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Baucus, Tester
Secure Millions for Montana
Senators: $112 million for Montana in spending bill
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) –
Montana’s two U.S. Senators secured nearly $112 million for the Big Sky
State after negotiators this weekend threatened to axe all federal
funding for state-specific projects.
The money is part of a
bipartisan overall funding bill working its way through Congress.
The measure not only funds important services in the federal government
for the 2008 fiscal year, it sets aside $111.6 million for more than 120
individual projects across Montana, Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester
announced today.
Fighting a Veto
Threat
President Bush
previously had threatened to veto at-home spending measures put forth by
Congress, compelling some lawmakers to suggest stripping all
appropriations projects from the overall spending measure. Negotiators
came to an agreement on the legislation late Sunday.
Dollars to
Boost Montana's Economy
The various projects
improve Montana’s infrastructure, public safety, health care, crime
fighting, drug abuse, economic development, scientific research,
education and agriculture.
The funding for
each region of Montana breaks down as follows:
• Billings:
$9,681,578
• Bozeman: $16,459,135
• Butte: $12,438,800
• Great Falls: $9,315,172
• Helena: $4,450,145
• Kalispell: $6,275,641
• Missoula: $10,283,705
• Rural Montana: $42,702,202
“Jon and I weren’t
about to let anyone meddle with projects that bring good-paying jobs and
new opportunities to Montana,” Baucus said. “We fought hard for
these dollars because Montana deserves funding for things like better
highways, safer police stations and clean water.”
“Max and I fought
for—then rescued—money that will go a long way for all Montanans,
especially for folks in rural Montana,” Tester said. “We secured
this money despite an administration that’s out of touch with rural
America. I will always fight for good projects that make Montana a
great place to do business and the best place in the world to raise a
family.”
Finishing the
Job
The legislation passed
U.S. House, late Monday and is on it's way to the Senate. The
overall bill  will then go to President Bush,
who today said he hopes to sign it into law.
President Bush has
already signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, which sets
aside nearly $31 million for military research and development projects
across Montana.
A breakdown of the funding
for Montana’s projects is attached. Specific information about
individual projects is available on request.
Highlights
of the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill Include:
Billings
- $4,596,200
Shiloh Road
- $328,300 Cobb
Field
- $178,600 Billings
Police Department to purchase a crime scene investigation vehicle
- $206,800 Billings
Police Department for digital cameras for police vehicles
- $267,900 MSU-B
workforce development at women’s prison
- $260,000 Billings
Heights water system
- $260,000 Billings
Westwicks Lane water system
- $312,912 Yellowstone
River Corridor Study
- $957,967 St.
Vincent/Montana Children’s Health Care
- $306,549 Billings
Clinic Cancer Center
- $286,899 Billings
Clinic Diabetes Center
- $268,231 Billings
Clinic Rural Information System
- $268,231 Northwest
Research Institute/Rocky Mountain Health Care Network
- $153,275 MSU-B
Healthcare Education Program
- $153,275 MSU-B
Skilled Trades Workforce Center
- $123,799 MSU-B
Montana Energy Workforce Training Center
- $262,640 Housing
First Project
- $196,000 Harvest
Community Foundation (Billings Heights)
- $294,000 Billings
Food Bank
Bozeman
- $547,143 for
the Barley for Rural Development project. This project allows
MSU researchers to find and use high-quality barley for malt, feed,
food and ethanol.
- $148,950 for
the Montana Sheep Institute. This project will research the
role of sheep and goat grazing as means of controlling the spread
non-native weeds.
- $1,869,819 to
build MSU’s Animal Bioscience Research Facility, which will boost
the quality of Montana seedstock and the commercial livestock
industry.
- $983,070 for
the Joe Skeen Institute at MSU, which will go toward restoring,
sustaining and improving the health of Montana’s rangelands.
- $725,883 for
the Montana Sustainable Beef Network to boost Montana’s $900
million-per-year beef industry.
