with the Environmental Protection Agency's STAG grants.
The Committee recognizes the important role that large, regional advanced wastewater treatment plants have played over the years in cleaning up some of our most important and valued waters. The Committee further recognizes that the systems represent an enormous investment of Federal, state and local funds and must be continually upgraded and modernized. In some cases these systems serve multiple jurisdictions and are subject to compacts and cost-sharing agreements based upon proportionality of use. The Committee expects that where there are multiple jurisdictions with binding agreements, the benefits, efficiencies and savings of direct Federal grant funding should be allocated to all of the jurisdictions in direct proportion to what is contained in the agreements.
This report language ensures that Federal funding for any regional wastewater treatment facility operated under a joint cost sharing agreement will be applied equitably to all regional cost-sharing partners. |
| Project Title: |
Sligo Creek Bioretention Demonstration Project |
| Location: |
Prince George's County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Prince George's County |
| Amount: |
$1,200,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Trash problems in the Anacostia River watershed have recently received extensive attentions from both EPA and the State. They are developing mandatory strategies for the County to implement. This project will be part of this effort, reducing the most visible sign of pollution in a river that has been called one of the most polluted in the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. |
| Project Title: |
Sligo Creek Urban Watershed Restoration |
| Location: |
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$1,832,875.00 |
| Description of Project: |
| Sligo Creek Urban Watershed Restoration project is a joint effort to clean stormwater in Sligo Creek by Montgomery and Prince George's Counties. This project is part of a larger effort to restore the Anacostia River and is essential for implementing the Anacostia Watershed Restoration plan. The Anacostia is a heavily urbanized watershed and the river has been identified as one of the most heavily polluted ones in the Chesapeake Watershed. |
| Project Title: |
Snow Hill POTW |
| Location: |
Snow Hill, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Town of Snow Hill, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The project will include necessary repairs and up-grades, including enhanced nutrient removal (ENR) treatment. The facility is needed to provide basic health and water quality requirements of the community. ENR is required in order to meet the strict nutrient reduction requirements in order to restore water quality and biological abundance to the Chesapeake Bay. The project is considered a priority by the State of Maryland and currently ranks #7 on the state's list of priority projects. |
| Project Title: |
WERF Water Quality Research |
| Location: |
National |
| Recipient: |
Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) |
| Amount: |
$7,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| WERF Conducts water quality research nationally in areas such as infrastructure management, wet weather (runoff) control, biosolids handling and wastewater utility responses to climate change. This group will provide the state essential data as we redevelop our management strategy for the Chesapeake Bay. |
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Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Adventist Health Information Technology Education |
| Location: |
Rockville, MD |
| Recipient: |
Adventist Healthcare System |
| Amount: |
$300,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support an extensive electronic medical records (EMR) training program that will prepare all staff for the future of healthcare information technology and will enable Adventist HealthCare to provide the highest possible quality patient care to Marylanders. |
| Project Title: |
Bowie State University's Principals' Institute |
| Location: |
Bowie, MD |
| Recipient: |
Bowie State University |
| Amount: |
$350,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Bowie State University, in cooperation with the Prince George's County Public Schools, will implement a Principals' Institute that will be designed to prepare individuals who wish to qualify as principals in elementary, middle/junior high, and high schools in the County, as well as to strengthen and enhance the leadership and administrative skills of those already in leadership positions in the public schools. |
| Project Title: |
Cancer Center Upgrades |
| Location: |
Hagerstown, MD |
| Recipient: |
Washington County Hospital |
| Amount: |
$596,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The John Marsh Cancer Center at Washington County Hospital requires two new pieces of equipment to stay in the forefront of cancer treatment technology Doing so will improve patient care with shortened treatment times and positive, targeted radiation dosing. |
| Project Title: |
Carroll County Youth Service Bureau |
| Location: |
Westminster, MD |
| Recipient: |
Carroll County Youth Service Bureau |
| Amount: |
$750,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Carroll County Youth Service Bureau (CCYSB) provides a continuum of community-based mental health services for children, adults, and families throughout Carroll County. Under-construction, the CCYSB Outpatient Mental Health Clinic increases services to over 3,600 families annually. Funding would support the increased administrative and clinical needs due to the expansion of service. |
| Project Title: |
Center for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| Location: |
Towson, MD |
| Recipient: |
Towson University |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Towson University will fully develop the Center for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders to address critical unmet needs of adults with autism through model programs that are used to educate a wide range of professionals and to disseminate findings. Funding will support professional development, applied research, program evaluation, and other resources. |
| Project Title: |
Center for Health Informatics, Planning & Policy |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Morgan State University |
| Amount: |
