Omnibus Conference Report Earmarks -- California Capitol Hill Bulletin -- Volume 10, Bulletin 3 -- February 14, 2003
Following are some of the earmarks included in the Omnibus Conference Report passed by the House on February 13. There are many more than the below sampling. In the future, we intend to prepare a full list.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has also compiled a sampling of California-related earmarks in the Omnibus on issues such as Transportation Projects, Lake Tahoe, Public Safety Projects, Agriculture, and Economic Development. See: http://feinstein.senate.gov/03Releases/r-omnibus03.htm .
K-12 Education Earmarks
The conference agreement includes a number of education earmarks, including $500,000 to Imperial Valley Telecommunications Authority for telecommunications equipment and upgrades to support distance education programs in elementary and middle schools; $225,000 to the International Foundation for Music Research in Carlsbad for science-based research on music education; $260,000 to the Korean Youth and Community Center in Los Angeles to expand programs at the Koreatown Academic Learning Center; $600,000 to the L.A. County Office of Education in Downey for the "Early Advantage" initiative to provide preschool and family learning activities and training for parents, child care providers and community members; $300,000 to Los Angeles Harbor College to expand early childhood education curricula, evaluation and professional development; $225,000 to Mission Education Projects in San Francisco to expand education programs for children and families; $500,000 to Oakland Unified School District for personnel and related expenses to expand extended day kindergarten to new sites; $100,000 to Pasadena Unified School District for a math science and technology magnet program at the Washington Middle School; $100,000 to the Pico Union Family Resource Center in Los Angeles to expand education programs for youth and adults; $400,000 to the Pomona Unified School District for a Teacher Literacy Training and Technology program; $250,000 to the Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto for an e-learning pilot program at Belle Haven Elementary in Menlo Park; $500,000 to the Riverside County Office of Education to further implement and develop a County Achievement Team model; $400,000 to the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency in coordination with the Sacramento City Unified School District for early childhood education, after school and parental support programs for students in the Franklin Villa community; $500,000 to the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools to expand schools-to-careers initiative, including the Virtual Hi-Tech Program, the Virtual Career Library and teacher training activities; $217,000 to the San Pasqual Academy in Escondido for technology infrastructure; $100,000 to the Santa Barbara Community youth Performing Arts Center for the Santa Barbara Junior High Theatre; $50,000 to the Santa Barbara High School District for the San Marcos High School Health Careers Academy; $55,000 to the South County Family Educational and Cultural Center in Grover Beach for the Computers to Youth program to expand education programs for students; $250,000 to the Gibson Foundation in Santa Monica for music education programs; $225,000 to the West Ed Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Science and Mathematics in San Francisco for 24 Challenge and Jumping Levels Math; and $20,000 to Westside High School for equipment.
Higher Education Earmarks
Earmarks in higher education accounts include $400,000 to California State University Northridge for technology and other expenses to develop an entertainment engineering curriculum; $250,000 to City College of San Francisco for the National Articulation and Transfer Network to facilitate the completion of postsecondary education by underrepresented African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American students; $35,000 to Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo for supplies and equipment for its nursing education program; $700,000 to Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego for expanded math and science education; $300,000 to L.A. Mission College for its Economic Self-Help project to train small business owners; $250,000 to L.A. Valley College for a career ladder nursing program in collaboration with Los Angeles Southwest College; $200,000 to the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center in the Los Angeles Unified School District to expand education and training programs; $200,000 to the Mendocino-Lake Community College District in Ukiah to develop an associates degree program in nursing; $500,000 to National University in La Jolla for the Institute for Persons Who Are Hard of Hearing or Deaf; $400,00 to New College of California in San Francisco to establish degree programs in community studies, urban ecology and sustainability studies, and spirituality and politics through a new institute, and for student scholarships; $93,000 to Pasadena City College to develop a biotechnology training program; $900,000 to Santa Clara University for telecommunications and technology equipment and upgrades; $500,000 to the Santa Clarita Community College District for equipment and personnel for the University Center; $300,000 to Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park for communications and laboratory equipment to establish a graduate program in computer and engineering sciences; $250,000 to U.C. Merced for acquisition of science equipment; $250,000 to U.C. Merced to establish the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, including student fellowships and internships, software and equipment; $400,000 to the University of the Pacific in Stockton for the Eberhart School of Business; $700,000 to the University of Redlands and the CSU San Bernardino to enhance their current Arabic and Islamic Studies programs; $700,000 to the University of Redlands for technology enhancement; $1 million to the University of San Francisco for education, service and research programs at the Center for Public Service and the Common Good; and $425,000 to West Los Angeles College in Culver City for equipment, curricula, faculty, and other expenses to develop an emergency health services training program.