- $465,717 for
the Ruminant Nutrition Consortium
- $219,453 for
MSU’s Wool Research program
- $277,300 for
a mobile communications command vehicle and a special response
vehicle will allow Gallatin County first responders to respond more
quickly and efficiently to emergencies.
- $188,000 in
grants for local law enforcment
- $5,904,000 for MSU’s Center for Zero Emissions Research
& Technology which is focused on developing zero emissions coal
- $500,000 for
MSU’s TechRanch
- $200,000 for
Montana Manufacturing Extension Center
- $4,429,800 for the Sun Ranch Land Acquisition Project
consists of two conservation easement purchases to protect a
critical habitat for Montana wildlife and preserve and guarantee
hunting access
Butte
- $2,581,800 AATRA-NCAT - provides technical information,
educational resources, and assistance to farmers, ranchers and
agricultural information providers who are interested in sustainable
agriculture technologies and in marketing methods which improve farm
sustainability.
- $260,000 Basin Creek Reservoir
- $1,968,000 Western Environmental Technology Center
- $7,629,000 Army Reserve Center – for purchasing land,
constructing an ARC Training building, Organizational Maintenance Shop
(OMS), unheated storage building, and organizational parking.
- $260,000 Port of Montana Water
Great
Falls
- $7,000,000 Malmstrom Air Force Base Community Activity
Center
- $446,500 Great Falls Emergency Services Training Center
- $952,072 Benefis Healthcare Foundation
- $656,600 Great Falls Bus Facility
Helena
- $470,000 Montana Meth Project (another 446,500 will go to
the Meth Project Foundation in Missoula)
- $650,480 Montana Offender Notification Tracking System
(MONTS)
- $312,550 Montana Drug Courts
- $295,320 Missouri River Water Treatment Plant
- $246,100 Wolf Monitoring
- $191,593 Carroll College Civil Engineering Program
- $114,956 Shodair Children’s Hospital
- $114,956 St. Peter’s Hospital
- $984,900 1-15 Custer Avenue Interchange
- $426,790 Exploration Works
- $196,000 Rocky Mountain Development Center, Eagle Manor
Kalispell
- $3,939,600 Highway 93 Kalispell Bypass
- $885,960 Cline Mine/Flathead Baseline
Study
- $223,250 Flathead 911 Dispatch
- $268,231 FVCC - Entrepreneurship Program
- $178,600 Whitefish Police Department Equipment
- $260,000 Bigfork Ranch Water System
- $260,000 Greater Woods Bay Water System
- $260,000 Dayton Wastewater System
Missoula
- $580,450 to
purchase equipment for a new Missoula Police Headquarters.
- $312,550 to
improve The University of Montana’s Montana Youth Empowerment
Project.
- $89,300 to
purchase equipment for the Missoula
County Interoperable
Communications Center.
- $446,500 for
the Meth Project Foundation in Missoula
(another $470,000 will go to the statewide Montana Meth Project).
- $366,600 for
the Missoula
Public Safety
Training Center.
- $492,200 for
the Blackfoot River Special Recreation Management Area that will
protect critical wildlife habitat for rare, threatened and
endangered animal and plant species.
- $1,968,800 for
the North
Swan River
Valley Land
Acquisition.
- $583,000 for
the Montana
World Trade
Center.
- $593,448 for
St. Patrick Hospital Telemedicine Network to establish an electronic
medical record system component within the Montana Cardiology Telemedicine
Network to integrate patient records throughout the Network and to
enable all health care providers to have access to patient
information.
- $268,231 for
Community
Medical Center
to help provide new labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum birthing
suites; cesarean delivery rooms; and private rooms for neonatal
intensive care patients.
- $171,943 for
the UM Methamphetamine Detection and Health Effects Research where
Montana researchers are ideally positioned to establish an
integrated meth detection and health effects research program to
serve as a central resource for the nation in addressing Meth abuse.
- $114,956 for
the UM Rehabilitation, Research, and Training Center that will fund
a demonstration project under the Living and Working Well with a
Disability program under the auspices of Medicare/Medicaid.
