Interior and Environment Requests
Central District Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements - City of Baytown, Texas: The City of Baytown is seeking assistance in funding a six-year, $140 million Capital Improvement Project that will rehabilitate and upgrade the City’s wastewater and water infrastructure to comply with increased federal and state regulations, maintain its condition and reliability and save costs. The City has implemented an asset management program to assess equipment condition, optimize work practices and ensure funding remains in place to sustain infrastructure improvements over time. This project rehabilitates portions of the Central District Wastewater Treatment plant. The work includes redesign of critical components to elevate structures out of the floodway and to reduce the storm surge impacts suffered as was suffered during Hurricane Ike. These include the influent lift station, blower building, administration/laboratory building, and grit removal process. The internal piping needs to be replaced to improve energy and operating efficiency, along with the chlorine contact basin and plant pumping/transfer systems. Installation of post-storm emergency power systems are also a part of this project. I am requesting $2,835,000 for this project.
Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center - Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC): FY10 federal funding will enable the Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) to continue and enhance the largest air toxics study in the Houston region (HEATS) in order to help the Houston region to better understand how air toxics affect sensitive populations, including minorities and children, and to take action to address the health threats. FY10 federal funding will enable the NUATRC to continue its congressionally mandated mission to provide sound science to regulators and the public regarding the impact of air toxics on human health by encouraging the connections to health research being performed at the Texas Medical Center. I am requesting $2.6 million for this project.
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