6046 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 155, Pt. 5 February 26, 2009 Pointer of Long Island, NY and Chinita Pointer Description of Request: I have secured my spouse has any financial interest in this of Orange, N.J., fourteen grandchildren, seven $490,000 for Addictions Rehabilitation Serv- project. great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and ices, Inc./Nugen’s Ranch. The funds will be Requesting Member: Congressman DON cousins. used for the construction of a new residential YOUNG f substance abuse treatment facility. This will Bill Number: H.R. 1105 allow the recipient to increase the number of Account: Dept of Health and Human Serv- EARMARK DECLARATION individuals treated which will decrease the ices, Health Resources and Services Adminis- number of people being sent out of state for tration, Health Facilities and Services HON. DON YOUNG treatment. It is my understanding that the Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Yukon- OF ALASKA funds will be spent for engineering and archi- Kuskokwim Health Corporation Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 528, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tecture fees, site preparation and actual con- struction of the facility. Other funds being used Bethel, AK 99559 Thursday, February 26, 2009 Description of Request: I have secured for this project are coming from the Denali $1,475,000 for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Madam Speaker, Commission, Foundation Grants, AK Mental Corporation. These funds will be used for cap- pursuant to the Republican Leadership stand- Health Trust Authority, the State of AK, and ital equipment upgrades that will improve pro- ards on earmarks, I am submitting the fol- funds from the organization itself. I certify that ductivity, improve health care delivery and re- lowing information regarding constituent neither I nor my spouse has any financial in- duce the number of patients that are now re- projects of interest I received as part of the FY terest in this project. quired to be transferred out of the region. It is 2009 Omnibus. Requesting Member: Congressman DON my understanding that no additional funds will Requesting Member: Congressman DON YOUNG YOUNG Bill Number: H.R. 1105 be used for this project. I certify that neither I Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Account: Dept of Health and Human Serv- nor my spouse has any financial interest in Account: Dept of Education, Elementary and ices, Health Resources and Services Adminis- this project. Requesting Member: Congressman DON Secondary Education tration, Health Facilities and Services YOUNG Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Galena Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Provi- City School District Bill Number: H.R. 1105 dence Health System Account: Department of Commerce, Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 299, Address of Requesting Entity: 3200 Provi- Galena, AK 99741 NOAA—Operations, Research and Facilities dence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508 Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Gulf of Description of Request: I have secured Description of Request: I have secured Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition $485,000 for the Galena School District. Fund- $951,000 for Providence Health Services in Address of Requesting Entity: PO Box ing will be used for Galena’s boarding school Anchorage, AK. These funds will be used for 201236, Anchorage, AK 99520 operations and provide a safe and education- the Alaska Family Medicine Residency Pro- Description of Request: I have secured ally enriching environment for 120 students, gram which recruits and trains doctors to ad- $150,000 for the Gulf of Alaska Coastal Com- many of whom are Native Alaskans from out- dress the critical physician recruitment and re- munities Coalition (GOAC3) which is an incor- lying villages where, in some cases, they may tention problem in Alaska. It is my under- porated 501(c)6 non-profit membership driven be exposed to a physically and emotionally standing that the funds will be used to pay for organization primarily serving as an advocate challenging village environment. Due to a faculty salaries ($835,000) and resident re- for small boat community based fisheries in 2001 Department of Education formula cruitment ($116,000) and that Providence the protection and creation of fair and sustain- change, Galena loses $1 million annually in Health Services will provide supplemental able fisheries related economic opportunities. Federal Impact Aid Funding. It is my under- funds to this program. I certify that neither I The GOAC3 has representation from over 45 standing that these funds will be used along nor my spouse has any financial interest in fisheries communities in the Gulf of Alaska. with state funding to provide educational serv- this project. The GOAC3 allows these communities to par- ices and operate the boarding school. I certify Requesting Member: Congressman DON ticipate and be effective in North Pacific Fish- that neither I nor my spouse has any financial YOUNG ery Management Council meetings, allowing interest in this project. Bill Number: H.R. 1105 them to help mitigate negative impacts and in- Requesting Member: Congressman DON Account: Department of Education, School crease opportunities to create economically YOUNG Improvement viable and sustainable marine related commu- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Depart- nities. It is my understanding that these funds Account: Dept of Education, Elementary and ment of Education will be spent as on Personnel: $45,000, Trav- Secondary Education Address of Requesting Entity: 400 Maryland el: $22,000, Supplies: $12,000 and Support Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Literacy Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20202 Contracts: $62,000. Council of Alaska, Fairbanks Description of Request: I have secured Requesting Member: Congressman DON Address of Requesting Entity: 517 Gaffney $33,315,000 for the AK Native Education Eq- YOUNG Road, Fairbanks, AK 99701 uity Program. It is my understanding that Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Description of Request: I have secured these funds will be used to meet the unique Account: Department of Commerce, $81,000 for the Literacy Council of Alaska, education needs and to support supplemental NOAA—Operations, Research and Facilities Fairbanks. The funding will be used for a education programs to benefit Alaska Natives. Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Cook Inlet school-age tutoring program focusing on read- I certify that neither I nor my spouse has any Beluga Whale Research/Kenai Peninsula Bor- ing, writing and math. It is my understanding financial interest in this project. ough that the funds will be used for salaries, sup- Requesting Member: Congressman DON Address of Requesting Entity: 144 N. plies and tutor trainings. There is an in-kind YOUNG Binkley St., Soldotna, AK 99669 volunteer tutor contribution of $30,600 annu- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Description of Request: I have secured ally. I certify that neither I nor my spouse has Account: Dept of Education, Elementary and $700,000 for the Kenai Peninsula Borough. any financial interest in this project. Secondary Education This project will study the population of the Requesting Member: Congressman DON Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Alaska Cook Inlet Beluga Whale so that it is fully un- YOUNG PTA derstood and counted. The listing of the Cook Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box Inlet Beluga Whale on the Endangered Spe- Account: Dept of Health and Human Serv- 210496, Anchorage, AK 99503 cies List affects over 70% of Alaska’s popu- ices, Health Resources and Services Adminis- Description of Request: I have secured lation and knowledge of the Cook Inlet Beluga tration, Health Facilities and Services $238,000 for the Alaska PTA. These funds will Whale’s population size and migration habits Legal Name of Requesting Entity: AK Addic- be used to train parents in their roles and re- is sorely lacking. This project fulfills the man- tions Rehabilitation Services, Inc./Nugen’s sponsibilities under the No Child Left Behind dates of the Marine Mammal Protection Act Ranch Act. It is my understanding that the funds will and the Endangered Species Act. It is my un- Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box be used in conjunction with Alaska PTA funds derstanding that the funds will be used for tag- 871545, Wasilla, AK 99687 totaling $160,000. I certify that neither I nor ging devices and equipment and to support

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Account: FHWA, Federal Lands Highways Account: Department of Justice, OJP— Requesting Member: Congressman DON Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Fairbanks Byrne Discretionary Grants YOUNG North Star Borough Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Northwest Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Address of Requesting Entity: 809 Pioneer Arctic Borough Account: USDA, NRCS Road, Fairbanks, AK 99707–1267 Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Alaska Description of Request: Provide an earmark 1110, Kotzebue, AK 99752 Association of Conservation Districts of $950,000 for rural and road service area Description of Request: I have secured Address of Requesting Entity: 1700 E. transportation upgrades. Funds will be used to $500,000 for the Northwest Arctic Borough’s Bogard Road, Suite 203A, Wasilla, AK, 99654 upgrade roads to federal lands, military instal- Public Safety Planning and Village Public Description of Request: I have secured lations, university research farms, and evacu- Safety Officer Hiring and Training. This project $864,000 to support the work of 12 Soil and ation. Funds will be matched 50 percent by provides for the creation of a comprehensive Water Conservation Districts in Alaska. Spe- the Borough. planning process for law enforcement in the cifically, this program would allow the Alaska Requesting Member: Congressman DON Borough and to implement immediate im- Association of Conservation Districts to man- YOUNG provements to the Village Public Safety Officer age statewide natural resource concerns such Bill Number: H.R. 1105 program by recruiting and training new offi- as invasive plants, water quality and soil ero- Account: Federal Transit Administration, Bus cers. This will help to bring up the level of law sion due to global climate change. Assuming and Bus Facilities enforcement and public safety in the Borough, percentages remain the same, funding would Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Mat Su which is currently completely inadequate and include 53.5% for salaries and personnel, Community Transit provide Borough citizens with the same pro- 9.3% for fringe funding, 6.7% for travel fund- Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box tections afforded those Americans throughout ing, 4.3% for equipment, 4% for supply fund- 8971590, Wasilla, AK 99687 the country. The State of Alaska provides con- ing, and 16.7% for contractual funding. The Description of Request: Funding will be tract funds for the Village Public Safety Officer matching funds for this project, which will be used for bus facility and property enhance- program. It is my understanding that $250,000 augmented from local and private contributors, ments, 20 percent local match will be provided will be used for public safety planning process are unknown at this time. Additionally, this by Mat-Su Borough. and $250,000 for Village Public Safety Officer project will be enhanced by projects that are Requesting Member: Congressman DON Hiring and Training. funded by USDA, State and Private Forestry, YOUNG