The House and Senate Appropriations Committees debate and vote on the legislation that funds the government. Currently there are 12 bills that fund the government. Money from those bills is distributed in several ways, including federal formulas, competitive grants and outlays for local projects throughout the country. In an effort to make the legislative process as transparent as possible, Congressman Farr has posted information on requests made through the House Appropriations Committee below.

Fiscal Year 2011 Appropriations - Local Project Funding Requests

Agriculture Appropriations

Project name: U.S. Agricultural Research Station (Salinas, CA)
Requested amount: $24 million
Intended recipient and address: Agricultural Research Service/ARS  1636 E. ALISAL ST. Salinas, CA 93905
Project description: USDA-ARS conducted a feasibility study (project No. 02-2010) regarding the status and capability of the existing laboratory and related buildings.    The study determined that the World War II era structures are obsolete and many fail to meet building codes or OSHA standards not to mention research requirements because of inadequate lab/office space. It was further determined that renovation will be more costly than replacement, and achieve inferior facilities compared with new replacement options.  To this USDA-ARS has developed a three phase project to replace the current structures at Salinas. Phase 1 will construct the west lab/office wing at a cost of $24 million, Phase 2 will construct the east lab/office wing at a cost of $26 million, and Phase 3 will construct green houses and hot houses at a cost of $20.2 million. The total cost of construction will be $69 million.
Legislation: FY 2011 Agriculture Appropriations 

Project name: Water Quality Protection Program - Monterey Bay Sanctuary
Requested amount: $600,000
Intended recipient and address: NRCS/ U.S. Department of Agriculture/ 1400 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, DC 20250
Project description: To continue an innovative collaborative approach to protecting the resources of the Monterey Bay Sanctuary while sustaining the economic viability of the agricultural industry.  At the heart of the plan are 24 strategies to address agricultural sources of polluted runoff such as sediments, nitrates and pesticides.  Many strategies are focused on improving technical assistance and education, funding and economic incentives for conservation measures, coordination and streamlining the existing regulatory system in order to reduce barriers to implementing erosion control practices, and improving maintenance practices for rural roadways.  This ongoing program has met with much success and will continue to provide much needed assistance to the entire watershed.
Legislation: FY 2011 Agriculture Appropriations

Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations

Project name: Bluefin Tuna Tagging and Research Program
Requested amount: $1 million
Intended recipient and address: Monterey Bay Aquarium 866 Cannery Row Monterey, CA 93940
Project description: With bluefin tuna populations declining at an increasing rate, the information generated by this ongoing project is forcing global policy-makers to confront a worsening situation. While the immediate crisis is in the Atlantic, the project's work in the Pacific off the California coast is helping the state's valuable ($100 million plus) long-line recreational fleet develop and implement policies that will sustain fishing in perpetuity. Additional husbandry research at the facility in Monterey - the only land-based tuna facility in the U.S. - promises to position the U.S. in the lead in environmentally sound bluefin aquaculture technology, a way to create jobs, meet growing demand and reduce pressure on wild stock.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: California Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program
Requested amount: $2.5 million
Intended recipient and address: National Marine Sanctuary Program 299 Foam Street Monterey, CA 93940
Project description: B-WET is a competitive, environmental education grant program that increases environmental literacy and stewardship through hands-on, place-based learning experiences. The program is an excellent use of taxpayer dollars because it is a proven success - independent evaluation has shown that B-WET education produces statistically significant increases in the stewardship ethic of youth who have participated. Research also indicates that B-WET training is successful at increasing teachers' use of hands-on, experiential learning as they introduce watersheds to their students. In addition, the California program has shown its commitment to responsible use of Federal dollars by leveraging that investment to obtain matching funds from non-Federal sources and providing grant recipients with the training and resources necessary to continuously evaluate and improve their environmental education projects.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: California Collaborative Fisheries Research Organization
Requested amount: $3 million
Intended recipient and address: California State Coastal Conservancy 1330 Broadway, 13th Floor Oakland, CA 94612
Project description: Collaborative fisheries research (CFR) offers a far-reaching and effective opportunity to satisfy data needs and augment data collected through traditional academic monitoring and fisheries dependent reporting. The CFR organization will be a venue for commercial and recreational fishermen, academic scientists, coastal managers, tribes, non-governmental organizations, and funders to discuss and prioritize California's existing and emerging fisheries management data needs. The CFR organization will identify data gaps that may be addressed through collaborative research and will actively design and promote projects to fill these gaps and inform management.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: California Seafloor Mapping Program
Requested amount: $3 million
Intended recipient and address: California State Coastal Conservancy 1330 Broadway, 13th Floor Oakland, CA 94612
Project description: Marine mapping will help us understand and mitigate the impacts to sea level rise, evaluate the potential for utilizing ocean energy, designate and monitor marine reserves, improve navigation and ensure shipping safety, understand sediment transport and sand delivery, indentify dredging and dumping sites, help identify fault dynamics, regulate offshore oil development and fisheries management. For 5 years California has pursued the goal of mapping all of California's state waters in order to improve ocean management, and these funds will be used to meet this goal.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: California State University Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology (COAST) Equipment and Infrastructure
Requested amount: $3 million
Intended recipient and address: California State University 401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802
Project description: The California State University's Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology (COAST) seeks equipment and infrastructure funding to upgrade technological capacity statewide and launch six Technology Centers to address critical national environmental issues. This is an excellent use of taxpayer funds as it will link these Centers, allowing for the sharing of CSU equipment and data by using high-speed networks. COAST will create an unparalleled, robust statewide resource that maximizes the coastal research and education capabilities throughout the 23-campus CSU system.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: Central Coast Water Quality Monitoring
Requested amount: $39,595
Intended recipient and address: Coastal Watershed Council 345 Lake Avenue, Suite F Santa Cruz, CA 95602
Project description: Water quality monitoring programs produce scientific data to inform the public and elected officials about which contaminants pose a threat to water quality, which affects local and regional jobs, marine habitat, human health, and the overall economy. Monitoring programs also mobilize, educate and engage local citizens to learn job-related science skills, get outdoors, improve their environmental literacy and stewardship, and connect with diverse neighbors in community teamwork. The Coastal Watershed Council (CWC) has fifteen years of experience and unique expertise in increasing civic participation and generating reliable data to educate policymakers and the public.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program
Requested amount: $3.5 million
Intended recipient and address: California State Coastal Conservancy 1330 Broadway 13th Floor Oakland, CA 94612
Project description: A sustained and integrated ocean observing system has been identified as a high priority by the Joint Ocean Commission and California's Ocean Protection Council. Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring is a good use of taxpayer funds because it will help to provide the state and the nation with critical economic, societal, and environmental benefits, including improved warnings of coastal and health hazards, more efficient use of living and nonliving resources, safer marine operations, and a better understanding of climate change.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: Highly Migratory Shark Fishery Research Program
Requested amount: $593,000
Intended recipient and address: San Jose State University Foundation 210 North 4th Street San Jose, CA 95192
Project description: Sharks are critical components of ocean ecosystems, and of healthy fisheries, which rely on healthy ecosystems. Continued federal support is requested to sustain the Pacific Shark Research Center's research and education programs which are required for assessing the status of shark stocks, managing U.S. shark fisheries, and helping our nation take the leading role in worldwide conservation and management of shark populations. The goal of the Highly Migratory Shark Fishery Research Program is to provide the National Marine Fisheries Service with the information necessary for effective collaborative multi-regional management of highly migratory shark species in the U.S. and to provide state fishery agencies additional, essential information on the biology of sharks. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer funds because the data it provides improves the management of ocean resources which are so essential to our health, economy, and environment.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: Marine Bioregion Classification of the US EEZ
Requested amount: $1 million
Intended recipient and address: Marine Conservation Biology Institute 2122 112th Avenue NE Bellevue, WA 98004
Project description: Under a pending ocean management policy to be issued by the President in 2010, federal agencies will begin working with each other, states and tribes to conduct marine spatial planning (MSP) in our oceans and Great Lakes on a region by region basis. MSP will help coastal economies generate jobs while protecting and recovering healthy ecosystems by allowing economic activities that comply with environmental laws to be licensed or permitted in a timely fashion. It is of paramount importance that ecosystem-based management start with ecologically relevant spatial depictions of the bioregions to be managed. This project is a good use of taxpayer funds because it will produce bioregion maps to help citizens, local governments and federal agencies plan and execute sustainable ocean activities.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: Monterey County Operational Area Emergency Communications System (aka: NGEN Radio)
Requested amount: $1 million
Intended recipient and address: County of Monterey, Information Technology Department, 1590 Moffett Street, Salinas, CA 93905
Project description: Funding for the NGEN Radio program would allow Monterey County to design, acquire, and deploy an interoperable SAFECOM compliant Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 (P25) digital trunked narrowband VHF Radio System infrastructure for use by the County, incorporated cities, and special district, law enforcement, fire, emergency medical, and local government services throughout the Monterey County Operational Area for voice communications. With such infrastructure in place it will be possible to provide field forces with visual imagery, maps, diagrams, hazardous materials, medical information, etc. that will strengthen public safety's capabilities and provide greater service to the public.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill

Project name: Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST)
Requested amount: $2 million
Intended recipient and address: Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission 205 SE Spokane Street Suite 100 Portland, OR 97202
Project description: The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) Project provides scientists with a tool to better understand the movement and survival patterns of marine animals. By providing open access to a network of underwater receivers designed to track animals fitted with uniquely identifiable tags, scientists are better able to discover and understand how animals move about and use different parts of the ocean. This is a good use of taxpayer funds as the database, along with its mapping, visualization, and analysis tools, can be searched and shared by anyone, providing an excellent resource for scientists from Federal, state and tribal resource agencies, universities, and other organizations.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: Street Violence and Anti-Gang Project (Gang Task Force/GTF)
Requested amount: $1.2 million
Intended recipient and address: County of Monterey 1414 Natividad Road Salinas, CA 93906
Project description: Last year there were 29 gang related homicides in Salinas, a rural community with a population of 160,000. The GTF is comprised of the police departments from the cities of Salinas and Soledad, the Monterey Sheriff's Department, Probation Department, and District Attorney's Office; and the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The GTF also works closely with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which has provided Special Agents from its Special Services Unit for several operations involving parolees who are believed to be gang members, in addition to the California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (DOJBNE). The Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies have assisted the GTF in joint operations. Additionally, the city of Salinas recently instituted the national Ceasefire Program which is working with the GTF. The GTF is a statewide model for strong gang suppression coupled with intensive prevention and intervention programs. The GTF is facing unprecedented budgetary pressures and shortfalls, and continued federal assistance is critically important to keep the GTF operating at full strength to sustain the suppression effort to reduce widespread gang violence.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Project name: West Coast Governors Agreement on Ocean Health
Requested amount: $5 million
Intended recipient and address: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1401 Constitution Ave, NW Room 5128 Washington, DC 20230
Project description: Funds will support implementation of on-the-ground actions from the action plan for the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health. The ten WCGA Action Coordination Teams (ACTs) have developed strategies to complete the WCGA Action Plan priorities. Examples include development of a coastal climate change adaptation guidebook for local government, establishment of a West Coast Marine Debris Alliance to reduce marine debris, and a West Coast Renewable Energy Planning Guidebook to support decision-making regarding the siting of offshore energy projects. The federal funds would be administered by NOAA and divided among the three states for implementation of the Action Plan.
Legislation: FY11 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations

Defense Appropriations

Project name: Center for Defense Education & Technology for the Military Services (CDTEMS)
Requested amount: $5 million
Intended recipient and address: Naval Postgraduate School, 1 University Circle, Monterey, CA, 93943
Project description: CDTEMS funds leading edge, pilot programs in education and research for the US Military and its allied partners in the areas of irregular warfare, humanitarian relief and national and homeland security. The NPS has had high success in transferring the continuation of these programs to agencies within the DoD and Department of the Navy.
Legislation: FY11 Defense Appropriations

Project name: Cybersecurity and Operational Identity Management
Requested amount: $3 million
Intended recipient and address: Defense Manpower Data Center, 1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 400, Arlington, VA, 22209
Project description: This request funds efforts required to protect information of all kinds, including about missions and individuals. Information protection and identity management are acute issues for all of DOD, including, and perhaps most particularly, for the intelligence and special operations communities. The program will develop and support cyber-security and identity management methods and processes critical to stated IC/SPECOPS requirements. The program will also provide content to undergird training and education of DoD and IC personnel in cyber-security, cyber-operations and identity management. The program will be guided by high-level polices such as those provided in the president's, the House, and Senate's cyber-security initiatives.
Legislation: FY11 Defense Appropriations

Project name: Field Experimentation Program for Special Operations (FEPSO)
Requested amount: $2,200,000
Intended recipient and address: Naval Postgraduate School, 1 University Circle, Monterey, CA 93943
Project description: The project funds leading edge, pilot programs in education and research for the US Military and its allied partners in the areas of irregular warfare, humanitarian relief and national security.  The NPS has had high success in transferring the continuation of these programs to agencies within the DoD and Department of the Navy.  Program has lead to rapid fielding of capabilities in support of current operations, election monitoring in Afghanistan and relief effort in Haiti.  FEPSO accelerates the transition and deployment of new capabilities saving both lives and dollars.
Legislation: FY11 Defense Appropriations

Project name: Fort Ord - Remediation, Disposal and Restoration of CSUMB Re-use Site
Requested amount: $1 million
Intended recipient and address: California State University, Monterey Bay, 100 Campus Center, Seaside, CA 93955
Program description: There is one area of BRAC clean up that never gets funded. That is: how is a local reuse authority (LRA) supposed to deal with contamination that DOD refuses to "own" - refuses to acknowledge? For example, part of Fort Ord was transferred to CSUMB with old Army barracks and buildings on site. They contain lead paint, asbestos and PCBs. That contamination was created by the Army. But the Army won't pay to clean up or deconstruct those buildings. This saddles the reuse authority with millions in clean up costs that it has no way to pay for, stymieing reuse and redevelopment. Providing federal funds for clean up purposes at CSUMB would fulfill a promise of the BRAC program which is to provide property to new owners in a manner that allows for redevelopment.
Legislation: FY11 Defense Appropriations

