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| DESCRIPTION | AMOUNT | CITY / LOCATION | BILL | INTENDED RECIPIENT or LOCATION | ||||||||
| 1 | Abilene (Brazos River Basin - Elm Creek) | $148,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 2 | Abilene Air Traffic Control Facilities | $2,156,000 | Abilene | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 3 | Abilene Paratransit Vehicle Replacement | $431,200 | Abilene | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 4 | Abilene, TX, Police Department | $253,800 | Abilene | Commerce, Justice & Science | ||||||||
| 5 | Addition to Fitness Center | $5,800,000 | Goodfellow AFB | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 6 | Addition/Alteration for San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC) Noth Incr 1 | $156,035,000 | San Antonio | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 7 | Adjudicated Youth Program at Texas A&M Corpus Christi | $188,000 | Corpus Christi | Commerce, Justice & Science | ||||||||
| 8 | Advanced Fuel Cell Research Program | $2,400,000 | Beaumont | Defense | Lamar University | |||||||
| 9 | Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training | $1,600,000 | San Marcos | Defense | Texas State University | |||||||
| 10 | Advanced Transit Program METRO Solutions Phase II | $0 | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | |||||||||
| 11 | Advanced Transit Program/METRO Solutions Bus Expansion | $490,000 | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | |||||||||
| 12 | Advancing Biofuel Production, Baylor University | $149,000 | Ag-Rural Development-FDA | Baylor University | ||||||||
| 13 | Advancing Texas Biofuel Production (TX) | $492,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 14 | Aerial Application Research, College Station, TX | $580,000 | College Station | Ag-Rural Development-FDA | ||||||||
| 15 | Air and Missile Defense Instrumentation System | $1,600,000 | Fort Bliss | Defense | Raytheon Technical Services Company | |||||||
| 16 | Air Force Reserve Munitions Igloos | $1,250,000 | Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve base | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 17 | Aircraft Maintenance Parking Facility | $5,140,000 | Fort Worth | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 18 | Alamo Community College System, TX for facilities and equipment | $429,000 | San Antonio | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 19 | Alief ISD Safe and Drug Free Schools, Houston, TX | $188,000 | Houston | Commerce, Justice & Science | ||||||||
| 20 | Alliance Airport Runway Extension | $784,000 | Fort Worth | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 21 | Alliance for NanoHealth | $4,000,000 | Houston | Defense | The Alliance for NanoHealth | |||||||
| 22 | Alliance for NanoHealth (TX) | $738,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 23 | Alliance for NanoHealth, for facilities and equipment | $633,000 | Houston | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 24 | Alliance for NanoHealth, translation of nanotechnology from the laboratory to clinical practice | $846,000 | Houston | Commerce, Justice & Science | ||||||||
| 25 | Alsbury Boulevard Extension | $588,000 | Burleson | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 26 | America's Army Live-Fire Shoot House Deployment | $800,000 | Stafford | Defense | Laser Shot, Inc. | |||||||
| 27 | Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX for a teacher training initiative | $195,000 | San Angelo | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 28 | Aquilla Lake | $887,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 29 | Arkansas-Red River Basins Chloride Control Area VI | $1,326,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 30 | Arlington Chamber of Commerce for commercialization of technology, especially bio- and nano-technology at University of Texas Arlington | $98,000 | Arlington | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 31 | Armed Forces Reserve Center Battle Projection Center (Phase II) | $15,000,000 | Ellington Field | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 32 | Armed Forces Reserve Center Building | $36,000,000 | East Houston | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 33 | Armed Forces Reserve Center Building | $49,900,000 | Fort Bliss | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 34 | Armed Forces Reserve Center Building | $31,900,000 | Northwest Houston | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 35 | Armed Services YMCA for construction of a full service YMCA | $392,000 | Killeen | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 36 | Army Reserve Center | $15,076,000 | Fort Worth | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 37 | Atascosa and Wilson County, TX Sheriff's Department Methamphetamine Law Enforcement | $141,000 | Commerce, Justice & Science | |||||||||
| 38 | Attoyec Bayou site 23-A | $330,000 | Ag-Rural Development-FDA | |||||||||
| 39 | Audie Murpy/American Cotton Museum for construction of a memorial and building | $98,000 | Greenville | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 40 | Austin Intelligent Transportation Systems | $245,000 | Austin | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | ||||||||
| 41 | Austin, TX Police Department Technology | $211,500 | Austin | Commerce, Justice & Science | ||||||||
