{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hirono.senate.gov/news/press-releases/hirono-secures-nearly-450-million-for-hawaii-in-federal-spending-bill", "Hirono Secures Nearly $450 Million for Hawaii in Federal Spending Bill", "2022-12-22", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "HI", "Mazie K. Hirono", "H001042", "www.hirono.senate.gov", "hirono", "https://www.hirono.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) voted to pass the Fiscal Year 2023 government spending bill, which includes nearly $450 million in earmarks, known as Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS), she secured for nonprofit organizations and government agencies in Hawaii. Senator Hirono secured CDS funding for projects in every county in Hawaii, including military construction projects, community health organizations, projects to support Native Hawaiian communities, and more. The spending bill passed the Senate by a vote of 68-29, and now heads to the House, where it is expected to pass and be sent to President Biden to be signed into law.\n\n\u201cThis funding bill invests in our communities, our country, and our national defense,\u201d said Senator Hirono. \u201cI\u2019m proud to have secured nearly $450 million in federal funding for projects across Hawaii as part of this bill. From protecting our environment, to strengthening our state\u2019s emergency management capabilities, to supporting community health organizations and more, these projects will benefit people and communities across our state. I look forward to seeing this bill signed into law and these funds put to good use for the people of Hawaii.\u201d\n\nA full list of the projects for which Senator Hirono secured CDS funding is below.\n\nSchofield Barracks - $111,000,000\n\nTo construct standard design Company Operations Facilities for four companies and Troop Aid Station.\n\nJoint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam - $103,350,000\n\nTo construct three box magazines for ordnance storage and improve perimeter security.\n\nMarine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) - $87,900,000\n\nTo provide the required enlisted personnel housing units to accommodate personnel stationed at MCBH.\n\nFort Shafter - $38,000,000\n\nTo provide a Potable Water System for Hawaii\u2019s Tripler Army Medical Center and for antiterrorism protection measures to enhance potable water system resiliency and security.\n\nFort Shafter - $33,000,000\n\nTo construct two potable water wells and one above ground water storage tank, and to replace infrastructure to increase well production, water storage capacity, and improve potable water quality.\n\nJoint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam - $20,000,000\n\nTo plan and design a Waterfront Production Facility that will bring light industrial productive capacity and shipboard worker services closer to the drydocks in a permanent and modern facility.\n\nCounty of Hawaii - $13,000,000\n\nTo provide facilities at Hilo Memorial Hospital for necessary community services.\n\nUniversity of Hawaii (UH), UH Cancer Center - $6,500,000\n\nTo support the construction of a new Early Phase Clinical Research Center (EPCRC) at the UH Cancer Center\u2019s Kakaako campus (Oahu), which will provide Hawaii\u2019s cancer patients and families with access to novel clinical trials that are currently only available on the U.S. mainland.\n\nKauai County Housing Agency - $5,000,000\n\nTo provide infrastructure for housing development in Hanapepe, Ele'ele, and Port Allen on Kauai.\n\nCity and County of Honolulu - $3,538,000\n\nTo provide stable, affordable housing to those with mental illness.\n\nHoahu Energy Cooperative Molokai - $3,000,000\n\nTo construct a solar power and battery energy storage system on Molokai that will be the first community-led, community-owned energy project on the island, displacing diesel generation.\n\nUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa - $2,250,000\n\nTo establish the Shoreline Equity and Adaptation Hub (SEA Hub) to understand shoreline communities\u2019 needs and develop equitable solutions to the challenge of adapting to sea level rise.\n\nDepartment of Water Supply, County of Hawaii - $2,080,000\n\nTo construct a deep well at a location that reduces the infrastructure required to bring high quality drinking water to the North Kona water system.\n\nMaikai Health Corporation, Hawaii Island - $2,000,000\n\nTo support the construction of a comprehensive health center site to provide a wide spectrum of out-patient services, including several that are not currently offered in the community.\n\nWaimanalo Health Center, Oahu - $2,000,000\n\nTo support the construction of an expansion facility that would provide oral health, vision, health promotion and disease prevention, cultural healing, and other comprehensive health services to the Waimanalo community.\n\nMaui County and Kauai County - $1,500,000\n\nTo prevent the extinction of Hawaii\u2019s critically endangered native forest birds by focusing on developing/scaling a new intervention to suppress invasive mosquitoes and reduce avian malaria infections for Hawaii\u2019s native forest birds.\n\nCounty of Maui - $1,400,000\n\nTo provide a new emergency operations center and security operations center with electrical, technological, audiovisual and security systems, and provide redundant power and communications systems.