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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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