| 42 | AVANCE, Inc, EI Paso, TX for parenting education programs | $121,000 | El Paso | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 43 | AVANCE, Inc., Del Rio, TX for a family literacy program | $97,000 | Del Rio | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 44 | AVANCE, Inc., for training and curriculum development for a parent-child educational program | $206,000 | San Antonio | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 45 | AVANCE, Inc., Waco, TX for parenting education programs | $121,000 | Waco | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 46 | Aviation Trainer/Squadron Operations Facility | $14,290,000 | Corpus Christi | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 47 | Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge | $271,000 | Interior | |||||||||
| 48 | Balmorhea Project | $57,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 49 | Bandera County, Bandera, TX for library enhancements | $195,000 | Bandera | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 50 | Baptist Child and Family Services STAR program, San Antonio, TX | $470,000 | San Antonio | Commerce, Justice & Science | ||||||||
| 51 | Barbour Terminal Channel | $177,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 52 | Bardwell Lake | $2,038,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 53 | Barracks (Grow the Force) | $45,000,000 | Fort Hood | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 54 | Barracks (Grow the Force) | $11,400,000 | Fort Bliss | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 55 | Barracks (Grow the Force) | $6,600,000 | Fort Sam Houston | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 56 | Barracks Complex | $47,000,000 | Fort Hood | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 57 | Base Operations Ramp, Phase I | $7,000,000 | Sheppard AFB | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 58 | Basic Expeditionary Airman Skill Training, Phase 2 | $14,000,000 | Lackland AFB | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 59 | Battle Command Training Center, Phase 1 | $1,950,000 | Fort Sam Houston | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 60 | Battlefield Health and Trauma Bio-Med Lab | $7,473,000 | Fort Sam Houston | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 61 | Battlefield Health and Trauma, Incr 2 | $53,000,000 | Fort Sam Houston | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 62 | Baylor College of Medicine, construction, renovation, and equipment at the Vannie E Cook, Jr. Children's Cancer and Hematology Clinic | $170,000 | Houston | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 63 | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX for epidemiological research and educational outreach related to childhood cancer in cooperation with the Vannie E. Cook Jr. Cancer Foundation in McAllen, TX | $312,000 | Houston | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 64 | Baylor Physical Sciences Laboratory enhancement at Baylor University | $658,000 | Commerce, Justice & Science | |||||||||
| 65 | Baylor Research Institute, for facilities and equipment | $343,000 | Dallas | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 66 | Baylor University, Waco, TX for its Language and Literacy Center | $97,000 | Waco | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 67 | Bayport Ship Channel | $177,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 68 | Bee Research, Weslaco, TX | $242,000 | Weslaco | Ag-Rural Development-FDA | ||||||||
| 69 | Belton Lake | $3,034,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 70 | Benbrook Lake | $3,000,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 71 | Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship Program | $5,810,000 | Houston | State-Foreign Ops | ||||||||
| 72 | Big Creek (Tri-County) Watershed Project | $813,000 | Ag-Rural Development-FDA | |||||||||
| 73 | Big Thicket National Preserve | $1,231,000 | Interior | |||||||||
| 74 | Biofuels Development at Texas A&M (TX) | $984,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 75 | Biosurety Development and Management Program | $800,000 | El Paso | Defense | Romanyk Consulting | |||||||
| 76 | Border Law Enforcement Training Program | $658,000 | Eagle Pass | Commerce, Justice & Science | ||||||||
| 77 | Bosque County | $40,000 | Homeland Security | |||||||||
| 78 | Brackenridge Hospital construction, renovation, and equipment | $170,000 | Austin | Labor-HHS-Education | ||||||||
| 79 | Brays Bayou | $13,453,000 | Houston | Energy & Water | ||||||||
| 80 | Brazos Island Harbor | $2,804,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 81 | Brazos Island Harbor, Brownsville Channel | $394,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 82 | Brazos Valley Transportation Management Center | $588,000 | Transportation and Housing & Urban Development | |||||||||
| 83 | Brigade Combat Team Complex #2 Incr 2 | $70,000,000 | Fort Bliss | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 84 | Brigade Combat Team Complex #3 Incr 1 | $103,000,000 | Fort Bliss | Military Construction | ||||||||
| 85 | Buffalo Bayou And Tribes, White Oak Bayou, TX | $98,000 | Energy & Water | |||||||||
| 86 | Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries | $5,897,000 | < | |||||||||