U.S. Representative Stephanie Herseth

News from Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
For Immediate Release
Contact: Betsy Hart, 202-226-8555

HERSETH SANDLIN HELPS PASS FUNDING PACKAGE WITH NUMEROUS
SOUTH DAKOTA PRIORITIES

Washington, D.C., December 18, 2007 –The U.S. House of Representatives late last night passed a consolidated or “omnibus” appropriations bill that includes funding for numerous South Dakota priorities. The funding package, which passed with Rep. Herseth Sandlin’s support, combined 11 of the 12 appropriations bills that Congress must pass to fund government operations and agencies for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2008.

Several initiatives important to South Dakota received funding requested by Rep. Herseth Sandlin. These initiatives include:

$26,568,000 for the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System
$28,197,000 for the construction and $9,374,000 for the operation and maintenance of the Mni Wiconi Rural Water System
$2,500,000 to support the National Children’s Study at South Dakota State University
$245,000 for facility construction and buildout of The Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place in Fort Pierre
$141,000 to provide treatment of methamphetamine addiction at Prairie View Prevention Services in Sioux Falls
$497,000 for feedstock conversion for Sun Grant biofuels project at SDSU
$196,000 for rail improvements in the city of Pierre
$16,600,000 for construction of a Base Civil Engineer Administrative Facility at Ellsworth AFB and $7,900,000 a Base Civil Engineer Maintenance Complex at the Air National Guard Base in Sioux Falls
$282,000 for small business development at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
$335,043 for cataloging, preparing and archiving documents at The McGovern Library at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell.

Rep. Herseth Sandlin said, “The resources included in this bill provide funding for projects that are critical to South Dakota’s future. These investments will help develop necessary infrastructure, keep our communities and families safe, grow our rural economy and encourage innovation and development. I’m proud to have played a role in advocating for these proposals over the past year, and I am hopeful that the bill will soon head to the President’s desk for his signature.”

The omnibus combined the appropriations bills that authorize funding for initiatives under the jurisdiction of the following 11 Appropriations Subcommittees: Agriculture; Commerce, Justice and Science; Energy and Water; Financial Services; Interior and Environment; Labor, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services and Education; Legislative Branch; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; State and Foreign Operations and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. The bill funding Defense operations has already passed as an individual piece of legislation.

A comprehensive list of South Dakota projects funded in the omnibus is included below.

Agriculture

$1,205,000 - Biomass Crop Production for Sun Grant – South Dakota State University

$497,000 - Feedstock Conversion for Sun Grant – South Dakota State University

$322,725 - Missouri River Sedimentation Study – Natural Resource Conservation Service in South Dakota, Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska

$223,425 - Crop Integration and Production – South Dakota State University (with North Dakota State University and the University of Nebraska)

$265,131 - Seed Technology Development – South Dakota State University

$465,717 - Ruminant Nutrition Consortium – South Dakota State University (with Montana State University, North Dakota State University and University of Wyoming)

$1,713,000- Red River Valley Ag Research Center – Cereal Crops and Sunflower Research

$427,000- International Arid Lands Consortium – North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory (NCARL)

$553,101 - Animal Damage Control – South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks

$282,012 - Blackbird Sunflower Damage Control in the Northern Plains – US Department of Agriculture

Commerce-Justice-Science

$141,000-Prairie View Preventions Services-Methamphetamine Awareness and Prevention

$94,000 - SD Children’s Home Society -- Family Support Services, Forensic Interviewing Services

$893,000 - Oglala Sioux Tribe – Criminal Justice System

$564,000 – Oglala Sioux Tribe Community Policing

$89,300 - A Child is Missing of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for A Child Is Missing – South Dakota Initiative

$94,000- Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Department Meth Reduction Program

$183,300 - Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe - Technology upgrades to the 911 system

$446,500 - Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe – Criminal Justice System

$446,500 - Standing Rock Sioux Tribe – Criminal Justice System

$446,500 - Rosebud Sioux Tribe – Criminal Justice System

$446,500 - Crow Creek Sioux Tribe – Criminal Justice System

$94,000-Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Department of Justice

$178,600 - Oglala Sioux Tribe – Technology upgrades to the 911 system

$156,275 -- South Dakota Healthy Communities, Healthy Youth Initiative

$223,250- St. Joseph’s Indian School (Chamberlain) – Expansion of Residential Facilities and Programs