Project Name: Re-skinning Hangar One at former NAS Moffett Field
Requested amount: $10 million
Intended recipient and address: NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center c/o Director Pete Worden, Moffett Field, CA, 94035
Project Description: NASA, Navy,& OMB are committed to re-skinning the historic Hangar One to remediate environmental damage at the former NAS Moffett Field and prepare for reuse purposes. Funds would allow Navy to coordinate the de-skinning process with NASA to meet the government's commitment to re-skin Hangar One at lower cost to the taxpayer in a timely manner. A restored Hangar One would allow for re-use of a large facility at NASA Ames, consistent with NASA’s new mission of public-private partnerships to improve research focused on space. NASA Ames is uniquely situated in Silicon Valley to allow the government to take advantage of research facilities, high-tech companies, and other academic institutions to create a cluster focused on scientific research to provide the next breakthroughs and spur innovation to boost the nation’s economy.
Legislation: FY11 Department of Defense Appropriations

Project name: Translation and Interpretation Skills for the Department of Defense
Requested amount: $5 million
Intended recipient and address: Monterey Institute of International Studies, 460 Pierce St., Monterey, CA, 93940
Project description: As a result of this funding, the U.S. military will be more effective in its implementation of foreign operations as its FAOs will be able to use their translation and interpretation abilities to better understand the local environment and population. The language training provided to FAOs would deepen their regional expertise and insight leveraging their already advanced language skills and making the need for additional personnel for translation and interpretation unnecessary, thereby saving money for the military (and taxpayer).
Legislation: FY11 Defense Appropriations

Energy and Water Appropriations

Project name: Federal Channel Maintenance Dredging
Requested amount: $2,850,000
Intended recipient and address: Army Corps of Engineers, 333 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-2197
Project description: The Moss Landing Harbor is a Harbor of Safe Refuge on the Monterey Bay, providing 610 berths and accommodating vessels up to 100 feet length overall. Vessels regularly utilizing the Harbor are commercial fishing vessels, research vessels, government (Coast Guard, Fish & Game, NOAA, State University) vessels and recreational vessels, all in need of continuing access to the Moss Landing Harbor. The economic contributions these commercial, recreational and educational vessels make to the community, the State and to the nation are substantial.
Legislation: FY11 Energy and Water Appropriations

Project name: Pajaro River project
Requested amount: $5 million
Intended recipient and address: County of Santa Cruz, 701 Ocean Street, Rm 520, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Project description: A 1963 report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concluded that the Pajaro River levee system constructed in 1949 was inadequate providing only 25-year protection along the Pajaro River and 7-year protection along two Pajaro tributaries, the Salsipuedes and Corralitos Creeks, instead of the 100-year protection that was intended. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers currently estimates that there is an 82 percent chance of recurring floods within the next 10 years. This project will provide 100-year flood protection and generate $300,000,000 in economic benefits to the region.
Legislation: FY11 Energy and Water Appropriations

Project name: San Lorenzo River Flood Control Project
Requested amount: $500,000
Intended recipient and address: City of Santa Cruz Redevelopment Agency, 337 Locust Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Project description: To complete project modifications on an authorized flood control levee project on the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz that will provide 100-year flood protection to the citizens of that area.
Legislation: FY11 Energy and Water Appropriations

Project name: Santa Cruz Harbor
Requested amount: $600,000
Intended recipient and address: Santa Cruz Port District, 135 Fifth Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Project description: Santa Cruz Port District is the local sponsor for the federal navigation project at Santa Cruz Harbor. Under a 1986 Cooperative Agreement with the USACOE, the Port District operates and maintains a sand bypass plant to maintain the federal channel depths. The District requests $600,000 be appropriated for the federal share of the yearly channel maintenance. Total cost of maintaining depths is $1,300,000 per year.
Legislation: FY11 Energy and Water Appropriations

Project name: Watsonville Area Water Recycling
Requested amount: $13.6 million
Intended recipient and address: City of Watsonville, 275 Main Street, 4th floor, Watsonville, CA 95077-5000
Project description: The project is an integral part of a larger program to stop seawater intrusion into the ground water basin of the Pajaro Valley, thereby preserving a highly productive agricultural area. The project will also diminish water demands from other water resources. The intrusion front is moving inland and threatens the agricultural economy of the area.
Legislation: FY11 Energy and Water Appropriations