$647,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Morgan State University's Center for Health Informatics, Planning and Policy (CHIPP) would identify and disseminate "best practices" to help leaders and communities understand the social determinants/impact of health disparities and improve health for urban and underserved populations and minorities. |
| Project Title: |
CentroNia Teacher Training and Quality Improvement |
| Location: |
Takoma Park, MD |
| Recipient: |
CentroNia |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| CentroN��a proposes to prepare early childhood providers for national certification and develop state-wide training to improve the quality of the early childhood workforce while providing access to low-cost early childhood education for low-income working families. Through the program, 200 teachers will receive certifiable professional development in a classroom-lab setting while 60+ low income children will gain access to a full-day Pre-K program. |
| Project Title: |
Chesapeake Bay STEM Mentors Initiative |
| Location: |
Salisbury, MD |
| Recipient: |
Salisbury University |
| Amount: |
$320,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Salisbury University's Chesapeake Bay STEM Mentors Initiative is a multi-disciplinary approach designed to build capacity across several academic programs and align faculty expertise to better address the challenges of increasing the supply of new STEM teachers, improving the skills of current STEM teachers, and enlarging the pre-collegiate pipeline. |
| Project Title: |
Children's Hospital at Sinai (Children's Diagnostic Center) |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Children's Hospital at Sinai |
| Amount: |
$830,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Children's Hospital at Sinai will provide much needed additional capacity and space for an additional 600 patient discharges annually (for 3,341 total per annum) through the development of the Children's Diagnostic Center. In the absence of such a facility, Maryland's pediatric population will have to travel for treatment. If child-health problems are not identified and treated, they can affect a child's cognitive, physical, behavioral and emotional development. Maryland does not currently have adequate treatment facilities. |
| Project Title: |
CHIP Community Health Center Electronic Patient Record |
| Location: |
Glen Burnie, MD |
| Recipient: |
Community Health Integrated Partnership, Inc. (CHIP) |
| Amount: |
$902,142 |
| Description of Project: |
| Community Health Integrated Partnership, (CHIP) is in the process of implementing an Electronic Patient Record System (EPRS) in 9 federally qualified community health centers representing 53 clinical delivery sites throughout Maryland. The goal of the use of the EPRS is to avoid delayed attainment of health care and improve patients' health status - goals that not only will result in a healthier Maryland but will save the state millions in inappropriate emergency department utilization and the exacerbation of chronic disease. |
| Project Title: |
Classroom Technology Upgrade Project |
| Location: |
Largo, MD |
| Recipient: |
Prince George's Community College |
| Amount: |
$640,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Prince George's Community College proposes to upgrade its classrooms to the generally accepted technology standard in higher education today. A modern, technologically enhanced classroom is necessary to provide faculty and students with a stimulating teaching and learning environment and provide access to data, information and applications that are necessary and expected by today's learners. |
| Project Title: |
Clean Water Jobs Training Initiative |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Recipient: |
Chesapeake Bay Trust |
| Amount: |
$750,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Chesapeake Bay Trust proposes a new green jobs program - the Clean Water Jobs Training Initiative - to help address two of Maryland's most pressing needs: Chesapeake Bay clean-up and increased employment. This new program will train hundreds of youth and adults, with a special focus on at-risk young people, lower-income workers, and transitioning watermen. |
| Project Title: |
College 101: St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| Location: |
St. Mary's City, MD |
| Recipient: |
St. Mary's College of Maryland |
| Amount: |
$200,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| St. Mary's College has developed a program called College 101 to assist women and minority students with entrance to and transition to college as well as piquing interest in math and science programs. Additional funding will allow for its exapansion to reach more students, which is particularly important as many more students view college as unattainable in these difficult economic times. |
| Project Title: |
Coming Full Circle: Continuing Education & Workforce Development Program |
| Location: |
Brentwood, MD |
| Recipient: |
Family Crisis Center, Inc. |
| Amount: |
$185,171 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Coming Full Circle Program will assist survivors of domestic violence in mastering general education courses equivalent to a high school diploma, improved adult literacy and math skills, and with obtaining a certified, employable skill or trade to re-enter the workforce. Additionally, Prince George's Community College will add a domestic violence education course component to its spring curriculum to be facilitated by Family Crisis Center counselors. |
| Project Title: |
Comprehensive Services and Treatments for Children |
| Location: |
Rockville, MD |
| Recipient: |
Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) |
| Amount: |
$450,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Jewish Social Service Agency offers comprehensive programs and services aimed to remediate the psychological, emotional and economic impacts of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on children, adolescents and young adults, their families and society as a whole to the greatest extent possible. Funding for this program will enable JSSA to expand its modest program and to offer specialized services on a significantly larger scale. |
| Project Title: |
Doleman Collection |
| Location: |
Hagerstown, MD |
| Recipient: |
City of Hagerstown |
| Amount: |