Energy and Water Development

$26,568,000-Lewis and Clark Regional Water System

$28,197,000-Mni Wiconi Rural Water System – Construction

$9,374,000 – Mni Wiconi Rural Water System – Operations and Maintenance

$2,952,000-Perkins County Rural Water System

$3,936,000- Sun Grant Initiative – South Dakota State University

$344,000-Watertown Flood Control Investigation

$1,873,000 – Big Sioux River Levee Improvements, Sioux Falls

$93,000 - Missouri River Restoration in South Dakota

$1,082,000-South Dakota Catalyst Group

$3,936,000-Cheyenne River and Lower Brule Sioux Tribes

$364,000-James River Sedimentation Investigation

$5,203,000-Gavin’s Point Dam, Lewis and Clark Lake

$224,000-Big Stone Lake, Whitestone River

$454,000- Missouri River National Recreation Area

$219,000-Cold Brook Lake Development and Maintenance

$161,000-Cottonwood Springs Lake Development and Maintenance

$7,000,000-Fort Randall Dam and Lake Francis Case Maintenance

$527,000-Lake Traverse Development and Maintenance

$139,000-Missouri River Mainenance-Ft. Peck Montana to Gavin’s Point South Dakota

$9,229,000-Oahe Dam and Lake Oahe Maintenance

Financial Services and General Government

$282,000 - SD School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City – Black Hills Nanoscale Minerals Institute (BH-NMI) Operations

$500,000 - N2TEC Institute, Rapid City – High Performance Regions Initiative

Interior and Environment

$590,640 – State and Tribal Assistance Grant for source water protection

$1,000,000-Black Hills National Forest land acquisition

$1,158,000-Wind Cave National Park Construction Funds

$492,200 - Box Elder – Construct New Well and Reservoir

$246,100 - Dell Rapids – Restore the Grand Opera House

$273,650-Dakota Tallgrass Prairie Wildlife Management Area

Labor-HHS-Education

$2,500,000-South Dakota State University provided for the National Children’s Study

$286,899 – Children’s Home Society for services related to domestic violence, child abuse and neglect

$325,217 - Community Health Center of the Black Hills (CHCBH)

$766,373 - Rosebud Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center

$335,043- George and Eleanor McGovern Library, Dakota Wesleyan University

$1,915,934 - USD School of Medicine construction

$95,305 - University Center – Graduate Education and Applied Research Center

$143,449 - Youth and Family Services in Rapid City.

$143,449 - Rosebud Sioux Tribe Piya Mani Otipito reduce suicide, delinquency, and substance abuse among Native American youth on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.

$191,593 - Martin Addiction Recovery Center (MARC)

$191,593 - Delta Dental of South Dakota (DDSD)

$191,593 - Rosebud Inter-facility Transport

$383,187 - Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Meth Prevention Program

$383,187 - Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chemical Prevention Program

$95,305 - South Dakota Symphony and Black Hills Symphony

$95,305 - West River Foundation for the Midwest Alliance for Professional Learning and Leadership (MAPLE)

$118,886 - South Dakota State University Obesity Research Group on children

$143,449 - Glory House Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment Center

$335,043 - South Dakota State University Biomaterials Research

$646,505 - Avera Research Institute and partners for Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network

Military Construction-VA

$16,600,000 million - Base Civil Engineer Administrative Facility-Ellsworth Air Force Base

$7,900,000 million - Base Civil Engineer Maintenance Complex-Air National Guard Base in Sioux Falls

$3,730,000 million - Joint Armed Forces Reserve Center

$900,000 - South Dakota National Guard – Rapid City Joint Forces Headquarters

State, Foreign Operations

Support language for South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to expand science, technology, and engineering exchanges with Mongolia.

Transportation-HUD

$245,000 - Wakpa Sica Reconciliation Place for facility construction and buildout

$196,000- Pierre Rail Grade Crossing and Improvements

$2,263,800 - Department of Transportation for SD11 and SD 42 in Sioux Falls, S.D.

$1,658,160 - BIA Route 14 for Oglala Sioux Tribe

$1,960,000 - Kenel Road Rehabilitation and Resurfacing Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

$382,000 - South Dakota School of Mines and Technology “Connector Road”

$196,000 - Four Bands Community Fund, Eagle Butte – Re-capitalize revolving loan fund

$196,000 - City of Spearfish -- Industrial Park Infrastructure

$196,000 - City of Aberdeen – Civic Arena Renovation

$196,000 - South Dakota State Fair Foundation, Huron – Upgrade Open Class Beef Complex and Hippodrome

$196,000 - City of Watertown – Uptown Watertown Revitalization, Phase IV

$196,000 - Cheyenne River Youth Project, Eagle Butte -- Teen Center Expansion

$548,800 - SD Children’s Home Society, Sioux Falls – Van Demark House and Loving School expansion

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Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin serves South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate Democrats committed to fiscal discipline and strong national security, and is co-chair of the Rural Working Group, which is dedicated to raising the profile of issues important to rural America. She also serves on three committees vital to South Dakota’s interests: Agriculture, Veterans’ Affairs and Natural Resources. In the 110th Congress, Rep. Herseth Sandlin was one of only 15 members appointed to serve on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.