Agriculture

Project Name: CSU Agricultural Research Initiative (ARI)

Address: CSU, Fresno Foundation, 4910 North Chestnut Ave, Fresno CA 93726

Website: http://www.csufresno.edu/grants/staff/index.shtml

Project Description: The CSU's ARI leverages state, federal and industry resources to support the immediate and ongoing need for quality applied agricultural and environmental research, development, education, outreach, and technology transfer activities for the benefit of the nation's farmers, ranchers, and consumers. ($7 million)

Project Name: Cal County Pest Detection Import Inspection Program

Address: California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association, 142 Garden Highway, Yuba City, CA 95991

Website: http://www.cacasa.org/

Project Description: The Import Inspection element of the California County Pest Detection Augmentation Program is a statewide program operated by county agriculture commissioners to inspect incoming plant material at points of entry in California to prevent the establishment of serious agricultural and environmental invasive pests and diseases. ($1.65 million)

Project Name: Cal County Pest Detection Augmentation Program

Address: California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association, 142 Garden Highway, Yuba City, CA 95991

Website: http://www.cacasa.org/

Project Description: The California County Pest Detection Program is maintained as a statewide network of insect traps and other detection tools to serve as an early warning system against serious agricultural pests. Traps are placed in high risk areas of the counties throughout the state near host trees and plants particular attractive to these pests. The recent funding for this program has allowed the California Agricultural Commissioners to increase the number of pest traps by 5002, covering an additional 612 square miles. These additional traps resulted in the detection of 82 total species of pests including Peach Fruit Fly, Oriental Fruit Fly, Melon Fruit Fly, Mexican Fruit Fly and Guava Fruit Fly. ($1.35 million)

Labor, HHS, Education

Grantee: Clinica Sierra Vista

Address: 1430 Truxtun Avenue, #400, Bakersfield, CA 93301

Website: http://www.clinicasierravista.org/home.php

Project Description: The Elm Street Community Health Center, which is part of Clinica Sierra Vista, 2790 South Elm, Fresno, California, opened in 1987. It is located in a medically underserved area (30) in Congressional District20.  In 2007, 11,466 patients generated 39,123 patient visits with medical, behavioral health, and dental clinicians at Elm CHC. Over 85% of the 11,466 individual patients are Latinos; 75% live on incomes at or below 100% of the Federal Poverty Line; 54% are agricultural workers; 61% are females and 25% are children under 19 years.  The Elm CHC design is inefficient, obstructing patient care flow and creating safety concerns. ($1 million)

Grantee: Bakersfield Memorial Hospital

Address: 420 34^th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301

Website: http://www.bakersfieldmemorial.org/index.htm

Project Description: Bakersfield Memorial Hospital requests $750,000 for construction, renovation, and equipment for their emergency room.  The Emergency Department needs to be expanded to meet the needs of the community.  As Kern County's population grows and technology continues to evolve, there is an ever increasing demand for healthcare services. This year area residents will make over 30,000 such visits to Bakersfield Memorial Hospital's Emergency Department. ($750,000)

Grantee: Springboard for Improving Schools

Address: 181 Fremont Street, 2^nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105

Website: http://www.springboardschools.org/index.html

Project Description: Springboard's Central Valley Leadership Network is a program that brings together educators specifically from small, rural districts in the 20th and 21st Congressional Districts to help them narrow the achievement gap by creating a new level of focus, intensity, and coherence in the work toward this goal at all levels of the educational system. Springboard's emphasis on building leadership and organizational capacity aligns well with the overall goal of the Fund for the Improvement of Education to support systemic education reform that will increase student achievement.  ($250,000)

Grantee: Center for Civic Education

Address: 5145 Douglas Fir Road, Calabasas, CA 91302

Website: http://www.civiced.org/index.php

Project Description: The Education for Democracy Act effectively promote among students a profound understanding of and commitment to the fundamental values and principles of American constitutional democracy as expressed in such seminal documents as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address. They also promote students' capacities to participate competently and responsibility in the political life of their communities and the nation.  Through the We the People programs every congressional district receives free sets of specialized textbooks for their schools at the upper elementary, middle and high school levels.  Teachers benefit from professional development seminars and institutes to improve their content knowledge and teaching methods. A network of dedicated volunteers administers each program locally, adapting the program to their local needs and leveraging the federal funding with additional amounts at the state and local level in support of the program. ($35 million, one year funding)

Grantee: Reach Out and Read National Center

Address: 56 Roland Street, Boston, MA 02129

Website: http://www.reachoutandread.org/

Project Description: Reach Out and Read is a national program that promotes literacy and language development in infants and young children, targeting disadvantage and poor children and families. Through fifteen years of peer-reviewed and published research, an extensive body of documentation now clearly demonstrates the importance of promoting early language and literacy skills so that children have the essential reading skills to begin school successfully. Yet today, a large number of children do not receive the necessary support and assistance to develop these skills and begin kindergarten read to learn. ($10 million)

Grantee: Reading is Fundamental 

Address: 1825 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20000

Website: http://www.rif.org/

Project Description: Reading is Fundamental enhances child literacy by providing millions of underserved children with free books for personal ownership and reading encouragement from more than 18,000 locations throughout all fifty states.  Funding would be used for purposes authorized in Section 5451 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. ($28 million)

