Radiation Exposure Compensation Act $27.8 million

RECA funds compensate victims of radiation exposure resulting from nuclear testing

in Nevada during the 1950s and 60s. The $27.8 million, fully funds the shortfall

in the program for the year and ensures that funds are available to pay downwiders’

claims.

Anti-meth efforts $750,000

This funding will help Box Elder, Rich, Wasatch, Tooele, and Juab counties purchase

video monitors, mobile cameras, and other equipment for surveillance vehicles

to locate clandestine methamphetamine labs.

Ongoing site preparation for new museum $5 million

Association of Utah Community Health (AUCH) $800,000

AUCH is a 501(c)(3) private non-profit membership alliance of Community-Based

Health Centers that provide high-quality, family-oriented, affordable, and community-sensitive

primary health care. These medical services are accessible to low-income and

uninsured populations.

Highly Qualified Teachers in Rural Areas $400,000

Many of Utah's rural districts face difficulties meeting No Child Left Behind

requirements. This project will assist Utah’s rural teachers who teach

three or more subject areas to obtain additional training for certification

purposes by utilizing distance education infrastructure in the state.

Utah Shakespearean Festival (USF) Elizabethan Theater, Cedar City $1 million

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Federal Highway Administration

Message boards in canyons, etc. for accident/traffic notifications $750,000

and Integration, statewide - collects data at ports of entry/weigh stations $500,000

Funds will be used to finish the Environmental Impact Statement for the project.

The rail line, which will begin at Sigur in Sevier County and terminate at Levan

in Juab County, will be used primarily for the shipment of commodities, such

as coal, salt and turkey feed. This will help eliminate the use of heavy coal

trucks along State Route 89.

The funds will be used for highway research, particularly on bridges and other

highway structures. Its research played an important role in the I-15 reconstruction

along the Wasatch Front.

Federal Transit Administration

Federal Aviation Administration

Funds will be used for ongoing improvements, as part of an earlier agreement

between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Salt Lake International

Airport.

$2 million for Carbon County Airport and $2 million for Tooele Airport

ILS is a standard system used by airports to allow pilots to land during inclement

weather. This system will greatly expand airport operations and capabilities.

Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies

EQIP administers cost-share conservation projects, such as drought-relief and

water quality improvement projects, for Utah farmers and ranchers. Participation

is voluntary, but it gives farmers and ranchers an opportunity to implement

positive management practices and address threats to soil, water, air and other

related resources on their land.

Funds will continue to assist the Center’s research and education efforts

to address growth-related issues in Utah, such as water supply, public open

space and a shrinking resource base for native plants, wildlife, and wetlands.

The initiative will research the impact drought has on the agricultural water

supply and study ways to increase water availability.

Center in Millville, Utah $1.29 million

Funds will continue to research large predators in Utah and the Intermountain

West and their effects on the livestock industry.

Funds will continue to support the air quality program, which develops and evaluates

the effectiveness of agricultural emissions measurement procedures and determines

the environmental benefits of reduced emissions.

Funds will support continued research on poisonous plant effects on the agricultural

industry, particularly range livestock. Work at the lab will also help address

homeland security concerns through plant research relating to bio-terrorism.

Research will define, expand, and discover how organisms interact with their

environment by extracting information from existing genome sequences in plants,

animals, and microbes.

Funds will support existing Institute programs, examine wildlife disease threats,

and better address wildlife economics. The Institute is a cooperative relationship

with Mississippi State University.

Funds will continue research on grasses that use less water, use water more

efficiently, and perform well when irrigated with poor quality water.

Funds continue support of the USDA’s Forage and Range Research Laboratory

in Logan and USU’s Utah Agricultural Experiment Station partnership, which

uses plant genetic research to address drought and conservation issues.

Funds will be used for a research project developed by the USU Colleges of Natural

Resources, Engineering, and Agriculture, private landowners, and state and federal

agencies that investigates how vegetation manipulation impacts watershed processes.

Pilot Project (AFO) $300,000

Continues funding for a non-regulatory program that protects water from CAFO/AFO

discharge.

Research focuses on the integration of improved forage species and pastures

that will result in a livestock production system that helps maintain the livestock

industry.

Lab conducts pollen research, which can help farmers with higher crop yields.

Funds will be used to continue necessary improvements to the canal. The improvements

will enhance the water supply by improving water efficiency and conservation.

Funds will address the concern about the number of deer and elk in different

regions of the U.S., including Utah, testing positive for CWD.

Funding will address the rising concern about the avian influenza outbreak.

This disease is a serious threat to the nation’s turkey industry, including

Utah’s turkey producers.

Funds are administered through Natural Resources Conservation Service and will

be used to initiate the following projects: High Line Canal, Wayne County; Jensen

Park Project, Syracuse; Utah Watershed Coordinators Council; and upon completion

of the Minersville water management plan, the balance is available to initiate

work on the Spanish Fork Reclamation Project and the American Fork Canyon Watershed

Restoration Project.

Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies

Funding will be used to help develop a forensic science program at UVSC, which

will be the first for any higher education institution in Utah or any contiguous

state, with the exception of Colorado.

This project has provided research-based anti-violence programs in three of

the highest-risk junior high schools and their feeder elementary schools. This

funding will enable Granite School District to disseminate their feedback through

the district and follow up with additional evaluations of the project’s

effectiveness.

Funding will help rural police departments upgrade technology needs, including

small police departments that have not had the funds to upgrade their technology.

This funding will help support the county’s drug enforcement program,

which includes weekly court hearings and tracking for periods of at least 12

months, random and extensive drug testing, and immediate rewards or consequences

for progress or setbacks.

Funding will be used to help the Division of Juvenile Justice Services improve

program quality processes by developing data collection processes and customized

reports.

Funds awarded for this program will provide for two new work programs that provide

ways delinquent youth can earn and pay restitution. One of the work programs,

called Strawberry Work Camp, is a residential program for females that gives

them the opportunity to learn positive life skills in an environment away from

their home communities. The other work program, in Southern Utah, is a daytime

work program for males and females that also gives the opportunity for delinquent

youth to earn restitution and custody release.

Funds will be used to obtain the necessary equipment and tools for crime scene

prevention and analysis, including an evidence storage building which includes

a processing office, evidence processing area and evidence storage area. The

funding would provide the equipment and technology necessary to create a secure,

uncontaminated environment for handling crime scene evidence. The funding would

also allow for procurement of necessary upgraded and vital supplies, such as

tyvek suits, drug field kits, and tire tread print kits for crime scene collection

and analysis vehicles.

Energy and Water Development

Provides for critical water needs in central Utah counties and meets the obligations

of the Cental Utah Project Completion Act. Includes $15.5 million for fish,

wildlife, recreation, mitigation, and conservation.

Program helps rural Utah meet water-related infrastructure needs.

Continues the ongoing feasibility study for the importation of water to the

Snyderville Basin and Park City, Utah.

overall / $5 million, approximately for U of U

Cooperative program dedicated to providing leading edge computational modeling

and simulation capabilities to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program, charged

with maintaining the safety and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons

in the absence of underground nuclear testing. The University of Utah generally

receives approximately $5 million through this partnership.

Continues environmental work, site remediation and study at uranium mill tailings

site.

Funds will support research on economic development of wind power and other

renewable energy sources, develop marketing resources, disseminate research

findings and practical applications, and engage in outreach to rural users.

Funds will be used to continue operation, maintenance, and management of Weber

Basin, Hyrum, Newton, Moon Lake, Provo River, Scofield, Ogden River, and Strawberry

Valley water projects.

Funds will be used to continue maintenance of Army Corp projects in Utah.

Interior and Related Agencies

Established in 1976, PILT was designed to compensate counties whose tax base

is limited because of federal land ownership within their boundaries. As Utah

is 70 percent federally owned, its counties are unable to collect taxes from

these lands. Utah will receive approximately $19 million, of the $230 million

nationwide, to be distributed among the state’s 29 counties.

The funding will provide for the purchase of the Murray Farm property in Wellsville

to be added to the BST.

Funds will support an aggressive initiative to restore habitat and increase

sage grouse populations across affected western states.

Funds will be used for the development of campgrounds, trail development, and

a staging area for OHV and equestrian access to public lands.

The project is a partnership between Utah Valley State College and Capitol Reef

National Park.

This conservation easement will protect 800 acres located in a high development

area in the East Canyon area near Park City, Utah. Adjacent and nearby Forest

Legacy Projects total over 10,000 acres. The Pony Express Route, Donner-Reed

Trail, California Overland Stage Route, and the Mormon Pioneer Trail cross this

historically significant parcel of land.

Near the border of Canyonlands National Park, the addition of this 60-unit campground

will help address the overflow from the park, while preventing degradation on

the public lands.

The Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry is one of the preeminent active dinosaur

quarries in the world, containing over 12,000 artifacts. This project will demolish

two quarry buildings and replace them with one large building to better protect

and store the specimens.

Continued land acquisition is part of a 10-year project in which 12,000 acres

of private land on the North Slope of the High Unitas has been acquired and

added to the National Forest System, thereby protecting this acreage from development.

Funding will support activities such as the processing of applications and environmental

documentation necessary for production.

Restores funding to the budget for the program, which is essential to recover

several endangered fish and to allow continued water development.

Restores staff position used to assist Washington and Iron Counties with desert

tortoise and prairie dog recovery efforts.

Public sanitation facilities will be installed at these recreation sites where

no facilities were previously available.

Funds will be used to improve a road to enhance user safety, as well as to construct

defined campground and sanitation facilities in this high-use area.