Institute of Museum and Library Services Earmarks
The agreement provides $245.5 million in funding for libraries, higher than the House or Senate numbers, and it adds various earmarks, which include: $500,000 to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco; $250,000 to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana; $275,000 to CSU San Marcos to upgrade catalog and provide computer stations for the library; $100,000 to the Children's Museum of Stockton for a Delta Regional Exhibit; $100,000 to Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; $900,000 to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science; $92,000 to the Glendale Public Library to implement the Homework AssisTeens program; $200,000 to Hesperia Community Library; $300,000 to the Monterey County Youth Museum; $75,000 to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles for its "Earth Oddessy" environmental science program; $200,000 to Orangevale Library in Sacramento; $500,000 to the San Bernardino County Museum to develop the Inland Empire Archival Heritage Center and Web Module; $110,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Los Angeles Museum for Tolerance for the Tools for Tolerance for Educators program to provide teacher training in diversity, tolerance and cooperation; $300,000 to the Whittier Public Library to establish a children's homework center and family literacy center; and $100,000 to the Zimmer Children's Museum of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles for expansion of the YouThink program.
Health Facility Earmarks
The conference agreement provides $298 million for construction and renovation of health care and other facilities, with earmarks including: $150,000 for Children's Hospital Central California for construction fo the Pediatric Trauma Unit in Los Angeles; $475,000 for Children's Hospital of San Diego; $100,000 to the City of Glendale for the Edison-Pacific Community Medical Clinic; $650,000 to the County of San Mateo; $500,000 to the Department of Public Health in Redding for a new Public Health Laboratory; $500,000 to the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage; $300,000 to Family Health Centers of San Diego; $250,000 to the Friendship House Association of American Indians in San Francisco; $250,000 to Glide Memorial Foundation in San Francisco; $200,000 to Grossmont College in El Cajon; $700,000 to the Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree; $240,000 to Los Angeles City College; $300,000 to Moneta Gardens Improvement Inc in Hawthorne; $1.25 million to MultiDimensional Imaging Inc in Newport Beach; $175,000 to Navidad Medical Center in Salinas; $1.3 million to the Orthopaedic Hospital of Los Angeles; $100,000 to Paradise Valley Hospital in National City; $900,000 to Placer County Children's Emergency Shelter in Auburn; $150,000 to Preventative Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito; $550,000 to Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo; $100,000 to U.C. San Diego to purchase and install new angiography equipment in a new interventional radiology unit; $200,000 for the Hahn School of Nursing at the University of San Diego; and $400,000 to Walden House in San Francisco.
Agriculture Earmarks
The Conferees also agreed to $1,052,770,000 for Agricultural Research Services activities. Funding increases are agreed to for the following California laboratories and areas of research:
$200,000 for Genetic Resources Research, Riverside; Parlier; and Davis
$400,000 for Agricultural Genome Sequencing in Albany
$400,000 for Biobased Products at Albany
$400,000 Technologies for Biobased Products at Albany
$200,000 to Improve Conversion of Agricultural Materials to Biofuels at Albany
$400,000 for research pertaining to Limit Transgene Activity to Specific Tissue at Albany
$200,000 to Develop Biocontrol Programs for Invasive Pests at Davis
$400,000 BSE/TSE Research at Albany
$40,000 for the Greenhouse Lettuce Germplasm at Salinas
$200,000 for Olive Fruit Fly Research, Parlier
$250,000 Sustainable Viticulture Research, Davis.
