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"The Energy and Water bill contains millions of dollars for improvements to our daily lives including 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-$90,000
Missouri Levee System-$291,000
Topeka, KS-$143,000
Missouri River Degradation, KS & MO-$556,000
Kansas City, KS & MO-$386,000
Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers for Operations and Maintenance
Wilson Lake-$200,000
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-$2,822,000
Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Investigation Projects
Brush Creek Basin, KS & MO-$217,000
Manhattan, KS-$134,000
Upper Turkey Creek-$90,000
Continued Funding of Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources Projects
Wichita Project-Equus Beds Division-$1,500,000
Department of Energy-Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Wichita State University, National Institute for Aviation Research, Advanced Materials Research-$1,500,000
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-$56,686,000
Continued Funding of Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources Projects
Kansas Investigations Program-$24,000
Wichita Project-Cheney Division-$389,000
Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers for Operations and Maintenance
Clinton Lake, KS-$1,970,000
Council Grove Lake, KS-$1,653,000
El Dorado Lake, KS-$1,132,000
Elk City Lake, KS-$682,000
Fall River Lake, KS-$1,219,000
Hillsdale Lake, KS-$817,000
Inspection of Completed Works, KS-$209,000
John Redmond Dam and Reservoir, KS-$3,502,000
Kanopolis Lake, KS-$2,174,000
Marion Lake, KS-$1,730,000
Melvern Lake, KS-$2,044,000
Milford Lake, KS-$1,955,000
Pearson-Skubitz Big Hill Lake, KS-$1,399,000
Perry Lake, KS-$1,915,000
Pomona Lake, KS-1,945,000
Scheduling Reservoir Operations, KS-$100,000
Toronto Lake, KS-$3,347,000
Tuttle Creek Lake, KS-$1,960,000
Wilson Lake, KS-$1,772,000
Kansas benefits from the teamwork of Senator Roberts and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), a key member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
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