$150,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Doleman Collection is a very large collection of memorabilia detailing the history of African-Americans in Maryland. The project seeks to once again open the display to the public, thereby providing access, interpretation, and educational opportunities to Washington County students and the general public. |
| Project Title: |
Engineering Laboratory |
| Location: |
California, MD |
| Recipient: |
Southern Maryland Higher Education Center |
| Amount: |
$100,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Southern Maryland Higher Education Center is an innovative concept whereby several Maryland higher education institutions partner to teach extension courses in Southern Maryland. The facility has become extremely successful and is now in the process of an expansion so that additional course offerings and degrees may be realized. Funding would support equipment for a new engineering laboratory toward that purpose. |
| Project Title: |
Expanding Excellence and Mentoring |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
National Federation for the Blind |
| Amount: |
$651,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| In 2005 the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), with support from a grant from the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), established the NFB National Center for Mentoring Excellence (NCME). This project will link blind and low-vision youth with successful blind mentors for the purpose of increased post-secondary academic success, high-quality employment, and community integration. |
| Project Title: |
Expanding Health Care Access to the Uninsured |
| Location: |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Recipient: |
Holy Cross Hospital |
| Amount: |
$934,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Holy Cross Hospital proposes to expand health care access to Montgomery County's uninsured by opening a third clinic in the Wheaton/Aspen Hill area. A third clinic will provide the capacity to move uninsured residents to a "medical home," improving their health and reducing the burden on hospital emergency rooms, where many uninsured seek care. |
| Project Title: |
Expansion of Information and Referral Line |
| Location: |
Centreville, MD |
| Recipient: |
Queen Anne's County Community Partnerships for Children and Families |
| Amount: |
$103,626 |
| Description of Project: |
| The majority of the counties on the Upper Eastern Shore are designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas in medical, dental and mental health. This project will document where there are gaps in services and assist the public in connecting to a primary care facility rather than using emergency room services. |
| Project Title: |
Expansion of Youth Services Bureau (YSB) Programming |
| Location: |
Greenbelt, MD |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Association of Youth Services Bureaus |
| Amount: |
$1,501,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Youth Service Bureaus (YSBs) are located in the areas of Maryland where 75% of Maryland's youth live. While they are strategically placed, they are unable to meet the demand for delinquency prevention services. The expansion of YSBs would strengthen and increase the availability of prevention and diversion services in Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Garrett County Career Technology Training Center |
| Location: |
Oakland, MD |
| Recipient: |
Board of Garrett County Commission |
| Amount: |
$750,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Garrett County, Maryland, proposes the development of a technology training center offering a varied curriculum including welding, building trades, automation, robotics, healthcare, and energy/transportation technology. The goal of this initiative is to educate post secondary learners to gain job skills and improve prospects for higher pay/benefits jobs. An educated workforce contributes to regional economic growth and development. |
| Project Title: |
Healthy Babies |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Baltimore City Health Department |
| Amount: |
$1,045,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Baltimore's infant mortality rate is disproportionately higher than the national average. By providing services, education and tools that ameliorate the factors contributing to infant mortality, anticipated outcomes include a 5% annual decrease in poor birth outcomes to women defined as high-risk, thereby increasing good birth outcomes to 70% for the one year project period. |
| Project Title: |
Helping Obtain Medically Essential Services (HOMES) |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Disability Law Center |
| Amount: |
$250,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Maryland Disability Law Center's (MDLC's) HOMES Project will facilitate the purpose and intent of the federal Medicaid program by combining community outreach and education; dissemination of informational materials; individual client representation and technical assistance, advice and referral; elimination of the systemic barriers resulting in service denials; and training, referrals, and technical assistance for pro bono attorneys. |
| Project Title: |
Helping Transition Aged-Youth |
| Location: |
Upper Marlboro, MD |
| Recipient: |
Prince George's County |
| Amount: |
$400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| In Prince George's County, there are more than 3,000 young adults aged 18-21 years whom have either dropped out of high school or are at high risk of dropping out due to a lack of mental health supports for youth in this age group. Requested funding will support an evidence-based program "Transition to Independence Process" (TIP) is that encourages youth to be fully engaged in their future planning processes and also provides timely access to services across all systems of care. |
| Project Title: |
Innovative Aging-in-Place Service |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore |
| Amount: |
$300,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore will offer an innovative model of services for seniors aimed at early interventions, keeping seniors healthy, maintaining social engagement, and encouraging independence to help seniors live at home for as long as possible. |
| Project Title: |
The Judith P. Hoyer Center for Early Childhood Learning and Innovation at the National Children's Museum |
| Location: |
Washington DC, Prince George's County Maryland |
| Recipient: |
