Interior FY2010 Appropriations Requests

Proposed Recipient: Blue Heron Lake Nature Conservancy
Amount: $275,000
Contact: Sondra Franceil, 257 Norwood Springs Road, Ft. Valley, GA  31030
Explanation: Funds are requested to provide seed funding for the creation of a "Green Energy" environmental education building to support a program of community environmental education and ecopsychology for "at risk" children.

Proposed Recipient: Blue Heron Lake Nature Conservancy
Amount: $461,000
Contact: Sondra Franceil, 257 Norwood Springs Road, Ft. Valley, GA  31030
Explanation: Funding is sought for the purchase and development of a Safe House in Peach County which would utilize the natural environment as a primary tool for an effective and innovative life changing health and wellness module for domestic abuse victims.

Proposed Recipient: City of Atlanta, GA
Amount: $2,000,000
Contact: Mayor Shirley Franklin, 55 Trinity Ave., Atlanta, GA
Explanation: Requests funding for improvements surface water quality by providing combined sewer capacity relief to capture more storm water and sewage flows and associated flood relief in several areas of the City.

Proposed Recipient: City of Bryon, GA
Amount: $250,000
Contact: Mayor Michael Chidester, 101 Murdock Lane, Byron, GA
Explanation: Rehabilitation of wastewater facilities, including a new main force line and two sewage lift pumping stations. 

Proposed Recipient: City of Columbus, GA 
Amount: $500,000
Contact: Columbus Water Works P.O. Box 1600 Columbus, GA 31902
Explanation: Flow-through Thermophilic Treatment National Demonstration project; EPA.

Proposed Recipient: Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Area
Amount: $150,000
Contact: Mr. Douglas Purcell, Historic Chattahoochee Commission, P.O. Box 942, LaGrange, GA  30241
Explanation: The project requests funding for a feasibility study by the National Park Service, as authorized and signed into law this year. 

Proposed Recipient: Clay County Board of Commissioners 
Amount: $250,000
Contact:  Pam Ward, County Administrator, P.O. Box 519, Ft.Gaines, GA
Explanation:  Project requests funding for an extension of the water system to low income areas of the county and to decrease ISO ratings from the current 10 to potentially a 7 or less.

Proposed Recipient: Ft. Valley State University
Amount: $2,500,000
Contact:  Dr. Larry Rivers; 1005 State University Drive, Fort Valley, GA 31030
Explanation: Requests funding for the development of a Center of Environmental Excellence (CoEE) to provide environmental health and green acquisition analysis by implementing a Chemical Life Cycle management (CLM) tool for use at FVSU and Georgia.

Proposed Recipient: Fort Valley Utility Commission
Amount: $250,000
Contact: Ned Watson, General Manager, Ft. Valley Commission, Ft. Valley, GA  31030
Explanation: Funding is requested for a project which will renovate and upgrade the City of Fort Valley's old wastewater reclamation facility to ensure compliance with EPD guidelines.

Proposed Recipient: Fort Valley Utility Commission
Amount: $1,250,000
Contact: Ned Watson, General Manager, Ft. Valley Commission, Ft. Valley, GA  31030
Explanation: Funding is sought for the construction of the three lift stations with a force main and gravity sewer which will convey wastewater from I-75 to the City's treatment facility.

Proposed Recipient: Fort Valley Utility Commission
Amount: $2,015,000
Contact: Ned Watson, General Manager, Ft. Valley Commission, Ft. Valley, GA  31030
Explanation: Funding is requested to address several utility related issues due to the proposed widening of South Camellia Blvd by the DOT, the Commission must relocate overhead primary and secondary electric lines, gas services, water mains, sanitary sewer lines and fiber optic cables.