Wyden, Smith Announce Funds for Oregon Energy and Water Projects
Washington, D.C. - Oregon Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden announced today that they are one step closer to securing critical federal funding for Oregon energy and water projects. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved these projects last week as part of the Fiscal 2009 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, which now heads for the Senate floor.
"The management and protection of Oregon's abundant natural resources are vital to our state's economy and way of life," said Smith. "These funds will also strengthen our ability to research and develop initiatives for renewable energy and conservation."
"These funds will help restore ecosystems and will make OIT the only campus in the world to be completely geothermally powered," said Wyden. "With these resources, Oregon will break new ground in the areas of energy and environmental technology."
The funding bill provides $1.6 million for the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) to construct a geothermal power plant on its campus that, once completed, will make OIT the only campus in the world to satisfy all of its energy needs from a geothermal energy source.
The Klamath Project is slated to receive $25.008 million; and $36 million was allocated for the Columbia River Channel deepening.
Other projects approved for funding include:
- Savage Rapids Dam Removal -- $3 million
- Burnt, Malheur, Owyhee and Power River Basin Water Optimization Feasibility Study -- $300,000
- Crooked River Project -- $851,000
- Deschutes Ecosystem Restoration Project -- $300,000
- Deschutes Project -- $1.166 million
- Eastern Oregon Projects -- $828,000
- Oregon Investigations Program -- $444,000
- Rogue River Basin Project, Talent Division -- $902,000
- Tualatin Basin Water Supply Project -- $400,000
- Tualatin Project Title Transfer and Facility Assessment Study -- $106,000
- Tualatin Project -- $381,000
- Umatilla Project -- $3.932 million
- Christmas Valley Renewable Energy Development, Oregon Department of Energy -- $400,000
- Oregon Solar Highway, Oregon Department of Transportation -- $1 million
- Columbia River Treaty Access Sites, OR & WA -- $2.455 million
- Elk Creek Lake -- $3.12 million
- Willamette Temperature Control -- $3.331 million
- Lower Columbia River Ecosystem Restoration, OR & WA -- $1.5 million
- Columbia River Fish Mitigation, OR & WA -- $92 million
- Applegate Lake -- $904,000
- Blue River Lake -- $427,000
- Bonneville Lock and Dam -- $9.691 million
- Chetco River -- $574,000
- Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers Below Vancouver -- $18.052 million
- Columbia River at the Mouth -- $15.125 million
- Columbia River at Baker Bay -- $500,000
- Columbia River between Vancouver and the Dalles --$640,000
- Columbia River and Snake River Salmon Recovery Project -- $18 million
- The Dalles Lock and Dam -- $7.696 million
- Coos Bay -- $4.769 million
- Coquille River -- $307,000
- Cottage Grove Lake -- $991,000
- Cougar Lake -- $5.380 million
- Depoe Bay -- $124,000
- Detroit Lake -- $ 2.564 million
- Dorena Lake -- $831,000
- Fall Creek Lake -- $1.418 million
- Fern Ridge Lake -- $1.433 million
- Green Peter-Foster Lakes -- $2.323 million
- Hills Creek Lake -- $1.292 million
- Inspection of Completed Environmental Projects -- $33,000
- Inspection of Completed Works -- $413,000
- John Day Lock and Dam -- $7.049 million
- Lookout Point Lake -- $2.761 million
- Lost Creek Lake -- $3.560 million
- McNary Lock and Dam -- $5.183 million
- Port Orford -- $7,000
- Project Condition Surveys -- $220,000
- Rogue River at Gold Beach -- $587,000
- Scheduling Reservoir Operations -- $82,000
- Siuslaw River -- $583,000
- Skipanon Channel -- $ 5,000
- Tillamook Bay and Bar -- $2.2 million
- Umpqua River -- $635,000
- Willamette River at Willamette Falls -- $210,000
- Willamette River Bank Protection -- $62,000
- Willow Lake Creek -- $610,000
- Yaquina Bay and Harbor -- $1.482 million
- Yaquina River -- $300,000
- Amazon Creek - FEAS -- $350,000
- Walla Walla River Watershed - PED -- $500,000
- Willamette River Floodplain Restoration - FEAS -- $240,000
The committee also expressed support for Arrowhead Creek, Beaver Creek, Eugene Delta Ponds, Camp Creek-Zumwalt Prairie, and the Springfield Millrace - all ecosystem restoration projects - as well as the Port of Arlington's dock removal project and the City of Portland's Columbia Slough Section 1135 restoration project. Those projects are all eligible for federal funding, to be determined at a later date by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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