U.S. Senate Approves FY2001 VA-HUD Appropriations Bill
October 19, 2000

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate today approved legislation to fund the departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency and related agencies for Fiscal Year 2001. The measure, which totals $81.2 billion, contains funding for a variety of new and existing projects in California requested by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California).

“This legislation contains funding for a variety of important projects that will help to improve the quality of life throughout our state,” Senator Feinstein said.

Senator Feinstein, a member of the Senate Appropriations committee, announced funding levels for the following California projects in the legislation:

HUD/Economic Development Initiative
• $500,000 for the City of Gardena, California for planning of downtown redevelopment.
• $500,000 for the City of San Francisco, California for preservation and restoration of the Old Mint.
• $250,000 for the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California to expand and upgrade existing facilities.
• $250,000 for FAME Renaissance in Los Angeles, California to continue work on a small business incubator.
• $750,000 for the City of Fresno, California for the Fresno Community Health Centers regional medical center.
• $250,000 for the City of Inglewood, California for the Market Street Senior Center.
• $250,000 for the City of San Francisco, California for a homeless housing initiative.
• $250,000 for the City of Santa Ana, California for the IDEA high-tech education center.
• $800,000 to San Diego, California for final construction of San Diego's Children's Convalescent Hospital.
• $193,500 to the town of Yucca Valley, California for community regional park improvements to provide recreational opportunities to the local community.
• $430,000 to Riverside, California for the Goeske Center for Senior and Disabled Citizens.
• $215,000 to Escondido, California for the Quail Hills Development Program.
• $43,000 to the County of San Bernardino, California for roadway signage improvements to historic Route 66 between Topock and Victorville.
• $301,000 to the City of Redlands, California for infrastructure activities related to the Redlands Community Center.
• $430,000 to the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System in California for renovation of the gymnasium on the Sepulveda campus.
• $438,600 to the Children's Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, California for construction and infrastructure improvements.
• $64,500 to the Twentynine Palms Fire Department in Twentynine Palms, California for fire suppression equipment.
• $430,000 to Redding, California for Stillwater Industrial Park within the Shasta Metro Enterprise Zone `Distressed Community’.
• $430,000 to Kern County, California for infrastructure work in support of the new air terminal to Meadows Field.
• $415,000 to Temecula, California for the Alternatives to Domestic Violence Shelter.
• $21,500 to the City of Redlands, California for restoration projects at the historic Kimberly Crest House and Gardens.
• $645,000 to the Cities of El Segundo, Manhattan Beach and Hawthorne, California to ease traffic congestion along the Rosecrans corridor.
• $344,000 to the San Diego Youth and Community Services in California for the Storefront emergency shelter relocation of facilities ($172,000) and for the Take Wing transitional housing program for at-risk youth and families ($172,000).
• $430,000 to restore and rehabilitate Mile Square Park in California.
• $860,000 to Citrus Heights, California for Phase II of the Sunrise MarketPlace Revitalization project.
• $215,000 to El Monte, California for renovation of recreational facility by replacing swimming pools, modernizing parking areas, developing youth center.
• $130,000 to El Rio, California for extension of water and wastewater infrastructure to the community center gymnasium.
• $300,000 to Santa Paula, California purchase of new fire engine and equipment for the Fire Department.
• $430,000 to Coachella, California for construction of Boys and Girls Club facility.
• $215,000 to the County of San Bernardino, California for a public park complex to meet the recreational needs of the Spring Valley Lake community in Victorville.
• $415,000 to Oceanside, California for the Calle Montecito Neighborhood Center.
• $430,000 to Sacramento County, California for rehabilitation and preservation of historic structures and physical improvements for the town of Locke.
• $172,000 to the County of Inyo, California for facility and infrastructure improvements at the Bishop Airport to facilitate economic development and recreational access.
• $258,000 to the Fund for the Preservation of the California State Mining and Mineral Museum.
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• $77,400 to the City of Imperial Beach, California for lands purchased by the city for the Tijuana Wildlife Refuge.
• $860,000 to Pasadena, California for construction of a new fire station.
• $270,000 to the County of San Bernardino, California for the construction of the Hall of Paleontology at the historic San Bernardino County Museum.
• $430,000 to California State University and the City of Omaha, California for the Omaha Housing Initiative.
• $645,000 to the University of Southern California to help create the Alfred E. Mann Institute and Biomedical Engineering Center.
• $150,000 to Marin City, California for a Marin City Cultural and Community Center facility.
• $200,000 to the Sacramento, California Housing and Redevelopment Agency for the Smart Workplace Demonstration Center.
• $400,000 to the City of Salinas, California for the construction of a municipal pool.
• $50,000 to the City of Thousand Oaks, California for planning and construction of a child care center.
• $50,000 to the Cambria Historical Society in Cambria, California for the preservation of the Bianchini House.
• $200,000 to the Southside Boys and Girls Club in St. Cloud, Minnesota for planning and construction of a community center.
• $100,000 to the Fresno Community Medical Center in Fresno, California for development of a regional trauma and burn center.
• $250,000 to the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative in Los Angeles, California for economic development efforts in the Fairfax Avenue Ethiopian Business District.
• $250,000 to Culver City, California for the construction of the Culver City Senior Center.
• $200,000 to the Sacramento, California Boys and Girls Club for the construction of a facility on Lemon Hill Avenue.
• $50,000 to the City of Norwalk, California for renovations at the Norwalk Aquatic Center.
• $50,000 to the Tri-Valley Business Council in Livermore, California for a business incubator initiative known as Tri-Valley Technology Enterprise Center.
• $500,000 to the Center for Economic Development at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California for economic development efforts.
• $250,000 to Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California for the Madison Site Theater Center.
• $225,000 to the City of Los Angeles, California for construction of the Ernest E. Debs Nature Center.
• $100,000 to the Little Tokyo Service Community Center in Los Angeles, California for the development of a job training program.
• $50,000 to the County of San Diego, California for planning related to the development of a business park in East Otay Mesa.
• $200,000 to the City of East Palo Alto, California for the redevelopment of the Ravenswood Industrial Area.
• $50,000 to the City of Garden Grove, California for planning and construction of the West Haven Park Community Center.
• $100,000 to the City of San Leandro, California for landslide mitigation efforts.
• $250,000 to the Brotherhood Crusade Business Development and Capital Fund in Los Angeles, California for facility infrastructure needs and/or technical assistance and loans to small businesses.
• $100,000 to the Martin Luther King Freedom Center in Oakland, California for planning and development purposes.
• $200,000 to the Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood, California for community health outreach to the uninsured and medically underserved.
• $400,000 to the University of California-Merced for the renovation of the civil engineering building on Castle Air Force Base.
• The conference report also contains language extending the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) cap for the City of Los Angeles.

Environmental Protection Agency
• $1,000,000 to the University of California, Riverside for continued research of advanced vehicle design, advanced transportation systems, vehicle emissions, and atmospheric pollution at the CE-CERT facility.
• $500,000 to Riverside County, California for the Community and Environmental Transportation Acceptability Process (CETAP).
• $150,000 for the Santa Clara River Enhancement and Management Plan.
• $450,000 to Ventura County, California for continued development of the Calleguas Creek Watershed management plan.
• $1,200,000 to Gateway Cities, Council of Governments in California to complete Phase II of the Truck Impacted Intersections Program and develop the comprehensive Diesel Emissions Reduction Program.
• $900,000 for continuation of the Sacramento River Toxic Pollution Control Project, to be cost shared.
• $450,000 for the Water Resources Institute at California State University, San Bernardino to develop and maintain an information repository of water-related research and conflict resolution.
• $600,000 for the San Bernardino Municipal Water District in California for research and design of a mitigation project addressing the City's contaminated high groundwater table and dangers presented by liquefaction.
• $2,000,000 to San Diego, California for the Coastal Low Flow Storm Drain Diversion Project.
• $1,500,000 to the Mission Springs Water District in California to protect groundwater in the City of Desert Hot Springs.
• $2,650,000 to Olivenhain Municipal Water District in California for continued construction of a water treatment plant.
• $1,000,000 for the Cutler-Orosi Wastewater JPA for a wastewater treatment plant serving Cutler, Orosi, East Orosi, and Sultana, California.
• $1,000,000 for wastewater infrastructure improvements at the Placer County, California Subregional Wastewater Treatment Plant.
• $1,900,000 to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for the Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership.
• $1,500,000 to Lomita, California to upgrade water reservoir infrastructure.
• $600,000 for the continuation of a water reuse nitrate treatment demonstration project in Yucca Valley, California.
• $500,000 for continuation of water infrastructure improvements in Twentynine Palms, California.
• $850,000 for the continuation of water infrastructure improvements in the Yucaipa Valley Water District in Yucaipa, California.
• $1,300,000 for the Lower Owens River Project in Inyo County, California ($900,000) and in the City of Los Angeles ($400,000).
• $500,000 for storm and wastewater drainage and infrastructure improvements in the City of Yucaipa, California .
• $1,000,000 to San Clemente, California for the storm drainage management and pilot program implementation.
• $1,750,000 to Carlsbad, California for the Encina Basin Recycled Water System.
• $1,000,000 to San Joaquin County, California to rehabilitate water, sewer, storm drains, and surface infrastructure in East Stockton.
• $1,250,000 to Huntington Beach, California for wastewater and sewer infrastructure improvements.
• $1,000,000 for the City of Sacramento, California combined sewer overflow project.
• $1,000,000 for the City of Vallejo, California for a sanitary sewer system at Mare Island.
• $100,000 for wastewater and groundwater infrastructure improvements in Murrieta, California.
• $500,000 for Eureka, California for work on the Martin Slough Interceptor.

NASA
• $1,000,000 for the Chabot Observatory and Science Center, Oakland, California.
• $3,000,000 for continued academic and infrastructure needs related to the computer sciences, mathematics and physics building at the University of Redlands, Redlands, California.
• $1,000,000 for equipment needs at the University of San Diego Science and Education Outreach Center.
• $1,500,000 for the Santa Ana College Space Education Center in California.
• $1,000,000 for the Environmental Sciences Learning Center (part of the California Science Center) in Los Angeles, California.