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[DEC. 16, 2003]  WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Peoria, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that the following Illinois projects are contained in the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 2004. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., assisted in securing funds for some of these projects.

This bill was passed by the House on Monday (Dec. 8) and is now awaiting Senate action. 

City of Peoria:

1. $500,000 for Medical/Technical District

2. $100,000 for Southern Gateway Revitalization

3. $648,500 for sanitary sewer infrastructure in Growth Cells 1 and 2

4. $200,000 for PeoriaNEXT to provide training in bioscience and biotechnology

City of Springfield: $350,000 for First Street sanitary sewer replacement

Greater Peoria Mass Transit District:  $300,000 for new buses

Springfield Mass Transit District:  $300,000 for new buses

Village of Forsyth:

1. $500,000 for construction of new water treatment plant

2. $200,000 for U.S. 51 frontage road

City of Virginia: $500,000 for construction of a water treatment facility

City of Lincoln: $500,000 for upgrades to city wastewater treatment plant     

Village of Washington: $401,500 for improvements to the School Street sanitary sewer

Village of Armington: $500,000 for construction of sanitary sewer

Village of Oreana: $250,000 for construction of water main and booster pumping station

City of Delavan: $350,000 for construction of new water service lines and storage tanks

Scott County and the village of Winchester: $500,000 in COPS technology funds

USDA Center for Agriculture Utilization and Research, Peoria Ag Lab:

1. $2.7 million for lab and facility improvements

2. Continue important Illinois agriculture research projects: $906,469 for the Animal Health Consortium and $476,880 for crop production and food processing

 

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Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation, Peoria: $3.6 million for research and development

University of Illinois, agriculture research:

1. $450,000 for the Future Foods initiative and to establish a World Food and Health Center

2. $760,000 for the Soybean Disease Biotechnology Research Center

3. $1,085,000 for the Illinois-Missouri Alliance for Biotechnology, a research initiative at the universities of Illinois and Missouri

4. $675,000 for the Livestock Genome Sequencing Initiative, to create an ordered map of large insert DNA clones covering the entire DNA in major species of food animals

OSF St. Francis, Peoria, rapid treatment:  $900,000 for expansion and renovation of emergency department

Proctor Hospital, Peoria:

1. $550,000 for hospital expansion

2. $250,000 for gambling addiction program

Memorial Medical Center, Springfield: $550,000 for equipment for the nursing training and education center

Culbertson Memorial Hospital, Rushville: $200,000 for construction of occupational health facility

SIU School of Medicine, Springfield: $150,000 for equipment for Cancer Institute

10/33 Ambulance Service, Spring Valley: $75,000 for updated defibrillator and computer equipment

Center for Prevention of Abuse, Peoria: $150,000 for continued construction of new facility

Tazewell-Woodford Head Start: $100,000 for continued construction of new facility

[News release from Rep. Ray LaHood,
18th Congressional District]

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