EDUCATION

Youth Offenders Eligibility and Award Change

(unknown cost)

The item changes the eligible age limit from 25 to 35 (GREAT, I'M A 'YOUTH' AGAIN!) and expands the individual award cap from $1,500 to $2,500.  This is inconsistent with the President's '03 budget request which terminates the program in light of its redundancy with federally funded activities in other vocational and adult education programs.  The main impact of this item is that 481,000 prisoners between age 25 and 35 will now be eligible for these Federally funded awards.

INTERIOR

U.S. Geological Survey

Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center

$6.776 million in funding would be provided for data storage and a back-up power system for EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, SD. EROS is a national data reception, processing, archiving, distribution, and research facility for satellite and other remotely sensed data.  The proposed funding does not relate to the War on Terrorism or Homeland Security.  EROS is considered a mission critical site for the Department of the Interior, but it is not considered to be an element of critical infrastructure of national importance.

TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation - Amtrak

$55 million

The Senate Supplemental Bill provides $20 million to repair damaged Amtrak equipment, $12 for Amtrak security, and $23 million to do heavy overhaul of the Corporation's rail fleet. Two of the earmarked projects in the Senate bill are for routine fleet repair and overhaul and are not related at all to the War on Terrorism or Homeland Security.  Amtrak has not demonstrated emergency safety or security needs for the projects earmarked by the Senate.  However, the Corporation overall is in a dire financial situation and there is a danger that it may need additional (greater than the $521 million appropriated in FY 2002) federal subsidies to survive this year.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Design of Storage Facility ("Pod 5")

$2 million would be used to plan and design a storage facility, to be located in Suitland, MD, for long-term storage of the Smithsonian's collections of preserved animal species.

AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Research Service

$4.5 million for animal pathogens

$500,000 for plant pathogens

$2 million for research related to spongiform transmissible encephalopathy, including chronic wasting disease.

$2.5 million for vaccine trials related to foot and mouth disease

$3 million for plant genome sequencing

$500,000 for Newcastle disease

JUSTICE

Prosecuting cybercrime/terrorism. --  The general unfamiliarity of the public with even the most basic aspects of how computers work and what they are capable of makes prosecuting cyber criminals and terrorists particularly challenging.  Juries are overwhelmed by the jargon and intricacies of surfing the web.  Fortunately, the U.S. Attorneys have developed a low cost suite of computers and audio/video equipment for the courtroom that will prove invaluable in demonstrating to juries how w cyber attack was launched and the damage or cause.  The Committee recommendation includes $5.2 million for courtroom technology.

INS

Construction

$1.1 million                 Massena, New York

$500,000                     Blaine, Washington

$1.1 million                 Oroville, Washington

$1.3 million                 Calais, Washington

$200,000                     Van Buren, Maine

$200,000                     Grand Rapids, Michigan

$200,000                     Jackman, Maine

$3.4 million                 St. Mary’s, Montana

$1 million                    Bonners Ferry, Idaho

$1.4 million                 Ramey, Puerto Rico

$3 million                    Brownfield, California

$1 million                    Douglas, Arizona

$17 million                  El Centro, California

$6.8 million                 Campo, California

$36.87 million             Tucson, Arizona

COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

$23.4 million for the National Ocean Service to address critical mapping and charting backlog requirements, including $2.5 million for National Defense Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Studies' coral reef program.  This will conduct coral mapping in the waters of the Hawaiian Islands and the surrounding Exclusive Economic Zone in accordance with the mapping implementation strategy of the United States Coral Reef Task Force.

$3 million for the National Ocean Service to enhance the National Level Observation Network.

$2.8 for the National Environmental, Satellite, Data and Information Service

$11 million for economic assistance to New England Fisheries

• $2 million for Maine
• $2 million for New Hampshire
• $5.5 million for Massachusetts
• $1.5 million for Rhode island

$5 million for a coastal guardian program to provide additional relief to fishermen affected by the recent Federal court decision regarding the Northeast multispecies fishery.  Recipients must be interested in providing assistance to Federal agencies in the collection of information critical to the long-term security and sustainability of the region’s coastal environment

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

$37 million from local funds, of which $11 million shall be used by the Child and Family Services Agency to address increased adoption rates, higher case loads for adoption and emergency group home utilization.

ENERGY

Uranium Facilities Maintenance/Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6)

$100 million

Section 503 would require the Secretary of Energy to award a contract for the construction and operation of two DUF6 conversion facilities one each at the Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, gaseous diffusion plants.  (DUF6 is residual material from the enrichment of uranium for defense and commercial uses.)  The Department needs only one DUF6 facility.

$5 million for the Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, water and Related Resources, for the drilling of five wells in Santa Fe, New Mexico

LABOR

$200 million for national emergency grants and demonstration and pilot projects

$80 million for state formula grants

$110 million to reverse the recission of State formula grants enacted last year

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

$80,000 for the Wausau, Wisconsin Health Foundation for a survey and analysis of local health professionals career paths to better understand entry into and exit from health profession

$100,000 University of San Diego Institute for the Advancement of Health Policy to assess through teaching, research, and delivery of services the impact of public policy on families from vulnerable populations

$200,000 for the Luna County, New Mexico and the Columbus Volunteer Fire Departments to provide emergency medical services to immigrants

$350,000 for the Clinical Pharmacy Training Program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo

$475 for the American Federation of Negro affairs

$500,000 for the University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies in Seattle for a demonstration project to collect and analyze health workforce data

$800,000 for the University of Iowa for the training of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists

$1,000,000 for the Washington Health Foundation for a comprehensive demonstration project on improving nurse retention

$1,100,000 for the Iowa Department of Public Health to create a Center for health care Workforce Shortage

$50,000 for the Center for Great Expectation, Somerville, New jersey, to provide prenatal health care, education, and counseling for pregnant teens.

$565,000 for the Milwaukee Health Department for a pilot program providing health care services to at-risk children in day care.

$4,000,000 for the Columbia Hospital for Women Medical Center in Washington, DC to support community outreach programs for women.