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Local Project Funds That Brown Secured, Click HERE
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – President Biden recently signed a funding package into law that includes
key wins for southeast Ohio that Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) helped secure,
including funding local projects and other important priorities. Brown and his
office worked with local entities across Ohio to request and secure
Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) funding through the Senate
Appropriations Committee, securing more than $100 million for projects
throughout Ohio.
“My office and I regularly host
and attend meetings with local leaders, because listening to the concerns
facing communities across Ohio is the best way for me to do my job and serve
Ohioans,” said
Brown. “We need to use every tool available to get resources to Ohio, and
that’s what we did with these local priorities. The best ideas don’t come out
of Washington – they come from Ohioans who know better than anyone what their
communities need.”
Brown
secured priorities that will help create jobs, lower costs for families, and
invest in Ohio communities.
Investing in Ohio
Communities:
$500,000 for the
Heartland Green Energy and Manufacturing Valley Initiative in Piketon: These funds will support Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative
(SODI) in preparing for site reindustrialization and in extending SODI's reach
under an integrated energy and advanced manufacturing strategy to develop
economic clusters in southern Ohio founded initially on clean energy
generation, blue/green hydrogen production for advanced manufacturing and
siting a transportation and logistics hubs.
$75,000 for Mead Township
Government Services Building: These funds will go toward a
much-needed upgrade to current government services buildings and equipment. The
existing services building was built circa 1910 and it is failing.
$500,000 for the Southern Ohio
Diversification Initiative: These funds will go toward the
Heartland Green Energy and Manufacturing Valley Initiative.
$250,000 for the Ohio University
Mobile Health Initiative: this funding will go toward
Ohio’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Community Health Program’s
(CHP) acquisition of a compact mobile health unit to expand clinical offerings
to underserved communities in Southeast and Eastern Ohio counties. The new unit
will allow for an expansion of programs and services, including the Ohio
Department of Health Vaccines for Children program, childhood hearing and
vision screenings in partnership with local school districts, and adult health
screenings and education clinics to new locations throughout 20-24 counties in
the Southeast and Eastern Ohio region.
Public Safety:
$74,000 for the Arrowhead Joint
Fire District AJFD: these funds will go toward the
expansion of the fire district’s current facility, which was constructed in the
1960’s and was designed for volunteers and smaller apparatus. In 2017, AJFD
transitioned from an all-volunteer department to a combination department with
paid firefighters. With the proposed expansion, the facility would meet ADA
standards and have climate control allowing it to serve as a temporary shelter
for warming and cooling during inclement weather and natural disaster.
Energy and Water:
$3,500,000 for the City
of Chillicothe’s Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP): These funds will go toward updating several deteriorating and
obsolete processes and provide improved services to residents, businesses, and
industries in and around the City.
$1,000,000 for the
Village of Midvale’s Water Treatment Plant Filtration Improvement Project: These funds will go toward providing cleaner water for
Village.
$500,000 for the Village of
Tuscarawas Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP):
These funds will go toward improvements to the Village’s wastewater lagoon
aeration system by providing new diffusers, a new generator, an ultraviolet
light treatment system, and a new screenings conveyor.
$300,000 for the
Village of Scio: These funds will go
toward replacing approximately 4,200 linear feet of water lines. Water services
will be replaced with pavement and sidewalk restored to pre-construction
conditions. The waterline that will be replaced, along with the lead service
connections to houses are located on Grandview, Maple, Walnut, and Brown
Streets.
$195 million to fund the Appalachian Regional Commission to promote
economic and community development, education and job training, and critical
infrastructure throughout the region.
$467 million is provided
for cleanup at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, an increase
of $36.7 million over the prior fiscal year which will ensure that cleanup
continues as planned. Brown fought to ensure that workers at Piketon receive
the necessary funding to maintain workforce levels and keep cleanup on pace.
Land and Water Conservation Fund
(LWCF): The bill provides $900 million now
permanently available from the LWCF as a result of enactment of the Great
American Outdoors Act. These allocations include $418 million for the federal
program, $330 million for the state grants program, and $152 million for other
non-federal grant programs.
Brown
cosponsored the legislation to permanently fund LWCF.
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