\n\nDaniel K. Inouye US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center - $1,215,000\n\nTo complete the facility\u2019s solar panel installation and roof design, and install a sidewalk for the insectary.\n\nDepartment of Public Works, County of Kauai - $1,200,000\n\nTo engineer and inspect the Wailua\u2014Kapaa sewer system serving as a prerequisite to sewer system expansion, ensuring system reliability to conform with State legislation to replace all cesspools in the state by 2050.\n\nAha Punana Leo (APL) - $1,126,000\n\nTo support the reaccreditation of Aha Punana Leo\u2019s (APL) statewide Hawaiian language medium early childhood education programs, providing for another 13-year indigenous early learning accreditation and allowing APL to seek mainstream recognition of this accreditation within the state of Hawaii.\n\nYWCA Hawaii Island - $1,102,000\n\nTo support an initiative to demonstrate the feasibility of breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma by healing trauma caused by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among new parents with multiple ACEs, and providing support to enable them to provide an ACE-free childhood for their young children.\n\nThe Nature Conservancy - $1,000,000\n\nTo empower local communities across Hawaii to co-manage coastal resources in partnership with NOAA, the State Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR), and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to restore healthy reefs and nearshore fisheries.\n\nDivision of Forestry and Wildlife, State of Hawaii - $1,000,000\n\nTo purchase equipment necessary to locate and remove species that prey on endangered plants and animals in priority areas.\n\nUniversity of Hawaii, Office of Indigenous Innovation - $1,000,000\n\nTo support the creation of an Indigenous Data Science Sector Development Initiative (IDSSDI), which would address the need for diversification of Hawaii\u2019s economy through the restoration of Indigenous agencies.\n\nHawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) - $850,000\n\nTo implement a collaborative effort to establish selected invasive pest-free areas for nursery production across Hawaii and implement post-harvest sanitization methods to reduce presence of regulatory pests on nursery products entering export markets.\n\nSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - $800,000\n\nTo renovate and repair facilities used to educate and engage with the community on Hawaiian bird conservation.\n\nKumano I Ke Ala o Makaweli, Kauai - $796,000\n\nTo support the development of K-12 school curriculum focused on natural resource management, traditional Hawaiian language and agriculture, and food production.\n\nMalama Aina Foundation - $765,000\n\nTo install 150 planter boxes at 50 K-12 schools and community organizations to provide full-scale, culturally-integrated agricultural K-12 STEM education for low-income students in underserved areas on Hawaii Island and Oahu.\n\nCity and County of Honolulu - $679,000\n\nTo take a cost-effective, resilient approach to managing storm water impacts by installing two types of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) to replace damaged and aging hardened storm drainage structures in the urban Honolulu area.\n\nParents and Children Together, Oahu - $550,000\n\nTo provide funding for afterschool and other out-of-school-time services (e.g., homework health, afterschool meals) for children and youth living in, and adjacent to, the Kuhio Park Terrace (Kalihi) and Puuwai Momi (Aiea) public housing communities.\n\nHale Kipa, Oahu - $500,000\n\nTo increase the community of parent leaders in Hawaii, create a parent leadership support group, and provide parent specific support through skill building, leadership, and coaching; will establish a community based behavioral health clinic and assessment center, offering individual parenting skill and parent leadership classes to the community at large.\n\nMalama Kauai - $492,000\n\nTo construct a food hub facility to serve the surrounding community.\n\nSusannah Wesley Community Center, Oahu - $325,000\n\nTo convene representatives from various Native Hawaiian organizations to develop a strategy to increase intervention and prevention efforts related to the sexual exploitation of Native Hawaiian children, and develop culturally appropriate human trafficking awareness training curricula and materials for stakeholder groups within the Native Hawaiian community, including parents, youth (ages 12-18), schools, and healthcare practitioners.\n\nKalamapii PLAY School, Hawaii Island - $197,000\n\nTo create a pilot program serving 70 preschool-aged students in Hilo, Hawaii that combines therapy with preschool play to focus on collective learning and recovery from trauma.\n\nThe Legal Clinic, Oahu - $120,000\n\nTo offer immigration law internships for Hawaii-based law students and training for legal practitioners culminating in a Criminal Immigration Seminar in the fall of 2023.\n\nDepartment of Water Supply, County of Hawaii - $80,000\n\nTo replace large, under-registering meters to customers that use significant amounts of water, resulting in proper billing to customers and providing accurate data to reduce water loss.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hirono.senate.gov/news/press-releases/hirono-secures-nearly-450-million-for-hawaii-in-federal-spending-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7542269304394722, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}