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WASHINGTON - With today’s passage of FY05 federal spending legislation (H.R. 4818), U.S. Representative Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08) and U.S. Senator Kit Bond, members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, respectively, today announced much-needed projects for Southern Missouri. U.S. Senator Jim Talent also announced two initiatives on health care and energy which are included in the bill.
“These programs are vital to jobs, growth, and public programs in our congressional district. This is how Southern Missourians get a return on our investment of federal taxes – transportation, infrastructure, higher education, community betterment, and help in our fight against drugs,” Emerson said.
"This funding is an investment in the future of American families," said Senator Bond, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and chairman of the VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee. "From caring for our veterans, to making our homes lead-safe and helping our law enforcement in the war against meth these dollars will provide the resources needed to make our communities safer and stronger."
“Access to health care and reliable energy infrastructure is absolutely critical to our state’s rural communities, particularly in economically distressed neighborhoods,” said Sen. Talent. “This initiative will provide these areas with access to quality health care by taking the care to them. I am strongly committed to improving the quality of health care in Southeast Missouri. I am also pleased the package includes funding for the University of Missouri-Rolla. The University is already a leader in science and engineering and this funding will help them modernize our electricity grid to prevent blackouts like the one experienced on August 14, 2003. I will continue working with Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson to make certain the University always remains on the cutting edge of new technologies.”
The conference report on the omnibus appropriations bill passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 344-51, contains federal spending measures for much of the federal government, including Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Transportation, and Energy and Water.
Following are projects Emerson, Bond, and Talent requested and the levels at which they are funded:
Area/Amount Project
Transportation
$3,000,000 Rte. 60 – Howell County
3,000,000 U.S. 60 Interchange Improvements – Stoddard County
2,300,000 Southeast Missouri bus transit projects
1,500,000 Farmington Airport
1,000,000 Nash Road Extension
100,000 I-55 Corridor
100,000 Cape Girardeau Fountain Street Downtown Revitalization
500,000 I-44 Corridor – Phelps County
Agriculture
$708,000 MU Delta Center – Soybean Cyst Nematode research
671,428 MidWest/MidSouth Irrigation Project (Delta Center)
50,000 Feral Hog Control
214,000 MU Delta Center – Rice Agronomy
1,875,000 Food and Agricultural Policy Research Initiative (FAPRI)
1,215,000 MU Rural Policy Research Institute
608,000 Vitis Gene Discovery
Education, Health & Human Services
$550,000 SE Missouri State Univ. – Workforce Development
650,000 SE Missouri State Univ. – Mobile Health Unit (with Sen.Talent)
470,000 SE Missouri Health Network
500,000 Mineral Area College
400,000 MO Bootheel Fatherhood First Program
VA-HUD
$200,000 SE Missouri State Univ. – River Campus
200,000 Farm Bureau Soybean Discovery Institute
Commerce-Justice-State
$200,000 Farmington Children’s Home
200,000 Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force
100,000 South Central Missouri Drug Task Force
250,000 Mineral Area Drug Task Force
Energy and Water
$750,000 Cape Girardeau Floodwall repairs
1,500,000 Bois Brule
8,300,000 St. John’s Levee construction
5,000,000 Wappapello Lake maintenence
350,000 Caruthersville Harbor
2,424,000 Clearwater Lake
188,000 New Madrid Harbor
188,000 SEMO Port
2,000,000 UMR Electricity Transmission (with Sen. Talent)
All federal projects for FY05 will be subject to an additional .83 percent across-the-board reduction, per federal budgetary legislation.
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