Below are Congressman Bonner’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations requests. These projects have not received funding but have only been submitted to the Committee on Appropriations for consideration.
It is worth noting that in fiscal year 2009, Congressman Bonner received 129 requests totaling $542 million. Of those requests, Congressman Bonner submitted 25 requests (listed and described below) totaling $295 million, for consideration in only 8 of the 12 appropriations bills.
AL Regional Sanitary Sewer Repairs, Alabama Gulf Coast Regional Sewer Supply District
To enhance sewer systems in low income areas that will reduce sanitary sewer overflow posing economic, public health and environmental concerns; will further a regional system concept benefiting the greater metropolitan Mobile area as well as Alabama’s Gulf Coast.
Atmore, AL Municipal Airport, City of Atmore, Alabama
To enhance and rehabilitate airport runway lights, correct grading violations in the safety zone, and construct an additional access road to the airport from US HWY 31.
Auburn University Bioenergy and Bioproducts Laboratory, Auburn University
To enhance the nation’s energy security by researching and developing renewable fuel from non-food biomass that is both locally grown and sustainable.
Brewton, AL Flood Waters Management, City of Brewton, Alabama
To construct a drainage system, preventing flood waters from collecting in an area surrounding a public school, where flooding currently poses a threat to schoolchildren and citizens in the area.
Coosa-Alabama River Lakes project, U.S. Corps of Engineers, Mobile District
To continue operation and maintenance of the Coosa-Alabama and to ensure the river operates at authorized widths and depths so it will be able to accommodate fully-loaded barges and other shipping traffic.
Disaster Medical Training Center, University of South Alabama
To establish a center in south Alabama to train health professionals from around the Gulf Coast in the unique skills and preparedness issues accompanying large-scale disasters, such as hurricanes.
Emerging Technologies Radiotherapy, University of South Alabama
To purchase advanced cancer treatment equipment for the Mitchell Cancer Institute, the only research state university-based cancer center along the upper Gulf Coast, an area with cancer infection and fatality rates higher than the national average.
Employment and Education Training, Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind
For a statewide employer training and job development program for the deaf, blind, and deaf-blind citizens of Alabama to compete in a rapidly growing regional labor market.
Fourteen Mile Bridge in Mobile, AL, United States Coast Guard
To complete funding for replacement of a 14 mile railroad bridge previously declared for alteration by the United States Coast Guard, which is a navigational and safety hazard as well as an impediment to efficient shipping.
Gulf Coast Flood Elevation Study, Baldwin County, Baldwin County Commission
To update and expand current FEMA flood maps, which were not adequately updated post-Hurricane Katrina, for this Gulf-front county in order to ensure proper rebuilding and new construction in this region which will see record growth over the next 5 years.
Gulf Coast Flood Elevation Study, Mobile County, Mobile County Commission
To update and expand current FEMA flood maps, which were not adequately updated post-Hurricane Katrina, for this Gulf-front county in order to ensure proper rebuilding and new construction in this region which will see record growth over the next 5 years.
Historic Blakely Park, Spanish Fort, Alabama, Historic Blakely Authority
To prevent further damage and mitigate past deterioration at this civil war battlefield and National Historic Register Site, which also serves as a training area for the Alabama National Guard.
Law Enforcement Technology, Gulf Shores, AL, City of Gulf Shores, Alabama
To provide wireless communications to police vehicles and provide security cameras to public beaches along this Gulf-front city, which has seen felony arrests double in the last year and population swell from 7,000 to 100,000 on weekends in the spring and summer months.
Low Cost Multi-Channel Camera System, United States Navy
To design, assemble and demonstrate a small LCMCS under the oversight of US Naval Air Station to detect, track and identify submarines and marine mammals threatened as a result of Naval testing of active acoustic systems.
Mobile Harbor, Alabama State Port Authority
To operate and maintain the 10th largest US port ensuring adequate harbor width and depth to accommodate ships and barges, annually handling over 59,000,000 tons of cargo and serving Alabama and southeast industries.
Mobile Harbor Turning Basin, Alabama State Port Authority
To construct a ship turning basin at the 10th largest US port, to help serve a new container terminal, coal terminal and two raw material terminals; a high benefit-to-cost ratio of this project ensures its national benefit.
New Construction: United States Courthouse, Mobile, Alabama
To complete funding for construction of a new federal courthouse, designated among the top 5 construction needs of the federal judiciary, to replace an unsafe, insecure, and inadequate 1932 structure.
Runway 18/36 and Taxiway Rehabilitation, Mobile, Alabama, Mobile Airport Authority
To rehabilitate a runway and taxiway at the Mobile Regional Airport correcting safety hazards and improving strength to support the type of aircraft that will taxi to the aircraft maintenance and assembly complex.
Sand Management Study, Perdido Pass, AL, City of Orange Beach, Alabama
To fund a study to be used with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to implement recommended improvements to sand disposal along its interior shoreline in order to help protect the tens of millions of dollars the city itself recently invested to renourish and protect its Gulf-front and interior shorelines, often hit by hurricanes.
Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne LiDAR Survey Systems, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District
To provide coastal mapping and charting along the Gulf Coast to reflect changes due to recent hurricanes and to serve as a part of a master program for US emergency preparedness and response.
Team Focus Youth Mentoring Program, Team Focus, Inc.
To help support a year-round leadership training and mentoring program as well as summer camps in 7 states focused on risks faced by young men without fathers; Team Focus is a faith-based non-profit organization headquartered in Mobile, Alabama.
US HWY 43 Main, Jackson, Alabama, City of Jackson, Alabama
To upgrade a water/sewer main along US HWY 43 from Jackson to Grove Hill, Alabama to provide clean drinking water for these rural communities and to support economic development of the area.
US HWY 43 Lighting, Thomasville, Alabama, City of Thomasville, Alabama
To install lighting to help ensure safety along a stretch of US Highway 43 which has seen rapid commercial growth - including 24 hour, 7 days a week log truck traffic in the vicinity of local schools.
West Alabama Autism Outreach, University of Alabama
To expand the University’s Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Research Clinic and help establish a regional treatment, education, and research center serving the needs of rural and underserved west Alabama families, who are among 30,000 people struggling with ASD in Alabama.
Zerometh Methamphetamine Campaign, Mobile, Alabama, Alabama District Attorneys Association, Prosecution Services
To allow statewide deployment of the only meth awareness public health campaign in Alabama targeting teens and young adults in a state that is home to the most meth incidents among Gulf Coast states and that has seen an increase in local Mexican DTO trafficking of a more pure form of meth known as “ice.”