- $76,637 for
the Montana Committee for the Humanities that will fund a year-long
program of conferences, forums, meetings, and other public
gatherings.
- $656,600 for
the Bridge Over Broadway that would provide a pedestrian bridge for
access to the Rattlesnake Recreation area new East Broadway Avenue.
- $656,600 for
homeWORD that will help to develop affordable, rental housing for
citizens of Missoula.
- $295,470 for
the Missoula Food Bank, Inc. Transportation System that will be used
to purchase eight refrigerated trucks to help transport food to food
shelters across the state.
- $2,058,000 for spiroid winglets research.
- $738,920 for
the Missoula Air Traffic Control tower replacement.
- $260,000 for
the Seeley Lake Water Improvements project.
Rural Montana
- Big Horn County $850,650 to improve the Crow Wastewater Lagoon.
- Blaine County $153,275 for the Ft. Belknap
Native Enrichment Project.
- Carter County $1,568,000 to pave a portion of Highway 323 near
Alzada.
- Custer County $167,030 for new tele-radiology equipment at
Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City.
- Custer County $906,000 to improve the National Guard’s Miles
City Readiness Center
- Custer County $335,043 to boost health care education programs
through Miles City Community College’s Pathways to Careers program.
- Glacier County $260,000 to improve the Cut Bank Wastewater
System.
- Granite County $260,000 to improve the Phillipsburg
Wastewater System.
- Hill County:
$5,904,000 for the Rocky
Boy’s-North Central Montana
Regional Water System.
- Hill County: $446,500 to improve the Chippewa
Cree Juvenile
Detention Center
on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation.
- Hill
County: $393,960 to transfer housing units from Malmstrom
Air Force Base to the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation.
- Hill
County: $7,500,000 for the settlement of Rocky Boy’s
Indian Reservation’s water claim.
- Jefferson County $260,000 to improve the Whitehall Wastewater
System.
- Lake County $229,810 to improve the transportation system
for the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes.
- Lincoln County $223,250 to improve the Eureka Justice Center.
- Lincoln County $248,580 to sustain services at the Center for
Asbestos-Related Disease in Libby.
- Madison County $76,637 to provide training for teachers through
the Northern Rockies Educational Service.
- Madison County $286,899 for facilities and equipment at the
Virginia City Nursing Home.
- Mineral County $223,250 for equipment and space for Mineral
County Search and Rescue.
- Park County $692,121 for the Yellowstone Interagency
Brucellosis Committee.
- Park County $986,049 for the Tri-State Predator Control
program to monitor wolves.
- Park County $3,740,720 to improve the Yellowstone National
Park Wastewater Project.
- Pondera County $752,200 to improve the Conrad Wastewater
System.
- Powell County $95,305 to help the Powell County Hospital buy
new emergency room equipment.
- Ravalli County $76,637 for the MAPS Program at the Florence
Revor Prosten Foundation.
- Ravalli County $260,000 to improve the Hamilton Wastewater
System.
- Ravalli County $229,912 to help the Marcus Daly Memorial
Hospital build an emergency room.
- Ravalli County $262,640 to help restore the Daly Mansion in
Hamilton.
- Richland County $286,899 to improve the Sidney Health Center.
- Roosevelt County $9,840,000 for the Fort Peck-Dry Prairie Rural
Water System.
- Sheridan County $260,000 to improve the Phillipsburg Wastewater
System.
- Teton County $260,000 to improve the Power Water System.
- Toole County $191,593 to replace outdated equipment at the
Marias Medical Center.
- Valley County $297,168 for Fort Peck Cabin Sales.
- Valley County $260,000 to improve the Glasgow Wastewater
System.
- Statewide $645,504
for abandoned mine land restoration.
- Statewide $2,756,320
to boost the Small Public Water System Technical Assistance program,
which helps rural communities get clean water.
- Statewide
$191,549 for the Rural Health Technology Consortium.
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