In addition, the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service is funded at $620,827,000 with appropriations for the following California projects:
$1,900,000 Exotic Pest Diseases
$40,000 Olive Fly
$430,000 Ozone Air Quality
$2,250,000 Pierce's Disease
$100,000 Sudden Oak Death
$500,000 Sustainable Agriculture
$1,800,000 Viticulture Consortium (split between CA, NY, PA)
The Conference Agreement provides $825,004,000 Natural Resource Conservation Services including:
$375,000 for Contra Costa County Watershed Surveys
$1,000,000 for the East Valley Conservation District/Santa Ana Watershed
Authority Plant Removal project
$84,000 for the Agricultural Non-point source water quality-San Luis Obispo Farm Bureau
$600,000 for the Monterey Bay Sanctuary
$400,000 for the Tahoe Basin Soil Conservation Project (NV/CA)
$200,000 for the Lake Tahoe Basin area soil survey (NV/CA)
A report from the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein totaled funding for Sudden Oak Death at $3.7 million, and noted funding for a Center for Exotic Pest Research of $1.9 million. It also noted funding for addressing Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter problems via a State Control Plan of $17.5 million, Agriculture Research Service funding of $3.35 million, and Competitive Research Grants of $2.25 million.
Army Corps of Engineers - General Investigations Earmarks
General investigations earmarks for the Army Corps of Engineers include:
Aliso Creek Mainstem $300,000; American River Watershed $1.28 million; Arana Gulch Watershed $50,000; Arroyo de la Laguna $100,000; Ballona Creek $175,000; Bolinas Lagoon $300,000; California Coastal Sediment Master Plan $100,000; City of Inglewood $200,000; City of Norwalk $100,000; City of San Bernardino $250,000; City of Santa Clarita $100,000; South Coast - LA County $350,000; Coyote Dam $100,000; Desert Hot Springs $200,000; Eastern Municipal Water District $150,000; Estudillo Canal $100,000; Folsom Dam $100,000; Grayson and Murderer's Creeks $200,000; Huntington Harbor Dredging $100,000; Laguna Creek Watershed $100,000; Laguna de Santa Rosa $100,000; Llagas Creek $325,000;Los Angeles County $225,000; Los Angeles County Drainage Area (Cornfields) $100,000; Lower Cache Creek (Yolo County) $250,000; Lower Mission Creek $500,000; Malibu Creek Watershed $200,000; Marin County Shoreline - San Clemente Creek $25,000; Marina Del Rey and Ballona Creek $275,000; Matilija Dam $200,000; Middle Creek $50,000; Morro Bay Estuary $250,000; Mugu Lagoon $250,000; Dry Creek in Middletown $200,000; Lower Sacramento River Riparian Revegitation $100,000; Napa River Salt Marsh Restoration $1 million; Newport Bay $300,000; Newport Bay/San Diego Creek Watershed $250,000; Ocean Beach $50,000; Santa Ana River Basin $200,000; Coast Beach Erosion - Orange County $250,000; Orange County SAMP $300,000; Pajaro River at Watsonville $500,000; Pajaro River Basin Study $100,000; Fine Flat Dam $200,000; Poso Creek $200,000; Prado Basin $50,000; Riverside County SAMP $1 million; Rock Creek and Keefer Slough $25,000; Russian River Ecosystem Restoration $200,000; Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta $100,000; Sacramento-San Joaquin Comprehensive Basin Study $3.1 billion; San Bernardino County $200,000; San Clemente Shoreline $398,000; San Diego SAMP $600,000; San Diego County Shoreline $500,000; San Francisco Bay $300,000; San Jacinto River $250,000; San Joaquin River Basin (various) $900,000; San Juan Creek $200,000; San Pablo Bay Watershed $240,000; Santa Ana River - Big Bear Lake $300,000; Santa Clara River - City of Santa Clarita $200,000; Santa Cruz Port $50,000; Santa Rosa Creek Watershed $260,000; Santa Ynez River $50,000; Solana-Encinitas $500,000; Sonoma Creek $150,000; Strong and Chicken Ranch Sloughs $100,000; Sutter County $677,000; Tahoe Basin $1.5 million; Tijuana River Valley $300,000; Tujunga Wash Restoration $100,000; Upper Guadalupe River $200,000; Upper Penitencia Creek $559,000; Upper Santa Ana River Watershed $150,000; Ventura and Santa Barbara County Shoreline $200,000; Ventura Harbor Sand Bypass $150,000; Westminster- Coyote and Carbon Canyon Creek Watersheds $50,000; Westminister - East Garden Grove $300,000; White River and Deer Creek $150,000; Whitewater River Basin $350,000; Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks $50,000.
