July 16, 2004
Friday

Washington, DC - Federal agencies have awarded a series of funding grants to Alaska groups statewide from Ketchikan to Bering Sea communities, the Alaska Congressional Delegation announced today.

The grants totaling more than $50 million have been awarded during the past week. Those receiving funds are:

Department of Justice:

• $356,211 to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program which works in cooperation with local jurisdictions to enforce laws prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, or the consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors.
• $100,000 to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for the Community Prevention Program.
• $338,900 for the Juvenile Accountability Block Grants Program for the enforcement of the Crime Control and Safe Streets Act by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
• $150,000 to the Alaska Native Women's Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
• $66,204 to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District for the Safe & Drug Free Schools Community Advisory Committee.
• $75,000 to the Alaska Council of School Administrators for the Alaska Staff Development Network which serves the Juneau Effective Prevention Project.
• $75,086 to the Sitka School District for the Advancing Our Youth Coalition.
• $70,874 to the Valdez Regional Health Authority, Inc.

Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration has granted $2,160,000 to the City of Ketchikan to help construct the extension of electrical and telecommunications lines to Gravina Island to support expansion of the Ketchikan Airport Industrial Park and to provide backup power and communications to the airport.

Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

• $2,753,280 to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for the Pacific Salmon Treaty Program to support continued management activities required in meeting national commitments under the Pacific Salmon Treaty.
• $281,938 to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to implement the Chinook salmon abundance based management system embodied in the Pacific Salmon Treaty.
• $275,000 for the Fisheries Finance Program to provide access to long-term financing or refinancing of the purchase cost of quota share in the halibut and sablefish fisheries.
• $329,260 to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act Program complete the Pink and Chum Salmon Stock Evaluation Program, Coho Salmon Research, Salmon Catch Sampling Project, and Troll Fishery Management Methods Research.
• $943,358 to the Prince William Sound Science and Technology Institute, Inc. for the investigation of the role of Pacific herring as important winter-period forage for Steller Sea Lions.
• $1,856,716 to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for the marine mammal data program to evaluate the Steller Sea Lions.
• $859,709 to the Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife for the Pacific Fisheries Data Program to research activities to provide information to fishery managers managing Bering Sea crab stocks toward optimum yield.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued the following Indian Housing Block Grants:

• $384,928 to the Asa'carsarmiut Tribe in Mountain Village
• $4,437,028 to Kodiak Island Housing Authority
• $198,190 to the Village of Atmautluak

Department of Health and Human Services:

• $975,783 to the Sunshine Community Health Center
• $3,574,245 to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks for research infrastructure
• $38,639 to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks for advanced education nursing training.
• $146,731 to the Native Village of Tyonek for Head Start programs
• $816,169 to Chugiak Children's Services, Inc. for their Head Start projects
• $888,250 to Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments for Early Head Start programs.

Department of Agriculture:

• A Community Facility Grant of $629,000 to the City of Wrangell to complete the museum and civic center.
• A Rural Business Enterprise Grant of $75,000 to the Lake and Peninsula Business Development Center.
• Rural Business Opportunity Grant of $85,818 to Kawerak, Inc. to be used to develop a business opportunity initiative, a component of the Kawerak Community Planning and Development Project.

The Department of Energy has awarded a grant of $342,000 to the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation.

Department of Transportation:

• $8,000,000 to the Alaska Railroad Corporation to realign track at Elemendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson. The realignment of the track will enhance the effective movement of rail traffic and increase train speeds and safety.
• $250,000 to Klawock to update the airport master plan study.
• $1,600,000 to Bethel for improve runway safety are and to rehabilitate the runway.
• $3,798,689 to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Works to preserve and extend the useful life of 27 general aviation and commercial airports.
• $1,605,200 to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation for the purchase of snow removal equipment in Southeast Alaska.
• $3,127,000 to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation to acquire snow removal equipment for the central region of Alaska for locations including Adak, Akhiok, Akiak, Chevak, Cold Bay, Kwethluk, Levelock, McGrath, Napakiak, Nondalton, Pilot Point, Port Graham, St. Paul, Scammon Bay and Willow.
• $1,710,000 to State of Alaska Department of Transportation to acquire snow removal equipment for Barrow, Cordova, Kotzebue, Nome, Unalakleet and Wales.
• $250,000 to the State of Alaska Department of Transportation to update the terminal area plan and the airport Master Plan for the Sitka Rocky Guiterrez Airport in Sitka, Alaska.
• $500,000 to fund Phase 2 of the Angoon Seaplane Base Master Plan for the Angoon Airport.
• $3,105,000 to the village of Kwinhagak to acquire snow removal equipment.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded the State of Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs $2,803,000 for the research the use of remote sensing imagery and the Geographic Information System to improve aviation safety in Alaska.

Source of News Release:

Office of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens
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