Commerce, Justice and Science

Project: Interoperable Emergency Communications System

Address: County of Kings, 1400 West Lacey Blvd. Hanford, CA 93230

Website: http://www.countyofkings.com/

Project Description: The current Kings County emergency radio infrastructure does not provide communications coverage for the entire county, and additional communications towers are needed to eliminate gaps in transmissions.  The funding requested for the Interoperable Emergency Communications System will provide the additional technological and infrastructure equipment that is needed to complete the local network. ($3 million)

Project: Regional Data Interoperability

Address: County of Fresno, 2281 Tulare Street, Fresno, CA 93721

Website: http://www.co.fresno.ca.us/

Project Description: The County’s goal is to provide true interoperable communication capabilities between law enforcement, emergency medical services and fire protection serving Fresno County and the region by using an intelligent voice and data communication network.  This project includes the completion of the final segments of a fiber based, secure, self healing redundant path network.  The final segments support the recent installation of a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) with full redundant capability from a remote secondary location, provide full loop fiber connection of all major police, fire and emergency services applications and dispatch locations, and provide redundancy for the microwave based voice radio network.  Beyond satisfying the needs for cross access to current applications and failover, this network becomes the freeway for Interoperability Data Exchange efforts and information sharing which touches more than 47 first responders in the region.  Finally, the distribution of police video from static, mobile and airborne sources becomes possible through this network.  ($3.5 million)

Project: Kings County Narcotic and Gang Task Force

Address: City of Corcoran, 832 Whitley Ave, Corcoran, CA 93212

Website: http://www.cityofcorcoran.com/

Project Description: :  This funding will allow Corcoran, Lemoore, Hanford Police Departments and the Kings County Sheriff's Department to complete the expansion of the Kings County Gang & Narcotics Task Force.  Each agency will add an additional Investigator to both Task Force's which will nearly double the personnel.  Limited equipment purchases will be made as well.

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development

Project: Highway 269 Bridge Phased Improvements

Address: Council of Fresno County Governments, 2035 Tulare Street, Ste. 201, Fresno, CA 93721

Website: http://www.fresnocog.org/

Project Description: This project consists of building a 500-foot bridge across the Arroyo Pasajero Creek on Highway 269 between SR 198 and Huron to alleviate severe economic disruption to the Huron area when Arroyo Pasajero Creek floods .  ($1.5 million)

Project: Veterans Boulevard and SR-99 Interchange

Address: City of Fresno, 2600 Fresno Street, Fresno, CA 93721

Website: http://www.fresno.gov/default.htm

Project Description: Funding would go toward the Project Approval Report, environmental document and preliminary right-of-way for the development of the Veterans Boulevard freeway interchange at State Route 99.  The interchange is a critical element to alleviate congestion at the Shaw Ave/SR-99 and the Herndon Ave/SR-99 interchanges.  ($3 million)

Project: State Route 180 East

Address: Council of Fresno County Governments, 2035 Tulare Street, Ste. 201, Fresno, CA 93721

Website: http://www.fresnocog.org/

Project Description: Completion of construction of the segment of SR 180 East from Temperance Ave. to Academy Ave. will provide improved access to the smaller cities in southeast Fresno County.  It will also provide the much needed East-West route extensions that will ultimately provide connection to Interstate 5.  ($3 million)

Interior and Environment

Project: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Reduction Program

Address: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, 1990 East Gettysburg Ave, Fresno, CA 93726

Website: http://www.valleyair.org/

Project Description: The San Joaquin Valley has some of the poorest air quality in the country. The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District has created a plan to meet national standards by 2023. The plan relies on a variety of emissions reductions strategies, including incentive programs. The incentive program that would be funded by this request would reduce mobile and agricultural source pollution.  ($10 million)

Energy and Water

Project Name: Semitropic Water Storage District – Phase II Groundwater Banking

Address: 1101 Central Avenue, Wasco, CA 93280

Website: http://www.semitropic.com/

Project Description: Central Valley Project, Friant Division, CA: Phase II of Semitropic's Groundwater Storage Project will provide an additional 650,000 acre-feet of water storage (to a maximum of 1.65 million acre-feet) and a minimum 200,000 AF/Yr groundwater storage facility cited in the supporting documents of CALFED Record of Decision. ($5 million)

Project Name: San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement

Address: Bureau of Reclamation, 1849 “C” Street, NW, Washington, DC 20240

Website: http://www.usbr.gov/

Project Description: Under the terms of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement, the Bureau of Reclamation is required to undertake certain activities, studies, and projects between 2011-2013. The requested funding would support the required activities, which include monitoring interim flow releases, fisheries management planning and site specific planning, design and engineering in three locations for Phase 1 projects including the Mendota bypass and Reach 2B expansion, as well as continued planning and investigation of Water Management Goal activities, including capacity restoration work on the Friant-Kern and Madera Canals. ($35 million)

Project Name: Upper San Joaquin River Basin Study

Address: Bureau of Reclamation, 1849 “C” Street, NW, Washington, DC 20240

Website: http://www.usbr.gov/

Project Description: The Upper San Joaquin River Storage Investigation is being conducted by the Bureau of Reclamation and the State of California to further the water supply goals outlined in the CALFED Record of Decision (ROD).  Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004, December 1, 2003; and P.L. 108-361, CALFED Bay-Delta Authorization Act, October, 2004 ($3 million)

Project Name: Isabella Lake, CA

Address: Army Corps of Engineers, 1325 “J” Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

Website: http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/

Project Description: Support continued field work (such as trenching to characterize the Kern Canyon Fault); studies (including seismic, structural and environmental assessments and economic evaluations to assess risk); and preliminary design work to determine the steps that are needed to restore Isabella Dam to its previous condition and capacity. ($8 million)