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Senator Roberts: Congress passes Energy and Water Appropriations Conference ReportKansas U.S. Senator Pat Roberts Oct. 15 announced the Senate passed the Energy and Water Appropriations Conference Report for Fiscal Year 2010 containing critical investments in Kansas' infrastructure. The conference report was also approved by the House of Representatives, and now goes to the president to be signed into law. "The Energy and Water bill contains millions of dollars for improvements to our daily lives including projects that will make critical investments in our Kansas lakes, streams and rivers for recreation, drinking water and flood control," Senator Roberts said. The following are Kansas projects Senator Roberts personally worked to include in the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill: Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Investigation Projects Grand (Neosho) River Basin-$90,000 Missouri Levee System-$291,000 Topeka, Kansas-$143,000 Missouri River Degradation, Kansas and Missouri-$556,000 Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri-$386,000 Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers for Operations and Maintenance Wilson Lake-$200,000 The following are Kansas projects Senators Roberts and Brownback worked to include in the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill: Department of Energy-Office of Science KU Cancer Research Equipment-$4,000,000 Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Construction Projects Turkey Creek Basin, Kansas and Missouri-$2,822,000 Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Investigation Projects Brush Creek Basin, Kansas and Missouri-$217,000 Manhattan, KS-$134,000 Upper Turkey Creek-$90,000 Continued Funding of Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources Projects Wichita Project-Equus Beds Division-$1,500,000 Department of Energy-Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wichita State University, National Institute for Aviation Research, Advanced Materials Research-$1,500,000 The following projects were included in the President's request for this bill: Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers General Construction Projects Missouri River Fish Mitigation, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska-$56,686,000 Continued Funding of Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources Projects Kansas Investigations Program-$24,000 Wichita Project-Cheney Division-$389,000 Continued Funding of Corps of Engineers for Operations and Maintenance Clinton Lake, KS-$1,970,000 Council Grove Lake, KS-$1,653,000 El Dorado Lake, KS-$1,132,000 Elk City Lake, KS-$682,000 Fall River Lake, KS-$1,219,000 Hillsdale Lake, KS-$817,000 Inspection of Completed Works, KS-$209,000 John Redmond Dam and Reservoir, KS-$3,502,000 Kanopolis Lake, KS-$2,174,000 Marion Lake, KS-$1,730,000 Melvern Lake, KS-$2,044,000 Milford Lake, KS-$1,955,000 Pearson-Skubitz Big Hill Lake, KS-$1,399,000 Perry Lake, KS-$1,915,000 Pomona Lake, KS-1,945,000 Scheduling Reservoir Operations, KS-$100,000 Toronto Lake, KS-$3,347,000 Tuttle Creek Lake, KS-$1,960,000 Wilson Lake, KS-$1,772,000 Kansas benefits from the teamwork of Senator Roberts and Senator Sam Brownback, R-KS, a key member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
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