June 21, 2007 02:10 AM UTC

Musgrave Joins Udall

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• by: John Galt

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

In keeping up her bi-partisan image Marilyn Musgrave joined Mark Udall in releasing all of the individual appropriation funding requests that she made this year.  These requests also known as ‘earmarks’ became headline fodder earlier this week when CNN broke a story on the subject.  Upon Musgrave’s addition of releasing the requests only 32 of 435 members have made their earmarks public thus far.  Kudos to both Udall and Musgrave for being transparent on their funding requests.  Regardless if you have an R or a D by your name this is good politics.

Here’s hoping the rest of the Colorado delegation does the same.

The full appropriation funding requests plus the link to the Coloradoan website which reported the earmarks is listed below.

http://www.coloradoa…

TRANSPORTATION

Colorado Dept of Transportation (CDOT) I-25 North of SH 66
$4,000,000

CDOT US 40 / US 287, Kit Carson
$4,000,000

CDOT I-70, Burlington
$4,000,000

Greeley-Weld County Airport Authority – Greeley-Weld County Airport – Air Traffic Control Tower
$6,000,000

Fort Collins / Loveland Airport Runway Rehabilitation
$3,000,000

Colorado Youth Outdoors Handicap Pathways for Education Center
$200,000

Harvest Farm Drug Rehabilitation Program
$1,000,000

North Range Behavioral Health Mental Health Services Outpatient Facility Construction
$2,000,000

CDOT US 287, Lamar Relief Route
$3,000,000

Northern Larimer County Health District Larimer County Acute Mental Health and Detoxification Facility
$1,000,000

CDOT I-76, Colorado’s NE Gateway
$4,000,000

AGRICULTURE

Colorado State University – Russian Wheat Aphid Resistance, Stress Tolerance, and Quality Enhancement of Wheat
$425,000

Colorado State University – Program of Economically Important Infectious Animal Diseases (PEIIAD)
$950,000

Central Colorado Water Conservancy District Northeast Colorado Surface Water/Groundwater Conservation
$1,000,000

Colorado Sugarbeet Growers Association CRIS Project: Nonchemical pest control and enhanced sugarbeet germplasm via traditional and molecular technologies
$300,000

Colorado Association of Wheat Growers USDA-ARS Central Great Plains Research Station at Akron, Colorado – Plant breeding for oilseeds, on-farm bio-diesel development, drought mitigation research in alternative dryland cropping systems (this is seeking an increase of $900,000 to the station)
$900,000

U.S. Canola Association National Sclerotinia Initiative
$2,000,000

National Barley Improvement Committee Regional Barley Gene Mapping Project
$700,000

Colorado State University National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium (NBCEC)
$1,800,000

American Veterinary Medical Association National Veterinary Medical Service Act
$1,000,000

National Onion Association – Onion Iris Yellow Spot Virus / Thrips Research Initiative
$1,500,000

Colorado State University Global Change/Ultraviolet Radiation
$2,425,000

Banner Health / Northern Colorado Medical Center Colorado, Wyoming, Western Nebraska and Western Kansas Telemedicine Infrastructure Upgrades
$1,000,000

Colorado Wool Growers Association USDA APHIS Wildlife Services Funding for Colorado
$711,455

National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance National Forage Research Program
$3,000,000

U.S. Canola Association National Canola Research Program (NCRP)
$850,000

ENERGY & WATER

Colorado State University Sustainable Biofuels Development Center
$1,000,000

Colorado Community Colleges Northern Hemisphere Pierre Auger Observatory
$5,000,000

National Sorghum Producers Sorghum to Ethanol Research
$1,000,000

Excel Energy Colorado IGCC Power Plant CO2 Sequestration
$3,000,000

Colorado State University Smart Grid Simulation Laboratory
$750,000

PureVision Technology Biotechnology Process to Manufacture Ethanol
$3,750,000

COMMERCE – STATE DEPT. – JUSTICE

Eastern Colorado Plains Drug Task Force
$350,000

Weld County District Attorney Weld County Gang Task Force
$250,000

Larimer County Sheriff’s Department Specialized Prosecution Unit and Digital Recording Equipment
$275,000

SHARE, Inc. Morgan County Domestic Violence Program
$200,000

Crossroads Safehouse Advocacy for Domestic Violence Survivors $60,720

INTERIOR DEPT.

Town of Eckley – Town of Eckley Water Project
$150,000

Central Colorado Water Conservation District NE CO Surface Water/Groundwater Conservation Program
$1,000,000

Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District Arkansas Valley Conduit
$675,000

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute – CSU Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
$1,700,000

University of Colorado Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative: Energy Transformation and Innovation
$1,500,000

LABOR DEPT. – HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

UNC National Center for Nursing Education
$2,363,450

CureSearch Children’s Oncology Group
$1,000,000

CSU PET/CT Imaging Scanner
$1,200,000

Healing Tree Addiction Treatment Solutions Northeast Colorado Substance Abuse Collaborative
$1,691,140

Advocates for Children in Therapy Attachment Therapy Educational Documentary $150,000

Plains Medical Center/Community Health Center Low-Income, Working Family, Healthcare Facility in Strasburg
$250,000

Denver Rescue Mission Drug Rehabilitation/Homeless Literacy and Education Center
$250,000

Hospice of Metro Denver Life Quality Institute (Palliative Care Education)
$300,000

Colorado Youth Outdoors Conservation and Outdoor Education Pavilions at Swift Ponds
$200,000

Aims Community College Specialized equipment for use in training health professionals
$300,000

DEFENSE

Colorado State University & DoD Department of Defense Center for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research researching priority environmental problems and questions of concern to the Army, Navy and Air Force
$3,000,000

Banner Health & Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
Telehealth Access and Infrastructure Expansion telemedicine upgrades through the US Army Medical Research and Material Command
$6,000,000

Colorado State University and Colo School of Mines Rapid Detection of Bacterial Pathogens bio-terrorism detection research technology
$3,500,000

InPhase Technology & Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
Medical Image Database Holographic Archiving Library Systems the storage, retrieval, distribution, analysis, and archive of medical imaging and related documents for soldiers and veterans
$5,000,000

Center for Space Entrepreneurship an industry/university partnership to develop viable space technologies
$2,000,000

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Colorado State University Sustainable Biofuels Development Center $1,000,000