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Earmark Requests FY24

I have requested the following Appropriations earmarks:

Anniston Army Depot Component Rebuild Shop

$81,289,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification
Armed Services Required Documents

Request Explanation: This request will enable the Anniston Army Depot to continue its implementation of LEAN manufacturing processes that improve efficiency, provide the expanded capability to support their Army assigned Center of Industrial Technical Excellence (CITE).

 

Anniston Army Depot Access Control Point

$55,389,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification
Armed Services Required Documents

Request Explanation: This request will provide Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) with an efficient Main Gate and Entry Control Facilities (ECF). The main gate and entrance control facilities should include an Access Control Point (ACP), Commercial Vehicle Inspection Facility (CVIF), Visitor Control Center (VCC), and roadway infrastructure necessary to provide efficient incoming and outgoing flow from ANAD. Project also includes all necessary utility services and connections, fire protection, parking areas, information systems, signage, site improvements, and demolition of currently utilized facilities that are replaced as part of the project.

 

Anniston Army Depot Vehicle Paint Shop 

$28,979,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification
Armed Services Required Documents

Request Explanation: This request will help the Anniston Army Depot build a new paint facility, which is required to meet mission requirements including the new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) requirements for M777 and M109 while improving overall efficiencies of combat vehicle production by improving vehicle process flow. Current painting operations do not allow for the longer ERCA cannon length when assembled on the Paladin M109 and the M777. This new facility will support the larger sized booths as required by the ERCA dimensions, allowing adequate space for full turning rotation and vehicle length of assembled combat vehicles placed inside the proposed paint, sanding, and drying booths. 

 

Realignment of State Road 22

$11,099,750.36

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This would complete a longstanding project in Alabama's Third Congressional District that will connect State Road 22 to Highway 431, a well-traveled road in East Alabama.

 

Auburn University Regional Airport Air Traffic Control Tower

$7,200,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request would help build a contract air traffic control tower at Auburn University Regional Airport. The Auburn University Regional Airport was accepted as a candidate for inclusion in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Federal Contract Tower Program in October 2022. With this acceptance, the airport has a five-year deadline to complete construction of a tower. Upon completion, labor costs for contract air traffic controllers at the tower would then be 100% paid for by the FAA. Of the total project cost of $8 million, $710,000 is estimated for project design, including a required control tower siting study and the design of the tower structure. The remaining request balance of $7.29 million is for construction of the structure and installation of required FAA equipment. The CPF funding request of $7.2 million will be combined with $800,000 in state and local funds to meet cost-share requirements.

 

Auburn Groundwater Well No. 3 Improvement 

$6,700,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request will fund design and construction of a new emergency backup generator system and a PFAS treatment system to treat groundwater from a well that produces 1.3 MGD to meet new regulations. 

 

Chattahoochee Valley Water Supply District WTP Raw Water Intake

$4,330,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request will provide funds to Chattahoochee Valley Water Supply District (CVWSD,) which is in urgent need of constructing a new raw water intake and river pumping system. 

 

Lee County Sheriff Communications System Upgrade 

$3,868,907.20

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request will upgrade Lee County Sheriff's radio system to P-25 compliant digital platforms from the 148/172 Mhz frequency spectrum in analog operation.

 

Alabama Rural Telehealth Initiative 

$3,000,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request would fund the Alabama Rural Telehealth Initiative which will significantly expand telemedicine infrastructure and training in rural and underserved areas throughout the state of Alabama, extending healthcare access to medically underserved populations, enhancing disaster preparedness, and improving clinical outcomes for patients with chronic health conditions. The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) in Auburn, Alabama will leverage an existing statewide “hub and spoke” healthcare education and clinical practice network of 15 core teaching facilities including affiliated urban academic teaching hospitals, rural healthcare providers, and community-based teaching hospitals, as well as multiple other educational affiliates and graduate medical education (GME) partners, to roll out the infrastructure, education, and training experiences necessary to prepare medical providers in Alabama to deploy telemedicine solutions in a rapidly changing healthcare environment. 

 

Creation of a Space Manufacturing Center at Auburn University

$3,000,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request and these funds will help Auburn University advance in-space additive manufacturing capabilities and develop a circular manufacturing ecosystem. Auburn would use funding to employ and develop new AM technologies that print parts and devices utilizing local resources. The mission's functional aspect will focus on printing a wide range of electronics and sensors for space missions.

 

Creation of an Additive Manufacturing Training and Innovation Lab at Jacksonville State University

$2,700,000.00 

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request would create an Additive Manufacturing Training and Innovation Lab at Jacksonville State University. 

 

Alabama State Emergency Operations Center

$1,000,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request is to upgrade and modernize the existing State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) in Clanton, Alabama. The SEOC is the centralized center for direction and control of all hazard disasters that require state coordination with various partners including other state agencies, federal, local, and private/non-profit entities. The current SEOC is centrally located within Alabama. The current operations floor is extremely dilapidated, outdated, and the physical space and current technology capabilities do not provide a functional space for unified operations that supports all 67 counties and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Annually, Alabama consistently has one of the highest numbers of declared disasters in the nation and numerous undeclared events. This funding would be solely used to upgrade the emergency operations floor not the administrative portions of the building.

 

Talladega Airport Runway Rehabilitation

$756,113.40

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request is requesting $756,113.40 (to be matched with $84,012.60 from the City) in Community Project Funding to rehabilitate FAA-approved High Intensity Runway Edge Lights (HIRL/LED) and LED-based guidance signs specific to the runway operations at the Talladega Municipal Airport. The project also includes new power cables for the runway lighting and guidance sign circuits.

 

Jacksonville State University Campus Security Improvements

$675,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request is for Campus Security Improvements at Jacksonville State University. As the university continues to grow and updates its infrastructure, there is a growing need for improved security capabilities across campus. JSU is in need of a camera security platform that can universally integrate the existing systems and allow for the growth of additional systems as part of the overall effort in increasing safety for students, faculty, staff, and guests. 

 

Macon County Wastewater Improvement

$500,000.00

Financial Disclosure Certification

Request Explanation: This request will fund a Macon County Wastewater development plan. In order to assess and identify the most effective option(s) for the provision of wastewater infrastructure service to Macon County, a wastewater development and implementation assessment and plan are necessary. These processes will identify and prioritize critical needs, assess collection and treatment options to determine cost­ effectiveness and feasibility, consider budgetary and financial constraints, and evaluate potential institutional arrangements with existing systems, among other applicable issues.

FY23 Appropriations earmarks can be found here.

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