Funds will be used for a biomass pilot program, administered by the Utah Rural

Development Council, which will help reduce the hazardous fuel buildup in Utah’s

forests by making biomass more economical to remove.

Funding will be used for the state of Utah’s continued compilation of

the Geographic Information System and Cadastral mapping used for land-use planning

activities.

Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education

This project, in conjunction with the state Principals Literacy Institute, will

train teachers at individual schools to facilitate the delivery of research-based

reading instruction as well as provide materials to rural schools, many of which

are very isolated in the state.

Federal funds will support a three-part program that creates a nursing center

of excellence for rural nursing care, develops a telenursing program, and develops

a direct-learning curriculum to provide accredited nursing training and education

to entry-level nursing home employees and other health care workers.

Federal funds will help address three areas of the initiative: bachelor's completion

programs for paraprofessionals; teacher certification programs for uncertified

teachers and second-career professionals; graduate endorsements and master's

degrees in Learning and Technology, Math, Science, Special Education, and English

Language Learning for existing teachers, allowing them to be certified as teachers.

The Caring Foundation's main objective is to improve the oral health of uninsured

Utah families who are not eligible for government assistance but cannot afford

private dental insurance. This federal funding will allow the Foundation to

provide free insurance to many additional working families in need of temporary

assistance.

The funds will be used to support three programs at The Leonardo, including

children classes in photography, sculpture, painting, dance, and other artistic

media; the Center for Documentary Arts, offering Utah residents and visitors

an opportunity to participate in the documentation of their heritage; and the

Utah Science Center, featuring interactive displays, designed by University

of Utah volunteers, for youth and families.

Funds will be used to purchase hardware, software and necessary equipment for

distance learning program, including academic and literary programs, and help

connect students with coursework and library resources.

NCDAE will use federal funds to develop and implement a blue ribbon panel that

will combine priorities into best practices, research priorities, and important

dissemination points, so that a national implementation plan can be developed

and launched. Funding will also be used to develop and operate a national resource

dissemination center.

Funds will be used to support a partnership between five school districts in

the Wasatch Front and Brigham Young University to improve the literacy performance

of low achieving students. The program, using 100 teachers and 2300 students,

will be evaluated using stringent research methods to ensure that low achieving

students will learn to read well.

IHC is working to develop a pilot program to provide deaf patients with remote

interpreting services. Federal support for this pilot study in Utah will help

enable the development of a system on a nationwide basis that will ultimately

provide better health care opportunities for deaf patients.

Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies

This community center will serve primarily as a senior citizen center and will

also provide a location for other public and private functions. Wayne County

is home to less than 3,000 people, and has a very limited tax base to generate

funds for this type of project. The community center will help the county raise

funds when it is rented for private events.

This sandstone building was completed in 1867, and was originally used as a

religious meetinghouse in West Jordan. It is currently used by the Daughters

of Utah Pioneers and various senior groups, however it is open for public use

and serves the entire city. The National Park Service listed it on the National

Register of Historic Places on April 14, 1995, and it is the only recognized

historic structure in the city of West Jordan. These funds will help the city

restore the building to its original condition. The city has received a grant

from the Eccles Foundation to aid in the renovation.

Built in 1903, this building offered dance and ballroom instruction in Brigham

City throughout the first part of the 20th century. Brigham City purchased the

building in order to preserve its historical significance. Brigham City has

suffered from the migration of economic activity from downtown neighborhoods

to more developed areas of the city. This building is located in one of the

neighborhoods that have faced economic slowdown and the city expects that renovation

of this building will lead to economic growth in the area.

Park renovation and revitalization.

The Calibration Center at SDL is one of the preeminent facilities in the country

for calibrating infrared and cryogenically cooled detection devices primarily

used in NASA satellites, DoD systems and by astronomers.

This center collects, archives, processes and disseminates satellite imagery

– made accessible to participating state and federal land management agencies.

Continued monitoring and assessment activities related to freshwater ecosystems.

A partner in the governor’s watershed initiative, its purpose is to assess

and protect source waters in the Utah watershed area.

$300,000 STRONGER brings together state regulatory agencies and interests from

industry and environmental community to cooperatively address regulatory concerns.

-- City of Holladay, Wayman Storm Drain Project, $300,000

-- Magna Water Company and Improvement District, perchlorate & arsenic

treatment plant, $500,000

-- Logan, $400,000

-- Park City, Judge and Spiro Tunnel treatment plant, $400,000

-- Riverton, $400,000

-- Orem, $400,000

-- Sandy, drinking water and storm and water infrastructure improvements,

$1million

-- Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, Groundwater Extraction and

Treatment Remedial Project, $100,000

Consortium of universities in the U.S. and Mexico that jointly conduct environmental

research along the U.S.-Mexico border. The University of Utah is a longtime

participant in this program and will receive a portion of these funds.