Financial Services and General Government Approps

Project name: Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition and Business Incubator
Requested amount: $200,000
Intended recipient and address: Marina Technology Cluster: 3180 Imjin Road, Suite 149, Marina, CA 93933
Project description: The Marina Technology Cluster has been in operation at the Marina Airport since September 2001, providing business and business start-up assistance to companies and individuals in the Monterey Bay Area. Now in its eighth year of operation, the MTC's program is gaining traction and recognition in the region. The request is for funds to help support the Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition and Marina Technology Cluster's business incubator. The Marina Technology Cluster and regional partners are producing a Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition (MBR Competition) for regional start-ups, students and emerging businesses. The competition and supporting workshops are designed to help generate new businesses that create jobs by: 1) Promoting tech transfer, innovation and commercialization; 2) Linking local entrepreneurs to local investors; 3) Encouraging business students to become entrepreneurs; 4) Attracting businesses and investors to the region; 5) Supporting the success of regional start-ups; 6) Encouraging regional interest in entrepreneurship. This request would also support the Marina Technology Cluster business incubator. MTC's business incubator has provided business training programs to the more than 140 clients and provides space, consulting, office machines and other business-development assistance to these and other clients whose businesses are located in the incubator. MTC's 18 resident and graduate companies have created and retained 68 jobs, paying combined wages of $3,748,000. Of these 18 resident and graduate companies, eight were headed by TIG individuals. These businesses have created 25 contract and employee jobs paying $475,000 in wages. Their revenues in 2008 exceeded $1 million.
Legislation: FY11 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations 

Project name: Salinas-Marina Community Development Food Project
Requested amount: $125,000
Intended recipient and address: Everyone's Harvest: PO Box 1423, Marina, CA 93933
Project description: Everyone's Harvest supports sustainable agriculture and local economic development through the creation and operation of Certified Farmers' Markets. Everyone's Harvest runs three Certified Farmers' Markets in Marina, Pacific Grove, and Greenfield and support the East Salinas Farm Stand. The Salinas-Marina Community Development Food Project is a collaboration of Everyone's Harvest, the Service Learning Institute (SLI) of California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), Shoreline Workforce Development Services and Pueblo del Mar. I request $125,000 for Everyone's Harvest for the Salinas-Marina Community Development Food Project to accomplish the following: 1) Build two new Community Gardens operated by Shoreline Workforce Development Services and Pueblo del Mar; 2) Leverage the expertise of local organic farms to increase the knowledge of effective food production for low-income persons; 3) Establish a composting enterprise at the community garden to generate sufficient funds to cover the expenses of the project's part-time Garden Steward; 4) Collaborate with CSUMB service learning students to develop and deliver nutrition education programs for the project's three community gardens; and, 5) Increase the consumption of nutritional foods by low-income and homeless people in the Salinas and Marina thereby improving their health.
Legislation: FY11 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations

Homeland Security Appropriations

Project name: Continuing Training Grants Report Language Request
Requested amount: $0
Intended recipient and address: Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School, 1 University Circle Monterey, CA 93943
Project description: CTG programs meet the continuing training and education needs of responder communities. CTG also includes programs that deliver homeland security curricula in the form of executive education programs and accredited master's degree education, such as the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School. This report language would provide continued funding for training and education initiatives that further the Department's mission to prepare the nation to prevent, respond to, and recover from incidents of terrorism.
Legislation: FY11 Homeland Security Appropriations Act

Project name: Defense Manpower Data Center
Requested amount: $0
Intended recipient and address: Not Applicable/Language Request
Project description: Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is mandated to provide identity management for the Department of Defense. DMDC provides direct support to sensitive military units and assists other federal agencies by demonstrating how they can manage their large data stores. By leveraging DMDC's existing Cybersecurity and Operational Identity Management (COIM) resources, the National Cybersecurity Division will be able to better organize and manage its data, improve information security, while also providing enterprise-based solutions for DHS and its partners.
Legislation: FY11 Homeland Security Appropriations 

Project name: Immigration Integration Report Language Request
Requested amount: $0
Intended recipient and address: Not Applicable/Language Request
Project description: An important responsibility for US Citizenship and Immigration Services is the promotion of legal paths to U.S. citizenship and outreach to immigrant communities. USCIS runs the Immigration Integration program, which provides competitive funding opportunities to support citizenship preparation services for Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs), help immigrants better integrate into their communities, and welcome these new Americans. These grant activities focus on promoting the rights and responsibilities of citizenship through citizenship education and immigration integration in communities across the country. This report language would direct CIS to include community based swearing in ceremonies on or around the Fourth of July in the Immigration Integration program.
Legislation: FY11 Homeland Security Appropriations  

Project name: Lower Carmel River & Lagoon Floodplain Restoration
Requested amount: $3 million
Intended recipient and address: Monterey County Water Resources Agency, 893 Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93901
Project description: The Lower Carmel River & Lagoon Floodplain Restoration proposes to restore floodplain and riparian function to the project site. The Carmel River flows into the Carmel lagoon area which has previously resulted in flooding of homes adjacent to the Carmel lagoon. Significant amount of additional flooding of adjacent homes would have occurred in prior years without the annual mechanical breaching of the Carmel lagoon under a local emergency proclamation. Improvements in the Carmel lagoon area will facilitate a breaching of the lagoon that does not flood the adjacent homes. Additionally, the area experiences winter storms and tidal action each year that cause ocean waves to crash into the supporting materials for Scenic Drive, which wraps around the north end of Carmel lagoon outlet area. A portion of the total project proposed includes installing flood protection measures including a retaining wall which would support the roadway and provide a barrier from the wave and tidal action. The Project meets the goals of restoring riparian and riverine habitat; providing open space, wildlife, flood management, and water quality benefits; reducing property damage caused by flooding; restoring and enhancing the natural ecological values of streams; and promoting community involvement.
Legislation: FY11 Homeland Security Appropriations