National Children's Museum |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Named for Judith P. Hoyer, former coordinating supervisor of early childhood education in Prince George's County, the Center at the National Children's Museum will generate and disseminate information and resources to help children thrive, families flourish, and educators excel. Through its four cornerstones--family literacy, learning communities, the Museum Without Walls, and research and policy--The Center will bring the work of the existing "Judy Centers" to a national audience by linking thousands of educators, parents, and childcare providers across the nation with a whole-child, whole-community approach to learning. |
| Project Title: |
"Keep Kids Moving" Obesity Prevention in Baltimore |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Baltimore Department of Recreation and Parks |
| Amount: |
$296,700 |
| Description of Project: |
| Beginning October 1, 2010, the goal of this after-school/out-of-school project is to implement a year-long sequence of structured physical fitness programs, team and individual sports, and nutrition education at 46 recreation centers throughout Baltimore City. "Keep Kids Moving" programs will improve cardiovascular capacity, coordination and promote healthy physical development in youth. Peer groups will learn to be supportive and to motivate obese youth, family and friends to take part in more physical activities. |
| Project Title: |
Kennedy Cluster HS Linkages to Learning |
| Location: |
Rockville, MD |
| Recipient: |
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services |
| Amount: |
$1,358,956 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funding will support the expansion of Montgomery County's Linkages to Learning program. In this program, comprehensive social and health services are focused on children and families who frequently do not receive or do not access services due to the barriers of transportation, language, and financial means. |
| Project Title: |
Life Skills Program |
| Location: |
Capitol Heights, MD |
| Recipient: |
Mission of Love Charities, Inc. |
| Amount: |
$100,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Mission of Love Charities, Inc. Life Skills Program (LS) is designed to help individuals enter job market, secure employment and higher paying jobs, and improve their lives. The program involves a 5 phase process that helps participants focus and understand the changing demographic base of the world of work while introducing them to the need of continuing investing into their human capital. |
| Project Title: |
Maryland Biotechnology Outreach Program (MBOP) |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute |
| Amount: |
$2,900,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| UMBI and the MdBio Foundation will leverage their resources to provide STEM learning opportunities for Maryland teachers and students through a mobile lab outreach program. A mobile lab program will provide exposure to real-world biotechnology applications, activities, and students will be encouraged to consider careers in STEM fields. |
| Project Title: |
Maryland/National Capital Region Emergency Preparedness Partnership |
| Location: |
Prince George's County, MD |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This multi-year project beginning in FY10 with planning and early implementation funds for the establishment of a partnership among Prince George's Hospital Center, Malcolm Grow Medical Center on Andrews Air Force Base, and the University of Maryland Medical Systems which will enhance national, regional and local preparedness and capacity to respond to large-scale medical emergencies resulting from biological, chemical or nuclear attacks, pandemics or other mass casualty events in the National Capital Region and the State of Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Maryland Unified Oral Health Messaging and Social Marketing Campaign |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Oral Health |
| Amount: |
$2,500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This statewide oral health literacy and social marketing campaign for the public and health care providers develops key oral health messages to help increase access to dental care. The project educates low-income, high-risk families about the importance of oral health and preventive behaviors including working with dental and medical providers to teach home care behaviors, and empower families to make and keep dental appointments. The project fosters cost-effective educational and preventive dental health approaches that saves the taxpayer from costly treatment of dental and medical diseases and offers social value in enhancing children's readiness to learn. |
| Project Title: |
Mid-Maryland Community College Allied Healthcare |
| Location: |
Columbia, MD |
| Recipient: |
Howard Community College |
| Amount: |
$1,800,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Carroll, Frederick, and Howard Community Colleges are building on an existing academic arrangement to further enhance access to workforce education programs in their counties. The three colleges will be offering healthcare programs in a joint facility in Mt. Airy, Maryland. Specifically, funding would support science, medical, and computer laboratory equipment. |
| Project Title: |
Office of the Bethesda Hospital's Emergency Preparedness Partnership |
| Location: |
Bethesda, MD |
| Recipient: |
Suburban Hospital |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Bethesda Hospital's Emergency Preparedness Partnership seeks to build on its comprehensive disaster management response by establishing the Office of the Bethesda Hospital's Emergency Preparedness Partnership. The new Office will ensure that resources, structures, and processes are developed, tested and transformed into an exportable emergency preparedness health care response model. |
| Project Title: |
Pediatric Emergency Department Expansion |
| Location: |
Annapolis, MD |
| Recipient: |
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Expansion of the Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) ED to create a dedicated Peditric Emergency Department will provide increased patient safety and greater access to immediate care. The project addresses the quality of care, treatment space shortages, patient wellbeing, wait times, and admission delays in the ED by reconfiguring existing space, new construction, and expanding into new space. The hospital will measure the success of this initiative by evaluating wait times, clinical outcomes, and patient satisfaction. |
| Project Title: |
Roberta's House Grief & Loss Center Programs |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Roberta's House Inc. |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Roberta's House is a preventative, non-clinical, free counseling center serving hundreds of children and families who have experienced a significant loss due to the untimely, often violent death of someone close to them. The center serves as a safe and confidential environment that facilitates emotional, physical, and spiritual healing for families. Special emphasis is placed on developing healthy coping skills in grieving children as a means of stopping the cycle of juvenile violence. Outreach programs will extend to social and health organizations. Funding will support the expansion of services. |
| Project Title: |
Secondary School Transformation Strategy |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Baltimore City Public School System |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| To address the growing problems of increasing drop-out rates, over-age increases, and low percentages of college applicants, the Baltimore City Public School System developed the Transformation School Initiative. Transformation schools provide a more intimate learning environment where teachers are able to mentor students and provide each student with more individualized attention. Six transformation schools opened in 2008-2009 and, thus far, have seen much success. Requested funding for equipment and supplies would support further development of the initiative with the opening of 6 more transformational schools in the next school term. |
| Project Title: |
Sheppard Pratt Affiliates EMR for Mental Health Services |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Sheppard Pratt Health System and Affiliates |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Sheppard Pratt Health System proposes to implement a major statewide Electronic Medical Record program that will serve as a state and national demonstration program and will include a comprehensive evaluation component and technical assistance to the State of Maryland. The project will provide a vital demonstration of how medical errors can be lessened by introduction of an EMR, with particular emphasis on interoperability protocols between various elements of the service system, giving the various treatment elements the information they need from other elements to address consumer concerns more effectively. |
| Project Title: |
Southern Maryland Simulation Alliance for Health Education |
| Location: |
La Plata, MD |
| Recipient: |
College of Southern Maryland |
| Amount: |
$514,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Southern Maryland Simulation Alliance for Health Education project will improve the College of Southern Maryland's capacity to deliver high quality clinical simulation experiences at all three campuses and build a multi-sector alliance for sharing simulation technology and expertise with local hospitals and other schools of nursing in Maryland. Through the alliance, the clinical simulation laboratories will be used to educate and test nursing students and provide competency validation and skill development for hospitals and other health care facilities in the Southern Maryland region. |
| Project Title: |
STEM Education Training for Maryland Teachers |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is an amazing asset for the education community in Maryland and it can be a demonstration model for the role that zoos around the country can play in STEM professional development for K-12, Out of School, preschool and pre-service educators. At a time when STEM education is vitally important to our economy, the Zoo provides a number of avenues to engage children of all ages in science and mathematics, including supporting the Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum. Requested funding will allow the Zoo to further expand professional devleopment programs to reach over 3,000 educators annually, both on and off-site. |
| Project Title: |
Urban Education Corridor |
| Location: |
Baltimore, MD |
| Recipient: |
Coppin State University |
| Amount: |
$1,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Coppin Academy focuses on academic excellence, pre-college preparation, and a global perspective, while building upon the standard curriculum required by Baltimore City and the State of Maryland. The Urban Education Corridor would like to expand its efforts to other schools in the area so that the Corridor to success spreads. Funding will allow The Coppin Urban Education Corridor to: develop and expand its activity base to provide international experiences for students; develop a comprehensive mentorship program; more fully develop the math articulation project; provide scholarships for Coppin Academy graduates. . |
| Project Title: |
Washington College: The Chesapeake Semester |
| Location: |
Chestertown, MD |
| Recipient: |
Washington College |
| Amount: |
$900,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Chesapeake Semester stands as a unique opportunity for students to explore our nation's largest estuary, while doing cutting edge science that can be applied locally, to solve real human and environmental problems. Once the program is developed, it will be a model for shorter versions of the program. These "short courses" will be used for recruitment of prospective students and for teacher training. Further, the project will draw a rich mix of natural scientists, social scientist, and policy makers, who will come together to examine environmental policy. From local implications such as measurements relative to the Chesapeake Bay to nation and global policy discussions, the benefits of the project reach well beyond students of the College. |
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Military Construction Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Advanced Energetics Research Lab (Phase 2) |
| Project Number: |
P-190 |
| Location: |
Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$16,460,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project would construct 19,701SF for Phase 2 of the Advanced Energetics Research Laboratory Complex to enable the RDT&E Directorate to discover and exploit new and advanced materials for weapons applications. Research and development of these energetic materials will lead to the development of new weapons, platform designs and applications to support the warfighter. |
| Project Title: |
Atlantic Test Range Addition |
| Project Number: |
P-155 |
| Location: |
Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$9,820,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project would construct a two-story facility addition to the Telemetry Data Center to support integrated test operations and joint testing with other air ranges and instrumented test facilities for combat systems. |
| Project Title: |
CSM Jerome M. Grollman Readiness Center |
| Project Number: |
P-240017 |
| Location: |
Dundalk, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$16,070,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project would add 51,674SF and alter 10,746SF to adequately house readiness center operations of HHC and Company C 1-175th Infantry Battalion. Current functions are housed in a dilapidated center mostly beyond economic repair. Renovation will include new classrooms, drill space, firing range and showers. |
| Project Title: |
Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center - Advanced Chemistry Laboratory - Phase II |
| Project Number: |
59978 |
| Location: |
Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland |
| Amount: |
$14,600,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project would construct a third and final wing to the Advanced Chemical Laboratory at the Army's Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center at APG, completing the full capability of the original design by adding the final required 10,000SF of laboratory space and additional support space. This project would also provide the final phase of the laboratories necessary to vacate the remaining inadequate 1950-era facility. |
| Project Title: |
Munitions Storage Area |
| Project Number: |
AJXF063009 |
| Location: |
Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$9,900,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project would construct 2,012SM of properly sited, adequately sized and correctly configured munitions storage facilities required to support the National Capitol Region (NCR) operations. Existing facility requires waiver to keep operational and configuration is inadequate to accommodate munitions of current missions. |
| Project Title: |
RDT&E Support Facility |
| Project Number: |
P-189 |
| Location: |
Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$6,230,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project would complete a phased plan to provide for design and construction of a 13,288SF facility adjoining P-188 (Phase I). This facility would consolidate major business and support functions, including financial management, human resource management and contracting. |
| Project Title: |
Replacement Medical and Training Facility |
| Project Number: |
PJMS909928 |
| Location: |
Martin State Airport, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$8,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This project would construct a 21,400SF composite operations and medical facility to support Air National Guard's 175 WG. This replaces a 1960s vintage inefficient and poorly configured facility that does not meet Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) requirement. |
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State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Sickle Cell Disease Global Support Initiative |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The proposed SCD Global Support Initiative would enable cooperative participation of numerous federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services (CDC, HRSA, etc.), the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of State (USAID). In so doing, it will ensure that all relevant federal partners work in concert with national SCD organizations and local partners. |
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Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Requests
| Project Title: |
Baltimore Metropolitan Area Bus Replacement |
| Location: |
Baltimore Metropolitan Area, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Transit Administration |
| Amount: |
$15,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The MTA Maryland bus replacement program seeks to retire units as soon as practicable once they achieve the 12-year life cycle standard mandated by the FTA. The MTA Maryland goal is to replace between 60 and 100 buses annually, depending on the number eligible for retirement pursuant to the FTA regulatory standard. |
| Project Title: |
Baltimore Red Line |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Transit Administration |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Baltimore Red Line is a proposed 14-mile light rail or bus rapid transit line extending from the Woodlawn area of Baltimore County, Maryland through downtown Baltimore City to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Campus in East Baltimore. |
| Project Title: |
BRAC-related Improvements - Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland |
| Location: |
Andrew's Air Force Base, Prince George's County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
MDOT |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funds would be used for design, right-of-way or construction of intersection improvements at key locations along access routes to Andrews Air Force Base. Bicycle and pedestrian improvements will be provided where appropriate. 50,000 new residents will arrive in Maryland in the next few years because of the BRAC process. I seek your help to BRAC-ready our transportation infrastructure. |
| Project Title: |
BRAC-related Improvements - Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
| Location: |
Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
MDOT |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funds will be used for design, right-of-way or construction of intersection improvements to improve safety, operations and access around Ft. George G. Meade to support BRAC-related growth. 50,000 new residents will arrive in Maryland in the next few years because of the BRAC process. I seek your help to BRAC-ready our transportation infrastructure. |
| Project Title: |
BRAC-related Improvements - Harford County, Maryland |
| Location: |
Harford County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