Army Corps of Engineers - Construction Earmarks
Corps of Engineers construction funding includes the following earmarks: American River Watershed-Folsom Dam Modifications $4.9 million; American River Watershed $22.3 million; City of Santa Clarita $1.5 million; Corte Madera Creek $100,000; Coyote and Berryessa Creeks $750,000; Farmington Groundwater Recharge Demo Program $1 million; Guadalupe River $8 million; Hamilton Airfield Wetlands Restoration $5 million; Harbor/South Baywater Recycling $6 million; Imperial Beach - Silver Strand Shoreline $600,000; Kaweah River $11 million; Los Angeles Harbor $12 million; Lower Sacramento Area Levee Reconstruction $1.68 million; Marysville-Yuba City Levee Reconstruction $5.9 million; Merced County Streams $500 million; Mid Valley Area Levee Reconstruction $ 5.2 million; Murietta Creek $1 million; Napa River $9 million; Newport Bay Harbor $972,000; North Valley Regional Water Infrastructure $1 million; Oakland Harbor (50 foot project) $12 million; Petaluma River $6 million; Sacramento River $2 million; Sacramento River Bank Protection $2.6 million; Sacramento River Deepwater Ship Channel $250,000; Sacramento River - Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District $806,000; San Francisco Bay to Stockton $1.8 million; San Lorenzo River $2.8 million; San Ramon Valley $300,000; Santa Ana River Mainstem $35 million; Santa Barbara Harbor $100,000; South Perris $1 million; South Sacramento County Streams $2 million; Success Dam $1 million; Surfside - Sunset - Newport Beach $4.3 million; Tule River $2 million; Upper Sacramento Area Levee Reconstruction $3.5 million; and Yuba River Basin $500,000.
Army Corps of Engineers - Operation and Maintenance Earmarks
Corps of Engineers earmarks for operation and maintenance include: Black Butte Lake $2 million; Bodega Bay $1.9 million; Buchanan Dam $1.8 million; Channel Islands Harbor $4.2 million; Coyote Valley Dam $3.6 million; Crescent City Harbor $600,000; Dry Creek Lake and Channel $4.8 million Farmington Dam $308,000; Hidden Dam - Hensley Lake $1.8 million; Humboldt Harbor and Bay $4.5 million; inspection of completed works in CA $1.1 million; Isabella Lake $1.2 million; Los Angeles - Long Beach Harbor Model and Harbors $490,000; Marina Del Rey $60,000; Merced County Streams $313,000; Mojave River Dam $259,000; Morro Bay Harbor $1.3 million; Moss Landing Harbor $1.5 million; New Hogan Lake $2 million; New Melones Lake $1.7 million; Newport Bay Harbor $1 million; Oakland Harbor $11.2 million; Oceanside Harbor $1.2 million; Petaluma River $1.3 million; Pillar Point Harbor $200,000; Pine Flat Lake $2.5 million; Port Hueneme $500,000; project condition surveys in CA $1.1 million; Richmond Harbor $4.4 million; Sacramento River (30 foot project) $2.2 million; Sacramento River & Tributaries Debris Control $1.3 million; Sacramento River Shallow Draft Channel $145,000; San Diego Harbor $150,000; San Diego River and Mission Bay $60,000; San Francisco Bay Delta Model Structure $1.2 million; San Francisco Bay Long Term Management Strategy $1 million; San Francisco Harbor and Bay Drift Removal $2.1 million; San Francisco Harbor $1.9 million; San Joaquin River $2.5 million San Pablo Bay and Mare Island Strait $1.5 million; Santa Ana River Basin $3.4 million; Santa Barbara Harbor $1.8 million; scheduling reservoir operations in California $1.4 million; Success Lake $2 million; Suisun Bay Channel $3.8 million; Terminus Dam - Lake Kaweah $1.8 million; Ventura Harbor $3.9 million; and Yuba River $63,000.
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