Interior Appropriations

Project name: Big Sur Unit Los Padres
Requested amount: $5 million
Intended recipient and address: U.S. Forest Service, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250
Project description: This 485-acre inholding in the Silver Peak Wilderness is a USFS acquisition priority within the Big Sur Ecosystem. The rugged property provides recreation opportunities, supports critical habitat for listed species, and protects sensitive watersheds. The Wilderness Land Trust has used private funds to purchase similar properties in the region, and a $2 million appropriation would further leverage private and state funds in support of this regional priority acquisition.
Legislation: FY11 Interior and Environment Appropriations

Project name: Industrial Waste Water Treatment Facility Repairs
Requested amount: $990,000
Intended recipient and address: City of Salinas, 200 Lincoln Ave., Salinas, CA 93901
Project description: Since the late 1940's, the City has collected, treated and disposed of wastewater collected from industrial dischargers. Subsequent upgrades increased both treatment and disposal capacity, and include adding the aeration lagoon in 1974 and pumping effluent from the ponds to the disposal drying beds in 1985. The City of Salinas has become an urban island surrounded by the most productive vegetable producing area in the country.
This project deserves Federal funds for the following reasons: 1) The area is home to large processing, storage, and marketing of Monterey County's $3.4 billion agriculture industry; 2) Fresh produce from the area is processed and/or packaged in Salinas and shipped to destinations around the world, and supplies 80% of the nation's lettuces and artichokes; 3) The Salinas area is home to approximately 25,000 jobs related to the agriculture industry; 4) The proposed capital improvement is necessary to accommodate a new industrial agriculture facility that will bring an added 6,300 new jobs; 5) The fresh produce packaging process, uses water for cleaning the product prior to shipment and this has become more acute as national food safety concerns regarding fresh produce have increased over the produce industry and a perceived need to extra-insure a clean product; and 6)The City of Salinas is experiencing over 22 percent unemployment rate which is the highest in twenty years.
Legislation: FY11 Interior and Environment Appropriations

Project name: Laguna Grande and Roberts Lake Project
Requested amount: $500,000
Intended recipient and address: City of Seaside, 440 Harcourt Avenue, Seaside, CA, 93955
Project description: The city is requesting $500,000 for feasibility planning and account design and is prepared to meet all federal matching requirements for the STAG account.
Legislation: FY11 Interior and Environment Appropriations

Project name: Regional Urban Water Augmentation Project
Requested amount: $3 million
Intended recipient and address: Marina Coast Water District, 11 Reservation Road, Marina, CA 93933
Project description: The recycled water system created by the RUWAP would service many existing and new water users within the previous Fort Ord Community, City of Marina, and the Monterey Peninsula (defined as the California-American Water Company's Monterey Division service area). Existing users' irrigation systems would be disconnected from the potable water system and would tie directly into the new recycled water system. Cross-connection testing would be performed at all facilities in accordance with California regulations. New users would connect their irrigation systems directly to the recycled water main. At present, RUWAP is a shovel-ready project; it is fully designed with environmental review completed under both the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and key permits completed. Funding is required in order for the project to move forward into construction.
Legislation: FY11 Interior and Environment Appropriations

Project name: Zebra Mussel Eradication Program
Requested amount: $2,349,500
Intended recipient and address: San Benito County Water District, 30 Mansfield Road, P.O. Box 899, Hollister, CA 95024
Project description: Hollister is home to approximately 38,000, with a total population of approximately 57,000 for the county. San Benito County produces over 40 different crops, and agriculture continues to be the county's major producing industry grossing over $200 million dollars annually. San Benito County Water District encompasses the communities of Hollister and San Juan Bautista, plus the unincorporated areas of San Benito County, and provides CVP water service and CVP benefit to approximately 85% of the County's population. Zebra mussel fouling and damage to reservoir and pipeline infrastructure would render unusable said infrastructure for water service deliveries to customers, thus further impacting a community already in economic down-turn. Most importantly, if this infestation is not eradicated in the next few years, zebra mussels will likely spread to other reservoirs, waterways, and pipelines in the region. This would be truly catastrophic, and would encompass a scale of impact and cost to the region on an order of magnitude equivalent to the Great Lakes zebra and quagga mussel infestation. Although operated and maintained by SBCWD, the Hollister Conduit and San Justo Reservoir are parts of the Central Valley Project, and thus Federal-government owned facilities.
Legislation: FY11 Interior and Environment Appropriations

