{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=77BFD05B-D57C-477B-B290-1798AF7F611F", "Graham Announces South Carolina Projects in Year End Spending Bill", "2022-12-21", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today announced the South Carolina projects that were included in the year-end spending bill set to be debated and voted on in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate this week.\n\nGraham made these funding requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee, a committee on which he serves.\n\nAmong the South Carolina funding included in the legislation:\n\nAiken (City): $4.5 million for water treatment system upgrades.\n\nAiken \u2013 Rural Health Services: $422,000 for facilities and equipment to improve health care access.\n\nAiken County: $413,000 to purchase updated firefighting equipment.\n\nAiken County: $5 million for wastewater treatment plant expansion.\n\nAnderson \u2013 Restoration Project Foundation: $650,000 to develop and implement curriculum.\n\nBeaufort (City): $800,000 for storm water management.\n\nBeaufort-Jasper YMCA of the Lowcountry: $1.5 million for facility improvements.\n\nCalhoun County: $10.511 million for water infrastructure expansion.\n\nCayce: $858,000 to upgrade police equipment.\n\nCharleston (City): $200,000 to conduct a feasibility study to mitigate the effects of tidal and inland flooding in the Charleston area.\n\nCharleston (City): $13.325 million for preconstruction, engineering, and design to protect against severe storms and storm surge impacts at the Charleston Peninsula.\n\nCheraw: $423,000 for water plant improvements.\n\nClemson: $2.629 million for public infrastructure improvements.\n\nClemson University: $6 million to improve student health care delivery.\n\nColumbia International University: $915,000 for nursing education program and equipment.\n\nFolly Beach: $500,000 to mitigate extensive shoreline erosion due to severe storms.\n\nFrancis Marion University: $1.09 million for equipment for science, health care, and engineering.\n\nGreenville \u2013 MetroConnects: $4 million for sewer system upgrades.\n\nGreenville \u2013 REWA Renewable Water Resources: $6.3 million to construct wastewater infrastructure sewer and pumping station upgrades in Greenville County.\n\nGreenville Water: $5.4 million for transmission main line upgrades.\n\nHorry County: $22 million for an interchange extension.\n\nKershaw County Family YMCA: $1.1 million to develop a child care center and training facility.\n\nKingstree (Town): $4.6 million for park infrastructure.\n\nLimestone University: $700,000 campus safety equipment.\n\nLaurens County: $14.552 million for road safety improvements.\n\nLexington (Town): $2.275 million to acquire updated technology for the police department.\n\nMarine Corps Air Station Beaufort: $900,000 to plan and design a new fuel pier.\n\nMarine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island: $75.9 million for the replacement of recruit barracks.\n\nMarine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island: $4.8 million to plan and design a new dental clinic.\n\nMedical University of South Carolina: $6.25 million for facilities and equipment to improve cancer care.\n\nMount Pleasant: $10 million for reimbursement to the state of South Carolina for harbor deepening. The state pre-funded harbor deepening in an effort to accelerate the timeline and ensure the project was not delayed waiting on annual federal appropriations.\n\nMount Pleasant: $5.677 million for drainage resilience.\n\nMount Pleasant \u2013 Enough is Enough: $960,000 to conduct online exploitation prevention.\n\nNorth Charleston \u2013 Carolina Youth Development Center: $361,000 to enhance security.\n\nPendleton: $5.3 million for wastewater treatment plant expansion.\n\nPickens Regional Joint Water: $4 million for a water treatment plant.\n\nPiedmont Technical College: $256,000 to improve student outcomes and increase graduation rates.\n\nRoper St. Francis Hospital: $6.475 million for facilities and equipment to improve oncology care.\n\nRoper St. Francis Hospital: $3.775 million to increase access to health care.\n\nSumter (City): $510,000 to upgrade their ballistic evidence system.\n\nSouth Carolina Emergency Management: $7.5 million for facility upgrades and modernization.\n\nTri-County Technical College: $1.211 million for an automotive training center.\n\nUniversity of South Carolina Aiken: $830,000 for equipment for STEM program.\n\nUniversity of South Carolina Beaufort: $1 million for facilities and equipment improvements to nursing simulation center.\n\nUniversity of South Carolina Lancaster: $110,000 for facilities and equipment to improve health care education.\n\nUniversity of South Carolina School of Law: $950,000 for Rule of Law curriculum development.\n\nUniversity of South Carolina: $2.505 million for facilities and equipment to improve stroke research and care.\n\nUniversity of South Carolina: $4.5 million for facilities and equipment to create a shared biomedical research core.\n\nUniversity of South Carolina: $7.75 million for facilities and equipment to enhance clinical diagnosis and care for persons with Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias.\n\nWalterboro \u2013 Genesis Health Care: $1 million to improve the delivery of health care.\n\nOther notable funding items related to South Carolina organizations and institutions included in the legislation:\n\n$1.2 Billion for Plutonium Pit Production at Savannah River Site: Allows for the continued construction on the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) project to achieve a production capability of at least 50 pits per year within South Carolina consistent with the NNSA\u2019s recommended alternative for pit production. This advances our nation\u2019s nuclear capability to counter threats like Russian and China.\n\n$71.764 Million for Surplus Plutonium Disposition at Savannah River Site: The Surplus Plutonium Disposition (SPD) project will add additional glovebox capacity at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to accelerate plutonium dilution and aid in the removal of plutonium from South Carolina.\n\n$12.137 Million for Savannah River Site Community and Regulatory Support: The Atomic Energy Act authorizes payments to communities to help offset losses in property taxes due to the presence of non-taxable federal lands within their boundaries. This critical funding is used in a variety of ways in South Carolina, including supporting public schools.\n\n$10.5 Million for Procurement and Industrial Base Protection. This request supports the production of the M240 machine gun in Columbia. Without additional procurement funding, the M240 line would be at risk and restarting the line in the future creates an unacceptable risk to American warfighters.\n\n#####", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:06Z"]], "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.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=77BFD05B-D57C-477B-B290-1798AF7F611F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9442861191928387, "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"}