MDOT |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funds will be used for the design, right-of-way acquisition or construction of intersection improvements in the vicinity of Aberdeen Proving Grounds to support BRAC-related growth. 50,000 new residents will arrive in Maryland in the next few years because of the BRAC process. I seek your help to BRAC-ready our transportation infrastructure. |
| Project Title: |
BRAC-related Improvements - Montgomery County, Maryland |
| Location: |
Montgomery County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
MDOT |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funds will be used for design, right-of-way or constructions of intersection improvements to improve safety, operations, and access in the vicinity of National Naval Medical Center to support BRAC-related growth. 50,000 new residents will arrive in Maryland in the next few years because of the BRAC process. I seek your help to BRAC-ready our transportation infrastructure. |
| Project Title: |
Corridor Cities Transitway |
| Location: |
Montgomery and Frederick Counties, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Transit Administration |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Corridor Cities Transitway, a proposed 13.5-mile light rail or bus rapid transit line in Montgomery County, Maryland, would extend from the Shady Grove Metrorail Station in Rockville through Gaithersburg and Germantown to a terminus at the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) facility south of Clarksburg. |
| Project Title: |
Green Transportation Program |
| Location: |
Howard County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Howard County, Maryland |
| Amount: |
$2,600,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| This request will allow Howard County to replace 10 aging and ailing gas powered buses in the local transit fleet with 10 fuel efficient and environmentally friendly hybrid electric buses. |
| Project Title: |
Hagerstown/Washington County Disabilities Transportation Program |
| Location: |
Washington County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Washington County (Maryland) Community Action Council |
| Amount: |
$250,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Community Action Council's Disability Program is designed to more effectively provide transportation services to disabled residents. In partnership with Goodwill Industries, Star Communities and other service providers, the Disability Program provides transportation to day facilities for disabled individuals. With seed money from the Maryland Transit Agency, the Coalition has been providing service since January, 2009. Demands for service far exceed capacity. Funds will be used to purchase additional paratransit buses and to provide operational support. |
| Project Title: |
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Park and Visitor Center |
| Location: |
Dorchester, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Department of Natural Resources |
| Amount: |
$475,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Continued design, engineering and site preparation for joint State-Federal Harriet Tubman Visitors Center at the State Park and envisioned Federal Park. The project is in rural Dorchester County, one of the lowest income areas within one of Maryland's lowest per-capita counties. Tourism is a growing part of the economy and is viewed by the state and county economic development officials as the economic future of the area. The adjacent Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge is already a major attraction for eco-tourists. Federal legislation to establish a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park in this part of Dorchester County is currently pending in both the Senate and House of Representatives. This Visitors Center will serve as a focal point of a growing tourism economy in the region while also celebrating one of America's true heroes. |
| Project Title: |
Hispanic Homeownership Public Education |
| Location: |
Prince George's and Montgomery counties, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Housing Initiative Partnership, Inc. (non-profit) |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| In order to best serve the needs of the substantial and growing Hispanic population in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties, Housing Initiative Partnership, Inc. (HIP), in cooperation with the Hispanic Communications Network, proposes to create a Spanish language Hispanic home ownership public awareness and education media campaign. |
| Project Title: |
Jordan Center at Headen Springs |
| Location: |
Prince George's County |
| Recipient: |
Sowing Empowerment and Economic Development, Inc. (SEED) |
| Amount: |
$455,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Sowing Empowerment & Economic Development, Inc. (SEED) provides food, clothing, education and training while promoting self-sufficiency and empowerment directly to low- to moderate-income families and communities. SEED is seeking funding to cover predevelopment costs associated with the construction of a family life center and senior affordable housing on Riverdale Road in Riverdale, Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Levindale Geriatric Expansion & Renovation |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Levindale Geriatric Center |
| Amount: |
$400,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Levindale Geriatric Center seeks federal funds to convert and expand its existing senior care facilities. The proposed initiative will meet demonstrated needs driven by an aging population while implementing the latest innovations in long term and patient care for seniors. Levindale will increase capacity to 300 residents and patients while simultaneously increasing the number of professional staff and the level of staff to patient contact. |
| Project Title: |
Maryland Food Bank Capital Projects |
| Location: |
Baltimore |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Food Bank |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Funds will be used for the Maryland Food Bank's highest-priority capital needs: three refrigerated trucks and upgrades to office spaces and installation of a new roof at the Maryland Food Bank's 87,000 square food distribution center in Baltimore. |
| Project Title: |
Maryland Statewide Locally Operated Transit Systems (LOTS) |
| Location: |