Labor, Health & Human Services, Education Appropriations

Project name: Santa Cruz County Psychiatric Health Facility
Requested amount: $1 million
Intended recipient and address: Health Services Agency, County of Santa Cruz, 1080 Emeline Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Project description: Effective December 2013, the Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz County, California, will close the only inpatient psychiatric unit in Santa Cruz County. The Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency needs to build a new 16-bed Psychiatric Health Facility to serve local residents needing acute, temporary, locked inpatient and psychiatric evaluation services. The requested fund will be used to provide construction support for the facility. The Santa Cruz County Psychiatric Health Facility project is relevant to Federal ‘access to health care objectives, specifically to ensure that Medicaid and Medicare patients (especially veterans and vulnerable disabled patients) have access to necessary mental health services. Without this new facility, Santa Cruz County will have no inpatient psychiatric hospital beds in the county. Although contracts for overflow patients are in place with two hospitals in the greater Bay Area region, neighboring counties are experiencing similar challenges and are not able to offer sufficient acute psychiatric beds to Santa Cruz County's need.
Legislation: FY11 Labor, Health & Human Services, Education Appropriations Bill 

Project name: Silver Star Gang Prevention and Intervention Program
Requested amount: $1,860,000
Intended recipient and address: County of Monterey, Probation Department, 1422 Natividad Road, Salinas, CA 93906
Project description: The Silver Star Gang Prevention and Intervention (SSGPI) program uses a comprehensive, multi-agency collaborative model to avert and reduce gang association, membership and activities among youth 6-21 in Monterey County. This program combines probation supervision, educational, vocational and job training assistance, counseling services and truancy abatement, and also adds mentoring, community mobilization and outreach, and family support services to gang-involved or at-risk youth. The SSGPI program is designed to identify at-risk youth then provide them with the correct support services to increase the youth's ability to prevent and deter gang association. The requested funds will support: Campus-based Probation Officer programs in local middle schools; Truancy Abatement; Dual-diagnosis counseling; Job preparation, training and experience; Community outreach services, Community education, and gang prevention; Mentoring; Family support service and parenting. This is a valuable use of federal funds in order to help maintain law and order and to re-establish livable, safe inner-city communities.
Legislation: FY11 Labor, Health & Human Services, Education Appropriations Bill

Project name: Watsonville Area Teens Conserving Habitat (WATCH)
Requested amount: $268,000
Intended recipient and address: Monterey Bay Aquarium, 866 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940
Project description: WATCH is a critical component of the Aquarium's Mar y Campo (Sea and Field) long-term initiative based on the Community-Based Environmental Education (CBEE) model, which was developed from a collaborative project between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency & U.S. Department of Agriculture. This program serves one of the poorest performing school districts in the state where the drop-out rate for students - most of whom come from Latino immigrant and migrant families working in the local agricultural industry - is very high. Based on this program's prior success at other schools, the Monterey Bay Aquarium plans to expand this program to Watsonville High School in the 2010-211 school year. Currently, the WATCH program includes 30 kids, starting with a three week program during the summer and then extending throughout the school year with class work and after-school and weekend activities. The program will also be expanded with a component called "Family Science" which is designed to engage middle-school kids and their parents in various science and agriculturally related activities. Using community settings and by encouraging science activities at home, the 2010 Family Science component will focus on food and sustainable farming.
Legislation: FY11 Labor, Health & Human Services, Education Appropriations Bill 

Project name: YWCA Violence Prevention and Intervention in Monterey County
Requested amount: $500,000
Intended recipient and address: YWCA of Monterey County, 457 Webster St., Monterey, CA 93940
Project description: Funding for the Violence Prevention and Intervention in Monterey County would allow the YWCA of Monterey County to provide shelter, food and treatment, as well as more counselors and case workers, to additional women, children and families who have experienced domestic violence in the underserved South Monterey County area. Additionally, this funding will allow YWCA of Monterey County to expand and enhance their counseling services in collaboration with Shelter Outreach Plus and Monterey County Rape Crisis Center. Over the past two years, violence towards women and incidences of gang violence have increased significantly within Monterey County. The closure of the Women's Crisis Center in Salinas has caused resources and services for women, children and families to shift to the YWCA Monterey County. Though YWCA Monterey County has increased counseling staff and services in collaboration with Shelter Outreach Plus in Salinas, there is still significant unmet need, particularly in the South County areas where there are currently no shelters and few services for domestic violence victims and their families.
Legislation: FY11 Labor, Health & Human Services, Education Appropriations Bill

Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations

Project name: International Academic Instruction Building
Requested amount: $11,560,000
Intended recipient and address: Naval Postgraduate School, 1 University Circle, Monterey, CA 93943
Project description: NPS enrollment is expected to double within five years. Because of our expanding global engagements, there is increased demand for international education. The lack of available facilities limits the ability of NPS to conduct additional international graduate education classes or hire additional faculty to accommodate course demand. Instructors currently share office space and new faculty members are often assigned office space in the library. High-ranking foreign military officers and dignitaries participating in resident short-courses are taught in classrooms with insufficient student visibility, inadequate ventilation and few or no breakout discussion rooms. Currently, instructors for several international programs must now vacate their offices to provide breakout rooms for their students. In addition, there are limited facilities for students and administrators to communicate internationally via e-mail, teleconferencing, etc. International programs/departments continually lose opportunities for sharing resources and staff as well as sharing information that results in improving international education programs.
Legislation: FY11 Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act

Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations

Project name: Commuter Rail Extension to Monterey County Project
Requested amount: $5 million
Intended recipient and address: Transportation Agency for Monterey County, 55-B Plaza Circle, Salinas, CA. 93901
Project description: An allocation of $5 million in Small Starts funds would fully fund the phase to acquire right-of way to extend the existing commuter rail service to Pajaro/Watsonville, Castroville and Salinas. This is a valuable investment of taxpayer funds as the project makes it possible for residents to utilize mass transit for their daily commute, and access healthcare, education, and interregional transportation (airports, trains) in the Silicon Valley, San Jose and San Francisco, providing an alternative to the heavily congested Highway 101 corridor. The project promotes economic development and livable communities, creates new jobs, improves air quality, saves up to $7 million annually in avoidance of highway accidents, and has regional and statewide support.
Legislation: FY11 Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations

Project name: Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail Project
Requested amount: $1 million
Intended recipient and address: Transportation Agency for Monterey County, 55-B Plaza Circle, Salinas, CA, 93901
Project description: This regionally important bicycle and pedestrian project will generate economic development, tourism revenue and support related small businesses. It will significantly improve cycle safety by providing an alternative to the narrow and dangerous shoulders of high speed State Route 1.
Legislation: FY11 Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations

Project name: Monterey-Salinas Transit Hybrid Bus Purchase
Requested amount: $1,040,000
Intended recipient and address: Monterey-Salinas Transit, One Ryan Ranch Road, Monterey, CA, 93940
Project description: Monterey Salinas Transit currently operates a fleet of 76 full sized transit buses equipped with engines that use ultra-low sulfur clean diesel fuel. The 21 buses that were purchased from Gillig, Corp., in Hayward California, in 2000 are coming up for replacement in 2012. MST has been monitoring other transit agencies' usage of hybrid engine-equipped buses as it nears the point at which a decision must be made for 2012 vehicle purchases.
Legislation: FY11 Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations

Project name: Monterey-Salinas Transit Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Security Systems Upgrade
Requested amount: $800,000
Intended recipient and address: Monterey-Salinas Transit, One Ryan Ranch Road, Monterey, CA, 93940
Project description: This equipment protects the safety of MST passengers as well as its staff members. When in danger, bus drivers can activate TransitMaster's overt and covert alarms, signaling the need for police, fire and/or ambulance. When these alarms are activated, microphones on the bus are activated so that staff in the communication center can monitor activity during emergency incidents; and, since the bus's position is pinpointed via GPS, communication center staff can instruct first responders to the exact location of the vehicle, saving valuable minutes during an emergency.
Legislation: FY11 Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations

Project name: Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line Rehabilitation
Requested amount: $1 million
Intended recipient and address: Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, 1523 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Project description: Rehabilitation of the rail line will help protect the public's investment in the purchase of the branch line, increase safety for the rail line operator, and ensure that the rail line is available for future uses
Legislation: FY11 Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations

Project name: US 101 San Juan Road Interchange Project
Requested amount: $2 million
Intended recipient and address: Transportation Agency for Monterey County, 55-B Plaza Circle, Salinas, CA, 93901
Project description: $2 million would be used for construction of the US 101 San Juan Road Interchange project, and three at-grade intersections will be removed at Dunbarton Road, San Juan Road and Cole Road. The project eliminates left turn conflicts and provides safer access for local businesses and residents. The San Juan Road area is a choke point for interregional travel along US 101 for goods movement, commuters and visitors. This project is a valuable investment of taxpayers' funds, as it will reduce congestion, improve the interregional flow of goods, reduce 141,000 tons of carbon dioxide, create 1,150 new jobs, and increase safety on a critical stretch of highway.
Legislation: FY11 Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations

Project name: Widening of State Route 156 in Monterey between Castroville and US 101
Requested amount: $2 million
Intended recipient and address: Transportation Agency for Monterey County, 55-B Plaza Circle, Salinas, CA. 93901
Project description: An allocation of $2 million in federal funds would fund the preliminary design for the widening of State Route 156 in Monterey between Castroville and US 101, one of the key projects in Monterey County identified by Caltrans and the Transportation Agency for Monterey County. This project is a valuable investment of taxpayers' funds, as widening the highway to a four-lane divided expressway or freeway would minimize fatal accidents, improve safety, and reduce existing and future peak-hour congestion on State Route 156 between Highway 1 and 101, as well as facilitate both goods movement and recreational travel.
Legislation: FY11 Transportation/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations