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Congressman Hodes' FY2010 Appropriations Requests
April 3, 2009
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Project Name: Acquisition of the Blake Island, Mollidgewock Brook, and Big Island Properties
Recipient: Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge
Recipient Address: Route 16 North, Errol, New Hampshire 03579
Requested Amount: $4,500,000
Explanation of Project: This project will allow the Refuge to purchase the fee acquisition of Blake Island, the fee acquisition of the Mollidgewock property, and the acquisition of a conservation easement on Big Island. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because, taken together, the properties will help ensure continued resource protection for this jewel of northern New England, and build on a series of significant federal investments in the refuge in recent years.
Project Name: Advanced Carbon Nanotube Volume Production Facility
Recipient: Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.
Recipient Address: 162 Pembroke Road, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $9,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will create a 100,000 square foot facility with proportional increases in product volume output to meet the military’s near-term demand for carbon nanotube large area sheets for industrial scale applications. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will create a new manufacturing capability, establish more than 200 new jobs in New Hampshire, and prevent the transfer of technology and jobs overseas.
Project Name: ALLWell Phase II Utility & Energy Efficiency Study
Recipient: Plymouth State University
Recipient Address: 17 High Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264
Requested Amount: $300,000
Explanation of Project: This project will conduct a Utility and Energy Efficiency study for the new ALLWell facility at Plymouth State University. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because PSU’s involvement in the research and creation of green buildings will pave the way for other universities and large commercial buildings to also see the economic and environmental benefits of such building.
Project Name: Berth 11/13 Waterfront Support Facility
Recipient: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Recipient Address: Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03804-5000
Requested Amount: $23,100,000
Explanation of Project: This project will construct a state-of-the-art “LEAN” waterfront support facility for submarine availabilities performed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will enable submarines to return back to the Fleet Commanders early for performing more missions, and enhance productivity and promote efficiency and teamwork for the production shops, Ship Force, Project Team, and Engineering personnel at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Project Name: Broadband Fiber Route for 24/7 Reliability
Recipient: LRGHealthcare (dba Franklin Regional Hospital)
Recipient Address: 15 Aiken Avenue, Franklin, New Hampshire 03235
Requested Amount: $400,000
Explanation of Project: This project will contribute the necessary IT infrastructure for broader application of clinical and medical record systems for the delivery of safe and effective care, including placing a minimum of 48 strands of single mode optic fiber cable along a new route between Laconia and Franklin and providing expanded bandwidth for health care applications as well as improved reliability. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will increase the availability of broadband infrastructure to support both the development of health care to an underserved population and economical and quality medical delivery through the availability of a more robust and reliable infrastructure.
Project Name: Climate Change and Air Pollutant Impacts to New England’s Rare Alpine Zone
Recipient: Appalachian Mountain Club
Recipient Address: 5 Joy Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Requested Amount: $350,000
Explanation of Project: This project will analyze existing long-term data on climate and air pollution from the largest northeast alpine habitat (Presidential Range, NH) using climate indices biologically relevant for mountain ecosystems. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because the benefits of understanding the impacts of climate change on high elevation ecosystems in the White Mountains of New Hampshire will have long-term benefits in helping to protect these valuable resources, both ecologically and from an economic/tourism standpoint.
Project Name: Cold Weather Layering System
Recipient: Polartec, LLC
Recipient Address: 8 Exectutive Drive, Hudson, New Hampshire 03051
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will allow for the fielding of 36,496 CWLS sets to the U.S. Marine Corps. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will reduce the weight and volume that a Marine operating as dismounted infantry must carry to accomplish combat missions in mountainous and cold weather environments.
Project Name: Concord Water Treatment System Improvements
Recipient: City of Concord, New Hampshire
Recipient Address: 41 Green Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $405,000
Explanation of Project: This project will repair the Water Treatment Sedimentation Basin structure, replace the Water Treatment Filter Back Wash Pumping System, and replace the Water Treatment Raw Water Pump and High Service Pump. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will secure and stabilize the City’s water system, which is critical to residential safety and economic development.
Project Name: Connecticut River Ecosystem Restoration
Recipient: The Nature Conservancy
Recipient Address: 22 Bridge Street, 4th Floor, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $450,000
Explanation of Project: This project will analyze the operation of 14 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control dams in the Connecticut River Basin to determine if it is possible to manage these dams for environmental benefits, while maintaining important human uses. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will help maintain and restore fish habitat and populations to the Connecticut River, which helps support local businesses who support the hunting and angling communities.
Project Name: Conservation of Cardigan Highlands
Recipient: New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, Division of Forests and Lands
Recipient Address: 172 Pembroke Road, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $3,770,000
Explanation of Project: The Cardigan Highlands project will conserve nearly 9,300 acres of ecologically exceptional working forest between Mount Cardigan and White Mountain National Forest through a Forest Legacy easement held by the state of New Hampshire. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it protects the full range of ecosystem services targeted by the Forest Legacy program, including productive timberland and unique forest communities, high-quality surface and ground water, exceptional fish and wildlife habitat, and extensive recreational and historic resources.
Project Name: Consolidation of Structural Shops
Recipient: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Recipient Address: Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03804-5000
Requested Amount: $36,600,000
Explanation of Project: This project will consolidate Structural Shop operations located throughout the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will physically realign the facilities of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to better support the operational processes.
Project Name: Coos County Rail Safety Upgrades, Coos County, NH
Recipient: New Hampshire Department of Transportation
Recipient Address: 7 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301
Requested Amount: $4,648,000
Explanation of Project: This project will replace 23 miles of non-controlled cooled steel rail that is approximately 80 years old with continuous welded rail. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will support a growing domestic industry that is globally competitive; attract new companies to the region; maintain high-paying jobs; and reduce truck traffic, which results in lower oil imports, less local air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and highway congestion.
Project Name: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Outpatient Surgery Center
Recipient: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Recipient Address: One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will construct a 40,000 square foot outpatient surgical center in order to expand capacity, improve efficiency and reduce cost, improve the surgical experience for ambulatory patients and their families, and provide patient and family centered care. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will help to close the Quality Gap, provide a learning environment for the development of time management skills, create a team that will focus on an efficient and consistent process of care, diminish exposure time to the surgical procedure and anesthesia and hence potential complications, and create 56 full-time employees and numerous construction jobs.
Project Name: Dartmouth Regional Technology Center Operations
Recipient: Dartmouth Regional Technology Center
Recipient Address: 16 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03755
Requested Amount: $275,000
Explanation of Project: The Dartmouth Regional Technology Center (DRTC) program fills a critical role in developing promising technologies and research findings with the promise of significant social impact into commercially successful companies. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because, in two years of operation, the DRTC has fostered creation of over 130 technology-related jobs in the immediate region, and stimulated construction of a new facility in Lebanon for one of its graduating tenants.
Project Name: Full Cycle Deployment Support Pilot Program
Recipient: New Hampshire National Guard
Recipient Address: 1 Minuteman Way, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $8,360,000
Explanation of Project: This project will initiate comprehensive service coordination through a one-stop model with all reserve service members in New Hampshire and their families while they are in the pre-deployment through post-deployment phase. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will enable service members and commanders to better focus on their important missions knowing that the families at home are taken care of; help returning service members to better integrate with their families, civilian careers, and communities; and significantly improve retention rates, recruit quality, and overall reintegration success.
Project Name: Gate 2 Security Improvements
Recipient: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Recipient Address: Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03804-5000
Requested Amount: $7,100,000
Explanation of Project: This project will construct a new hardened guard house, active barriers, and a permanent POV inspection shelter at Gate 2 for Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) measures at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will improve security and better protection for base personnel, buildings, and vital submarine repair facilities.
Project Name: High Speed, High Resolution Combined Multibeam Side Scan and Interferometric Bathymetric Sonar
Recipient: L-3 Communications Klein Associates, Inc.
Recipient Address: 11 Klein Drive, Salem, New Hampshire 03079
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will demonstrate, with vessel mounted L-3 Klein equipment and previously validated UNH software updated for bathymetric capability, that a dedicated system combining side-scan sonar with Bathymetric capability for Rapid Environmental Assessment is not only effective but offers considerable cost savings. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will save the Navy money by allowing them to use one sonar device and perform the mission in a quarter of the time and increase jobs in Salem, New Hampshire by 15 to 20 jobs.
Project Name: Highly Energy Efficient Shelters with Integrated Insulation Blankets
Recipient: Worthen Industries, Inc.
Recipient Address: 3 East Spit Brook Road, Nashua, New Hampshire 03060
Requested Amount: $2,900,000
Explanation of Project: This project will optimize the process to package aerogel insulation into a tent skin material that is both highly energy efficient and easily integrated into military shelters. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide significant fuel savings for heating and cooling of shelters to agile forces in the field, and reduce the number of fuel convoys that can targeted by roadside threats.
Project Name: Hostile Fire Indicator
Recipient: BAE Systems, Inc.
Recipient Address: 95 Canal Street, Nashua, New Hampshire 03061
Requested Amount: $8,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will refine system requirements; perform initial system trade analysis to define the most effective approach; recommend integrated solution alternatives; and recommend an improved sensor to the Army. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will protect our soldiers; save lives; save aircraft; and create a system that costs less to acquire, operate and maintain.
Project Name: Institute for Sustainable Rural Economies
Recipient: Plymouth State University
Recipient Address: 17 High Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264
Requested Amount: $357,620
Explanation of Project: This project will addresses the economic, educational, and research needs of the northern border region of the United States, while providing a model for university-community collaboration that benefits sustainable economic development. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will work to grow the economy though investments in and training with New Hampshire’s existing workforce, including displaced workers, and enhance energy self-reliance, workforce development, and economic development efforts.
Project Name: Joint Command Vehicle and Supporting C3 Systems
Recipient: New Hampshire National Guard
Recipient Address: 1 Minuteman Way, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $2,250,000
Explanation of Project: This project will purchase replacement and new communications equipment to update the Commander’s Joint Operations Center and Command Post with enhanced technology to adequately receive and monitor ISR information to track State response missions and forecast and plan for future New Hampshire National Guard missions. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide the New Hampshire National Guard with modern, state of the art response capabilities that would establish or enhance our ability to respond to domestic needs of the United States and the people of New Hampshire during a terrorist incident, or natural/man-made disaster.
Project Name: Land Acquisition at the Silvio Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Recipient: Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Recipient Address: 103 East Plumtree Road, Sunderland, Massachusetts 01375
Requested Amount: $7,065,000
Explanation of Project: This project will acquire land across the four-state 7.2 million acre Connecticut River Watershed including the Pondicherry Division and the proposed Mascoma River Division of the Refuge. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it conserves land and protects wildlife and ecosystems across multiple divisions of the Silvio Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.
Project Name: Lattice Block Structures for AM2 Matting Replacement
Recipient: Federal Technology Group
Recipient Address: 11C Industrial Way, Building 6A, Salem, New Hampshire 03079
Requested Amount: $3,500,000
Explanation of Project: This project will test and validate Lattice Block Structures matting as a replacement for Air Field Matting to rapidly expand parking aprons, taxiways, and runways for temporary airfields in severe terrain. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will create an additional facility investment of at least $50 million and 400 jobs in Salem, New Hampshire.
Project Name: Lowell-Nashua-Manchester Rail Corridor, Nashua and Manchester, NH and Lowell, MA
Recipient: New Hampshire Department of Transportation
Recipient Address: 7 Hazen Drive, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: Bill Language
Explanation of Project: This project will allow for all analysis and required studies that must be completed prior to construction including preliminary engineering, environmental assessment, financial analysis, user benefit analysis, risk analysis and final design. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will develop regularly scheduled passenger rail service connecting Nashua and Manchester with Lowell, Massachusetts, providing intermodal options for travelers, reducing congestion and environmental impacts of single-occupant vehicle travel, and promoting economic development throughout the region.
Project Name: Mahoosuc Gateway/ Success Township - Phase I - Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Recipient: National Park Service
Recipient Address: Northeast Regional Office, U.S. Custom House, 200 Chestnut Street, Fifth Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
Requested Amount: $1,375,000
Explanation of Project: This project will acquire 4,770 acres to be added to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and a conservation easement covering 1,200 acres of land adjoining the Trail to expand protection of the trail corridor for six miles along the crest of the Mahoosuc Mountain Range. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it would provide numerous benefits to the local and state economies by protecting and enhancing recreation and tourism opportunities and ensuring the long-term sustainable use of forest resources for fiber and energy production through the conservation of a working forest in close proximity to two local communities.
Project Name: Mahoosuc Gateway/Success Township Project - Phase II
Recipient: New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, Division of Forests and Lands
Recipient Address: 172 Pembroke Road, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will conserve a 15,200-acre property that figures prominently in local and regional economic resource plans as a working forest critical to the economy for its timber and myriad motorized and non-motorized recreational values. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because conserving this land as a working forest is a resource for renewable fuel and fiber production, environmental protection, public access, and tourism and recreation for the Berlin and Gorham area.
Project Name: Merrimack County Mental Health Court Pilot Program
Recipient: County of Merrimack, New Hampshire
Recipient Address: 4 Court Street, Suite 2, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $250,000
Explanation of Project: This project will use a collaborative approach to dealing with offenders who have mental health problems to take the steps necessary to stem the endless cycle of arrest and incarceration. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because alternative sentencing that mandates treatment will save incarceration, medical, and legal costs.
Project Name: Merrimack River Anadromous Fish Habitat Conservation
Recipient: Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Recipient Address: 54 Portsmouth Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $500,000
Explanation of Project: This project will proactively conserve undeveloped river frontage and high-quality upland watershed where it still exists in the Merrimack River basin of New Hampshire. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it protects and conserves land in the Merrimack basin, guided by a conservation plan that focuses on four tributaries including the Baker River, Smith River, Souhegan River, and the South Branch of the Piscataquog River.
Project Name: Merrimack River Watershed Assessment Study - Phase 2
Recipient: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
Recipient Address: 29 Hazen Drive, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will assist New Hampshire and Massachusetts in developing a comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Merrimack River from Manchester to Plymouth, New Hampshire. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because water quality declines in New Hampshire’s Merrimack Valley could result in $8.3 million in lost sales, $3 million in lost income, and 131 lost jobs.
Project Name: Monadnock Biodiesel Collaborative
Recipient: Keene State College
Recipient Address: 229 Main Street, Keene, New Hampshire 03435
Requested Amount: $1,192,000
Explanation of Project: This project will demonstrate how regional recycling of waste grease, in a self-sustainable, cost-effective manner, can reduce water degradation, and improve air quality. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will assist needy families with home heating, investigate aternative feedstocks to create biodiesel fuel, expand the fuel quality testing laboratory so that other biofuel producers across the State and region can certify their products in a cost-effective way, and expand the type of emissions and exposure assessment research conducted in Keene, New Hampshire.
Project Name: Multiband Realtime Hyperspectral Targeting Sensor
Recipient: Optical Alchemy Incorporated
Recipient Address: 22 Cotton Road, Suite 150, Nashua, New Hampshire 03063
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will design the Multiband Realtime Hyperspectral Targeting Sensor to provide additional multi-mission capabilities including counter-IED, counter-sniper, and counter chemical/biological agent. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide forces with a more effective standoff detection method to meet threats which will reduce the incidence of injury and death.
Project Name: Multi Climate Protection System (MCPS) for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps
Recipient: Polartec, LLC
Recipient Address: 8 Exectutive Drive, Hudson, New Hampshire 03051
Requested Amount: $8,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will replace eight outdated garments for the Navy that are bulky, do not fit the aircrew population, have minimal water and wind resistance, have limited moisture management, and cannot decrease or increase thermal value by addition or removal of layers with the Multi Climate Protection System. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because, to date, MCPS has reached approximately 30 percent of all deployed aircrews, and the project employs over 1,000 New Hampshire and Massachusetts residents.
Project Name: Nashua Area Health Center Relocation and Expansion
Recipient: Lamprey Health Care, Inc.
Recipient Address: 207 South Main Street, Newmarket, New Hampshire 03857
Requested Amount: $450,000
Explanation of Project: This project will expand the Nashua Area Health Center when it relocates in order to serve additional patients and accommodate additional provider staff and expanded support staff. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will allow the NAHC to serve an additional 3,000 patients over two years and expand the NAHC staff by approximately nine positions.
Project Name: New Community Health Facility
Recipient: Coos County Family Health Services
Recipient Address: 54 Willow Street, Berlin, New Hampshire 03570
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will constuct a 30,000 sq ft building to take the place of two leased facilities. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will enable the regional community health center to better meet the primary care health needs of the medically underserved population and generate both short and long term employment for this economically depressed region.
Project Name: New England Defense Job Creation and Supply Chain Initiative
Recipient: New Hampshire Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Recipient Address: 172 Pembroke Road, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will continue increasing the participation of New England small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises in Department of Defense (DOD) and defense prime contractors supply chains by increasing their success for awards for production of machined parts utilizing a newly developed and proven Turn-Key Rapid Production System. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will create or retain up to 200 defense manufacturing jobs in New England, provide DOD rapid response capability to surge demand using the network of New England suppliers, and provide DOD risk mitigation of supply chain.
Project Name: New England Mobile Outreach Skills Training Program
Recipient: New Hampshire Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Recipient Address: 172 Pembroke Road, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will deploy the proven Mobile Occupational Skills Training (MOST) Program in New England as an immediate job creation solution where which up to 500 individuals from the disadvantaged population including the unemployed, returning Veterans, and recipients for Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) would be trained and placed in newly created or existing vacant entry-level jobs in manufacturing sectors. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide skills that lead to jobs and medical coverage for up to 500 individuals.
Project Name: New Hampshire Drug Treatment Technology Enhancement Initiative
Recipient: Phoenix House
Recipient Address: 12 Cottage Lane, Dublin, New Hampshire 03444
Requested Amount: $500,000
Explanation of Project: This project will acquire, install, and train staff in the use of a clinical management system that will enable them better treat and assist clients. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because this technology will allow the staff to thoroughly assess a client’s needs, customize treatment, update clinical records, electronically share data within the Phoenix House treatment network and with governmental and community partners, and help program graduates remain in recovery by providing electronic access to Phoenix House support services.
Project Name: New Hampshire Electronic ICU Pilot Program
Recipient: Weeks Medical Center, Inc.
Recipient Address: 173 Middle Street, Lancaster, New Hampshire 03584
Requested Amount: $518,885
Explanation of Project: This project will develop a pilot project for a rural, isolated hospital ICU to link via a dedicated broadband network to an advanced tertiary hospital eICU. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because by using the benefits of the eICU model, patients can receive intensive care in their own community rather than suffer the additional burdens and costs of traveling to a distant tertiary hospital.
Project Name: New Hampshire Primary Care Workforce Initiative
Recipient: Bi-State Primary Care Association
Recipient Address: 3 South Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $800,000
Explanation of Project: This project will allow New Hampshire Community Health Centers (NH CHCs) and safety net providers to continue to invest in increasing recruitment costs; the New Hampshire Recruitment Center to increase the national marketing and outreach to primary care providers in practice; and the statewide Area Health Education Centers to offer support to NH CHCs and safety net providers that serve as training sites for health professional students and to encourage students in secondary school and college to consider careers in primary care in New Hampshire. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will enable NH CHCs and safety net providers to increase their ability to recruit doctors and dentists to work at NH CHCs and safety net provider clinics, provide direct employment and training opportunities for people in the State, serve additional patients, and positively impact the local economies.
Project Name: Northern Forest Partnership Program
Recipient: Northern Forest Center
Recipient Address: 18 North Main Street, 2nd Floor, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $500,000
Explanation of Project: This project will provide small grants to support innovative, community-generated projects that address economic, community and conservation needs in New Hampshire and the four-state Northern Forest region. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide economic benefit to Northern Forest communities by leveraging investment in new economic opportunities tied to the forest base.
Project Name: Osgood Pond Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project
Recipient: Town of Milford, New Hampshire
Recipient Address: 1 Union Square, Milford, New Hampshire 03055
Requested Amount: $975,000
Explanation of Project: This project will restore the Osgood Pond to an open water aquatic ecosystem; provide habitat for fisheries and waterfowl; maintain and restore wetland resources in the upper reaches of the Pond on the Town-owned Brox lands; and utilize dredged material from the project for restoration purposes. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because the 30 acre restoration area is within the watershed of Osgood Pond, within a future industrial development area, and would be restricted from future development with a permanent conservation easement.
Project Name: Passive IR Enhanced Electro-Optical and Infrared (EO/IR) Sensors Development Program
Recipient: Axsys Technologies IR Systems, Inc.
Recipient Address: Systems Surveillance Systems Group, 44 Simon Street, Nashua, New Hampshire 03060
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will provide High performance Electro-Optical and Infrared (EO/IR) sensors for both naval ship and ship-based aircraft (UAVs). This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will give U.S. naval assets extended surveillance, situational awareness, and force protection and create eight to 15 new jobs in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Project Name: Pemi Youth Center After School Program
Recipient: Pemi Youth Center
Recipient Address: 111 Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264
Requested Amount: $121,500
Explanation of Project: This program provides both supervision during the critical hours directly after school and quality programs including academic support, mentoring, support groups, drug and alcohol free/prevention programs and community service opportunities to local high risk youth. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because the Pemi Youth Center provides critical, quality programming to at risk youth with no financial burden to participating lower income families.
Project Name: Persistent Spinel Transparent Armor Production
Recipient: Oxy-Gon Industries, Inc.
Recipient Address: 42 Old Route 28, Epsom, New Hampshire 03234
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will support the transition to production of transparent Spinel ceramic armor for weight critical, advanced ballistic protection for combat and support vehicles and enable a major manufacturing scale up initiative for large flat and curved Spinel armor windows. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will create between 20 and 30 additional new highly skilled jobs in the first year and another 50 to 60 new employees in the following year.
Project Name: Program for Alternative Transportation and Health (PATH)
Recipient: Central New Hampshire Regional Planning Commission
Recipient Address: 28 Commercial Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $100,000
Explanation of Project: This project will increase the multi-modal transportation options in the central New Hampshire region by engaging members of the community to bike, walk, carpool, and take public transportation to work. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will alleviate traffic congestion, improve air quality, improve community health, decrease the impact on regional roads, and create jobs.
Project Name: Quabbin to Cardigan Conservation Initiative
Recipient: Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Recipient Address: 54 Portsmouth Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $500,000
Explanation of Project: This project will launch a sustained, landscape-scale conservation initiative in the Monadnock Highlands of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, one of the largest remaining areas of intact, interconnected, ecologically-significant forest in central New England, and establish key connections between the region for wildlife passage and human recreation. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because, if present trends continue with no parallel effort to conserve this land while still relatively intact and inexpensive, the result will be the irreversible fragmentation of the region’s forests, and degradation of its exceptional habitat, watershed, recreational and economic values.
Project Name: Reducing First Responder Casualties with Physiological Monitoring
Recipient: Globe Manufacturing
Recipient Address: 37 Loudon Road, Pittsfield, New Hampshire 03263
Requested Amount: $2,400,000
Explanation of Project: This project will provide field evaluation and use model validation testing of the physiological monitoring system at 24 user sites, including military groups. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will reduce casualties for first responders, including military personnel, who are subject to dangerous levels of heat stress as a result of the extreme conditions in which they must operate.
Project Name: The Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing Education
Recipient: Keene State College
Recipient Address: 229 Main Street, Keene, New Hampshire 03435
Requested Amount: $300,000
Explanation of Project: This project will complete an educational model that can be used both in the Monadnock Region and replicated in other communities, institute a no interest or low interest loan fund for potential students, and purchase machine equipment for classroom and training use for The Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing Education, a collaboration between Keene State College, River Valley Community College and Keene Community Education. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because the Center will help its students to secure jobs to improve their economic status and that of their families.
Project Name: Renovations of Burch House and Friendship House, Bethlehem, NH
Recipient: Tri-County Community Action Program, Inc.
Recipient Address: 30 Exchange Street, Berlin, New Hampshire 03570
Requested Amount: $342,000
Explanation of Project: This project will renovate two buildings, Burch House and Friendship House, owned and operated by the Tri-County Community Action Program. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will create 18 jobs and sustain employment for over 300 individuals, and continue providing roughly 4,200 shelter beds nightly to 85 to 90 homeless women and children every year and a 28-day residential program.
Project Name: Replacement of Squadron Operations Facilities
Recipient: New Hampshire National Guard
Recipient Address: 1 Minuteman Way, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $10,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will consolidate the New Hampshire National Guard 157th Air Refueling Wing (ANG) Operations Group into a single building in order to improve its command communications and overall efficiency of operations. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will improve the New Hampshire National Guard’s command communications and overall efficiency of operations through this project and be able to better serve the citizens of New Hampshire during a natural/man made disaster or a terrorist incident.
Project Name: Riverbend Farms, Merrimack County, NH
Recipient: Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc.
Recipient Address: North State Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $475,000
Explanation of Project: This project will identify an under-used or no longer used farm property that would be at-risk of being developed and purchase and renovate the property. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide paid employment for people with chronic mental illness will improve their standard of living and increase their buying power; provide jobs for an agricultural manager and support staff to manage the farm operations; provide revenue for Riverbend as they provide support services to clients to help them maintain and succeed in their employment; purchase a farm property and keeping it out of development and in agriculture; provide revenue to the UNH Cooperative Extension for consultation on farm operations; and sell farm products to the community.
Project Name: SAVE: Synthetic Automotive Virtual Environments
Recipient: Vehicle Control Training, LLC
Recipient Address: 758 Main Street, Franconia, New Hampshire 03580
Requested Amount: $5,735,000
Explanation of Project: This project will develop a cost-effective, validated, realistic synthetic driver training system for undeveloped surfaces in all weather. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will save lives, save a tremendous amount of money, enhance operational efficiency, and create 15 to 18 high-quality jobs and a sustainable business for the North Country.
Project Name: Simulation Equipment and Technology for Nursing and Allied Health Education
Recipient: White Mountains Community College and River Valley Community College
Recipient Address: 2020 Riverside Drive, Berlin, New Hampshire 03570 (WMCC) 1 College Drive, Claremont, New Hampshire 03743 (RVCC)
Requested Amount: $500,000
Explanation of Project: This project will purchase and deploy mobile simulation equipment, related instructional equipment, and technology and to provide program support to modernize the teaching of nursing and other allied health professions within the regions served by both colleges. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will help to strengthen the delivery of health care education in rural areas and will provide training-in-place for the current workforce in the more remote areas of the state.
Project Name: Sullivan County Mobility Project, Sullivan County, NH
Recipient: Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission
Recipient Address: 30 Bank Street, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03677
Requested Amount: $77,500
Explanation of Project: This project will create a service system to help consumers navigate the network of available transportation and mobility services in the Upper Valley region. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will create a more efficient transit service system that will assist the communities within Sullivan County, which are some of the poorest in the state, to provide free or low cost transportation to people currently having difficulty retaining employment due to transportation barriers.
Project Name: Suncook River Restoration Project
Recipient: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
Recipient Address: 29 Hazen Drive, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will restore a portion of the Suncook River in Epsom, New Hampshire in order to prevent future flooding, further damage to property, ecological resources, and water quality. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will serve as a test case to deal with large-scale flood events that are expected to become more common as the climate changes, and stabilizing the Suncook River will prevent erosion and flood damage to millions of dollars of downstream properties.
Project Name: Swimmer Detection Sonar Network for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Recipient: Scientific Solutions, Inc.
Recipient Address: 99 Perimeter Road, Nashua, New Hampshire 03063
Requested Amount: $5,870,000
Explanation of Project: This project will expand the Swimmer Detection Sonar Network and to perform research that could greatly enhance the system’s ability to detect, track, and classify swimmers. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide waterside protection for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and create jobs both in Nashua and eventually at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Project Name: TBI Supports for Veterans Program
Recipient: Community Services Council of New Hampshire
Recipient Address: 79 Sheep Davis Road, Concord, New Hampshire 03302
Requested Amount: $212,429
Explanation of Project: This project will develop a peer model to provide services and support for veterans who are returning from war with a traumatic brain injury and are having difficulty in adjusting to their return. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide assistance in helping veterans maximize their independence level in all areas of their lives in order to become more independent and at less risk of homelessness or needing a greater, more restrictive, and more costly level of services.
Project Name: Uncompensated Care Funding for New Hampshire’s Community Health Centers
Recipient: Bi-State Primary Care Association
Recipient Address: 3 South Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $800,000
Explanation of Project: This project will allow New Hampshire Community Health Centers and safety net providers to support medical, behavioral health and dental services due to the increased cost of caring for, and growing number of, uninsured and underinsured patients. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because NH CHCs and safety net providers are cost effective and save the state and health care system money by delivering high quality, low cost health services to vulnerable people and their communities.
Project Name: U.S. Route 3 Corridor (North), Concord, NH
Recipient: City of Concord
Recipient Address: 41 Green Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $1,890,000
Explanation of Project: This project will make improvements to U.S. Route 3 (North State Street, Fisherville Road and Village Street) from Penacook Street to the Boscawen town line include the construction of sidewalks and dedicated bike shoulders for multi-modal use. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide relief to a heavily traveled commercial and residential corridor as well as 120 anticipated new jobs.
Project Name: U.S. Route 3 Corridor (South), Concord, NH
Recipient: City of Concord
Recipient Address: 41 Green Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $6,679,797
Explanation of Project: This project will make improvements to U.S. Route 3 (Manchester Street) from Garvins Falls Road to the Pembroke Town Line include the construction of sidewalks and dedicated bike shoulders for multi-modal use. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will allow for greater viability of existing and future businesses, provide relief to a heavily traveled commercial and residential corridor, and create 60 new jobs in the short term with exponentially more with enhanced commercial growth due to the improvements.
Project Name: Vested for Growth Program
Recipient: New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
Recipient Address: 7 Wall Street, Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Requested Amount: $200,000
Explanation of Project: This project ensures long-term growth and success for small businesses and their employees in the state by providing quality jobs through business investment and pre-development loans to help companies that require more assistance to become growth ready. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because Vested for Growth helps New Hampshire businesses adopt new management practices that position the companies to gain a competitive advantage and result in engaged employees who share in the responsibility and rewards of growth.
Project Name: Warrior Final Phase Integration and Evaluation
Recipient: iRobot Corporation
Recipient Address: 8 Crosby Street, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730
Requested Amount: $4,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will productize the Warrior UGV and bring it to soldiers in the field. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will the number create jobs to secure the appropriate manufacturing speed for the robots which will be integrated and manufactured exclusively in Hudson, New Hampshire at Benchmark.
Project Name: Winnipesaukee River Basin Program UV Disinfection and Wastewater Treatment Plant Water System Upgrade
Recipient: New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Winnipesaukee River Basin Program
Recipient Address: 528 River Street, Franklin, New Hampshire 03235
Requested Amount: $4,470,000
Explanation of Project: This project will to expand ultra-violet (UV) light disinfection capabilities; replace the UV equipment with a more energy efficient, lower maintenance system; replace the inadequate, 30 year old plant water supply system with an appropriately sized, automated unit that will reduce energy consumption; construct the new building necessary to house the UV disinfection and plant water systems; and install the associated HVAC, mechanical, piping, and electrical systems. This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will assist with the elimination of sewage discharges into the Lakes Region’s lakes and rivers and the protection and development of expanded recreational and economic assets in central New Hampshire.
Project Name: 4th Generation Wireless
Recipient: BAE Systems, Inc.
Recipient Address: 95 Canal Street, Nashua, New Hampshire 03061
Requested Amount: $5,000,000
Explanation of Project: This project will facilitate the rapid development and fielding of advanced SIGINT/COMINT ground and airborne equipment that will provide the warfighter with a significant battlefield “detect, identify, and locate” advantage by depriving our adversaries their current “4G LTE technological safe haven.” This project is a valuable use of taxpayer dollars because it will improve the safety of U.S. and allied forces and increases their effectiveness on the battlefield.