Statewide |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Transit Administration |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The MTA Maryland provides Section 5309 funds to expand fleets, replaced aged vehicles, and enhance bus maintenance facilities throughout the State of Maryland. Funding is allocated to recipients based on a formal application process to ensure the greatest needs are addressed first, as local requests greatly exceed available funding, and virtually every jurisdiction has unmet mobility needs. |
| Project Title: |
Maryland Stormwater Management Activities |
| Location: |
Statewide |
| Recipient: |
MDOT |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| As a national leader in Stormwater Management (SWM), the Maryland State Highway Administration, on behalf of the Maryland Department of Transportation, provides sophisticated SWM techniques on all highway projects. The State Highway Administration maintains more than 2,000 SWM facilities. Polluted stormwater runoff from roadways is a significant source of pollutants to local rivers and streams and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay. |
| Project Title: |
Metro Funding |
| Location: |
Metropolitan Washington, DC |
| Recipient: |
WMATA |
| Amount: |
$150,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Sometimes known as "America's Subway," WMATA was created in 1966 primarily to serve the federal government. Many Metrorail stations were built at the request of the federal government, and nearly half of all stations are located at federal facilities. Federal employees comprise 40% of WMATA's peak ridership, and millions of others use the WMATA system each year to visit the Nation's Capital or conduct business with the federal government. WMATA is also a critical component for ensuring continuity of federal government operations during an emergency, and federal recovery plans rely heavily on WMATA, which played a key role on September 11, 2001. The federal funds requested would be matched dollar-for-dollar by the supporting jurisdictions, resulting in approximately 7,140 jobs created or retained. |
| Project Title: |
Multi-Faceted Maritime Security Simulation Program |
| Location: |
Baltimore |
| Recipient: |
Towson University |
| Amount: |
$2,470,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| James Madison and Towson Universities will integrate existing GIS mapping, analysis, and modeling capabilities, into an integrated solution that enables simulation, training, and real-time decision support for Port Security |
| Project Title: |
North/South Appalachian Corridor Project |
| Location: |
Allegany |
| Recipient: |
MDOT/SHA |
| Amount: |
$2,408,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The funds will be used to complete Maryland's share of bi-state (with West Virginia) environmental impact statements on the US 220 portion of the Appalachian North-South Corridor Project required under NEPA. This transportation corridor is vital not only to Maryland but also to Pennsylvania and West Virginia. |
| Project Title: |
Purple Line |
| Location: |
Montgomery & Prince George's Counties, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Transit Administration |
| Amount: |
$10,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Purple Line is a proposed 16-mile light rail or bus rapid transit line in the State of Maryland suburban area of Washington, D.C., extending from Bethesda in Montgomery County to New Carrollton in Prince George's County. |
| Project Title: |
Reid Community Economic Development Center |
| Location: |
Prince George's County, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Reid Community Development Corp. (non-profit) |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Establishment of a community and entrepreneur development center that will place high value on building hope and confidence of marginalized people and the low and moderate income person in the community. The center will provide support and encouragement for much needed, entrepreneur development, job creation and workforce investment including computer and information technology programs and other community programs to strengthen families and communities. |
| Project Title: |
Resurface and Rehabilitate I-68 in Allegany County, MD |
| Location: |
Allegany, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
MDOT |
| Amount: |
$4,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Resurface and Rehabilitate I-68 in Allegany County, Maryland. The project would provide safety upgrades including, as needed, inlaid pavement markings, raised pavement markings, rumble strips and guardrail improvements to I-68 in Allegany County, Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Southern Maryland Commuter Bus Initiative |
| Location: |
Charles, St. Mary's, and Calvert Counties, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Transit Authority |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Supports a program of improvements in Southern Maryland to relieve congestion by enhancing peak period transit service for commuters. Funding supports planning, design and construction of new and expanded commuter parking lots in Charles, St. Mary's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, as well as acquisition of buses and contract service with private bus firms to meet rapidly growing demand in Southern Maryland. |
| Project Title: |
Study of Northeast Corridor Rail Tunnel Alignment |
| Location: |
Baltimore, Maryland |
| Recipient: |
Maryland Transit Administration |
| Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| Division B, Title III, Section 304(c) of P.L.110-432 authorizes $60 million for the US DOT Secretary to carry out the Intercity Passenger Rail Policy of advancing work on a new passenger and freight rail tunnel alignment in Baltimore for the Northeast Corridor. The century-old Baltimore Tunnel is one of the most limiting factors in the Northeast Corridor. This study will determine the engineering requirements of eliminating this bottleneck. |
| Project Title: |
Town of Capitol Heights Community Center |
| Location: |
Prince George's |
| Recipient: |
Capitol Heights |
| Amount: |
$500,000 |
| Description of Project: |
| The Town Hall is being transformed into a center that would provide a community facility for youth, adults, and seniors in the area. In addition to recreational activities, the center will house a computer center for employment services/workforce training. |
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