Requesting Member: Congressman DON U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other fed- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 YOUNG eral agencies. A funding request to the State Account: Army Corps of Engineers, Inves- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 tigations Account: Department of Commerce, of Alaska is pending. Requesting Member: Congressman DON Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Army NOAA—Operations, Research and Facilities Legal Name of Requesting Entity: The Alas- YOUNG Corps of Engineers, ka Sea Otter and Steller Sea Lion Commis- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Address of Requesting Entity: Elmendorf Air sion Account: EPA, STAG Water and Waste- Force Base, AK Address of Requesting Entity: 6239 B water Infrastructure Description of Request: Provide an earmark Street, Suite 204, Anchorage, AK 99518 Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of of $263,000 for Alaska District to continue the Description of Request: I have secured Craig feasibility study of the Alaska Regional Ports $300,000 for a Steller Sea Lion Comanage- Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 725, and Harbors Comprehensive Plan. ment, Biosampling and Outreach/Education Craig, AK 99921 Requesting Member: Congressman DON program. This project will feature two ap- Description of Request: I have secured YOUNG proaches to bio-sampling. The first will be to $250,000 for Water and Wastewater Infra- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 work with two high harvest communities to structure Projects in the City of Craig. The City Account: Army Corps of Engineers, General fund local monitors (residents that help facili- has previously received funds form the State Construction tate sea lion bio-sampling and monitor and of Alaska’s Village Safe Water Program, but Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Army document the local environment). The second because of delays in funding distribution and Corps of Engineers, approach will consist of training approximately escalating project costs the funding received Address of Requesting Entity: Elmendorf Air 25 coastal Alaskans on proper sample collec- has not been able to fulfill the requirements for Force Base, AK tion and technique and protocols from those the approved projects. All funds appropriated Description of Request: Provide an earmark sea lions harvested for subsistence. This will will be used for the construction or replace- of $3,328,000 to be used for Alaska coastal help fulfill the mandates created by the Marine ment of waterlines, wastewater lines, lift sta- erosion. Native Villages on the coast of Alaska Mammal Protection Act and help promote re- tions, and other utilities. The total project will are eroding and this funding will help the sponsible and sustainable subsistence har- cost $1.2 million. However, the grantee has Corps address the most pressing needs. vesting. It is my understanding that the money received $973,000 from the State of Alaska’s Requesting Member: Congressman DON will be spent on: Personnel: $130,000, Travel: Village Safe Water Program. The $250,000 in- YOUNG $64,000, Supplies: $15,000, Community Moni- cluded in this appropriation will complete the Bill Number: H.R. 1105 toring Contracts: $50,000, Biosamplers: project. Additionally, the City has provided ad- Account: Army Corps of Engineers, General $10,000 and Administrative Support: $31,000. ditional in-kind contributions in the form of Construction Requesting Member: Congressman DON labor and equipment. Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City and YOUNG Requesting Member: Congressman DON Borough of Sitka Bill Number: H.R. 1105 YOUNG Address of Requesting Entity: 100 Lincoln Account: Department of Justice, Office on Bill Number: H.R. 1105 St., Sitka, AK 99835 Violence Against Women Account: Federal Transit Administration, Bus Description of Request: Provide $478,000 Legal Name of Requesting Entity: State of and Bus Facilities for upgrades to the harbor breakwater due to Alaska / Victims for Justice Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Fairbanks design deficiency. Upgrades are needed to Address of Requesting Entity: 1057 North Star Borough protect fishing boats within harbor of Sitka Fireweed Lane, Suite 101, Anchorage, AK Address of Requesting Entity: 809 Pioneer Channel. Local match will be met by the state 99503 Road, Fairbanks, AK 99707–1267 or borough. Description of Request: I have secured Description of Request: Provide an earmark Requesting Member: Congressman DON $400,000 to be used for sexual assault/do- of $798,000 for bus acquisition to add a route YOUNG

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Madam center’s executive director since its founding, of $16 million will be used for transitional Speaker, on February 25, 2009, I missed two in addition to working as an attorney in private dredging for the Port of Anchorage Expansion votes regarding H. Res. 184, a resolution set- practice, college lecturer, and satellite radio Project. ting forth the rule for consideration of H.R. talk show host. Peter Groff was first elected to Requesting Member: Congressman DON 1105 to consider making omnibus appropria- the House in 2000 and later was appointed YOUNG tions for the fiscal year ending September 30, and reelected to the Colorado Senate. He is Bill Number: H.R. 1105 2009. Had I been present, I would have voted the highest-ranking African-American elected Account: EERE, Biomass and Biorefinery ‘‘yes’’ for both H. Res. 184, Ordering the pre- official in Colorado history and has been Systems R&D vious question (Roll call vote 84), and H. Res. called the ‘‘Conscience of the Senate.’’ Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Munici- 184, On Agreeing to the Resolution (Roll call pality of Anchorage vote 85). In a year when America inaugurated its first Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box f African-American President, the ascension of 19660, Anchorage, AK 99519 Speaker Carroll and President Groff is also a Description of Request: Provide an earmark A COMMEMORATION OF HOUSE significant tribute to the innumerable individ- of $713,625 to be used for converting meth- SPEAKER TERRANCE CARROLL uals who have come before us who strived ane gas to electrical power generation. Munici- AND SENATE PRESIDENT PETER and sacrificed for civil rights, equal oppor- pality will match all federal funds. GROFF tunity, and equality for all. It gives me great Requesting Member: Congressman DON pleasure as the Senior Member of the Colo- YOUNG HON. DIANA DeGETTE rado Congressional Delegation to congratulate OF COLORADO Bill Number: H.R. 1105 these two men and recognize their accom- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Account: EERE, Geothermal Technology plishments, not only in the context of Colo- Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of Thursday, February 26, 2009 rado’s history, but the nation’s as a whole. Unalaska Address of Requesting Entity: 43 Ravens Ms. DEGETTE. Madam Speaker, I rise to Way, Unalaska, AK 99685 honor two distinguished gentlemen and mark f Description of Request: Provide an earmark a historic occasion for the State of Colorado HONORING THE LIFE AND SERVICE of $951,500 for the development of a potential and our legislature. For the first time in United OF MERVIN WILLIAMS geothermal well in Unalaska. This could be a States history, two African-Americans will hold crucial source of energy for people on the the top leadership position in both chambers Aleutian Chain. of a State legislature. The election of Colorado State Representa- Requesting Member: Congressman DON HON. THADDEUS G. McCOTTER tive Terrance Carroll as Speaker of the Colo- YOUNG OF MICHIGAN Bill Number: H.R. 1105 rado House of Representatives and Colorado Account: Corps of Engineers, Operations State Senator Peter Groff as President of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Colorado Senate puts our State’s past injus- and Maintenance Thursday, February 26, 2009 Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Corps of tices into perspective. It opens our eyes once Engineers again to a time only eighty years ago when a Mr. McCOTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise Address of Requesting Entity: Elmendorf majority of the State House members were as- today to honor and acknowledge the life of AFB, AK sociated with the Ku Klux Klan members. It re- Mervin Williams upon his passing on February minds us when the 1924 election ushered in Description of Request: Provide an earmark 7, 2009. for $740,000 for City of Dillingham in support numerous KKK-endorsed candidates, including of President’s Budget for dredging Dillingham the Governor of Colorado, Clarence Morley. A highly decorated veteran of World War II, Harbor. These were the days when legislation was in- Mervin served in the 10th Mountain Division’s Requesting Member: Congressman DON troduced without shame by people who sought 85th regiment alongside Senator Robert Dole. YOUNG to use the law to restrict the rights of African For his selfless service to America, Mervin re- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 Americans and to remove them from boards ceived a Bronze Star for his heroism and two Account: Corps of Engineers, Operations and commissions. The struggle for harmony Purple Hearts. and freedom from inequity continues for all of and Maintenance After Mr. Williams’ return to the United us, but today Colorado makes progress to- Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Corps of States to recover from shrapnel wounds he re- Engineers ward that end. ceived defending our nation, he dedicated Address of Requesting Entity: Elmendorf The story of House Speaker Terrance Car- AFB, AK roll began several blocks away from this himself to improving the lives of his fellow vet- Description of Request: Provide an earmark chamber, where Carroll grew up in the Ana- erans and our entire community. Mervin be- for $575,000 for City of Homer in support of costia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He came engaged in many significant organiza- President’s budget for dredging Homer Har- was the only child of a single mother who was tions including Veterans of Foreign Wars, Dis- bor. the daughter of a sharecropper. He attended abled American Veterans, Eagles, the Moose Requesting Member: Congressman DON Morehouse College in Atlanta. He eventually Lodge, and The Knights of Columbus. YOUNG earned a master’s degree from the University Madam Speaker, Mervin Williams is remem- Bill Number: H.R. 1105 of Colorado and a law degree from the Univer- bered as an American hero who loved and Account: Corps of Engineers, Operations sity of Denver, and he graduated from semi- served our country and community in war and and Maintenance nary to become an ordained minister. During peace. Today, as we bid him farewell, I ask Legal Name of Requesting Entity: City of his career, he has served as a police officer Nome and a practicing lawyer. In his seven years in my colleagues to join me in mourning his Address of Requesting Entity: P.O. Box 281, the Colorado state legislature, Speaker Carroll passing and honoring his life. In league with Nome, AK 99762 has championed issues ranging from edu- his comrades who wore America’s colors, Description of Request: Provide an earmark cational reform, housing, homeland security, Mervin Williams was a good man who did for $724,000 for City of Nome in support of and civil and criminal justice issues. great things for the cause of human freedom. President’s budget for dredging the Nome Senate President Peter Groff, the son of We are all diminished by his loss; and inspired Port. former Colorado lawmaker Regis Groff, is a by his life.

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