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Senator Roberts: Senate Passes Energy and Water Appropriations Bill; Contains Important Kansas Projects
Jul 30 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts announced the Senate passed the Energy and Water Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010 containing critical investment in Kansas’ infrastructure.
"The Energy and Water bill contains millions of dollars for improvements to our daily way of life. This bill contains projects that will make critical investments in our Kansas lakes, streams and rivers for recreation, drinking water and flood control," Senator Roberts said. The following are Kansas projects Senator Roberts personally worked to include in the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill: Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Investigation Projects Grand (Neosho) River Basin-$162,000 Missouri Levee System-$340,000 Topeka, KS-$150,000 Missouri River Degradation, KS & MO-$600,000 Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers for Operations and Maintenance Wilson Lake-$300,000 The following are Kansas projects Senators Roberts and Brownback worked to include in the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill: Department of Energy-Office of Science KU Cancer Research Equipment-$4,000,000 Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Construction Projects Turkey Creek Basin, KS & MO-$1,000,000 Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Investigation Projects Brush Creek Basin, KS & MO-$242,000 Manhattan, KS-$255,000 Upper Turkey Creek-$170,000 Continued Funding of Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources Projects Wichita Project-Equus Beds Division-$2,000,000 The following projects were included in the President’s request for this bill:
Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Construction Projects
Missouri River Fish Mitigation, KS, MO, IA, MT, NE-$60,000,000
Continued Funding of Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources Projects
Kansas Investigations Program-$25,000
Wichita Project-Cheney Division-$405,000
Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers for Operations and Maintenance
Clinton Lake, KS-$2,073,000
Council Grave Lake, KS-$1,739,000
El Dorado Lake, KS-$786,000
Elk City Lake, KS-$718,000
Fall River Lake, KS-$1,283,000
Hillsdale Lake, KS-$860,000
Inspection of Completed Works, KS-$220,000
John Redmond Dam and Reservoir, KS-$3,685,000
Kanopolis Lake, KS-$2,288,000
Marion Lake, KS-$1,820,000
Melvern Lake, KS-$2,151,000
Milford Lake, KS-$2,057,000
Pearson-Skubitz Bill Hill Lake, KS-$1,472,000
Perry Lake, KS-$2,015,000
Pomona Lake, KS-2,047,000
Scheduling Reservoir Operations, KS-$100,000
Toronto Lake, KS-$3,522,000
Tuttle Creek Lake, KS-$2,062,000
Wilson Lake, KS-$2,017,000
Kansas benefits from the teamwork of Senator Roberts and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), a key member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
This bill now goes to a conference committee with the House of Representatives passed bill to iron out the differences between the two bills.
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