Arkansas projects included in the omnibus spending bill that passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday are: $7,759,000 for the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center in Little Rock $4,642,000 for the Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in Stuttgart $62,494,000 for the National Center for Toxicology Research in Jefferson County $2,976,000 for the Harry K. Dupree Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center $2,579,000 for the Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center at Booneville $1,800,000 for the National Agricultural Library Agricultural Law Program in Fayetteville $1,502,000 for the Poultry Production and Products Safety Research Unit in Fayetteville $1,424,000 for the Lower Mississippi River Basin Program in Jonesboro $1,000,000 for Sustainable Water Use Research at Arkansas State University $550,000 for Senator Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge Language is included to support all current fi sh hatcheries, including Greers Ferry and Norfork, and ensure that none of them can be closed. The bill does not say how much money Arkansas’ hatcheries will receive.

$40,000,000 for a Rural Utilities Service Loan for Bayou Meto and Grand Prairie $47,300,000 for the C-130 avionics modernization program. Some of this funding will be used to modernize C-130s, which operate at Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville.

$58,015,000 for Mississippi River channel improvement (Arkansas and six states split this amount) $22,829,000 Mississippi River levees (Arkansas and six states split this amount) $28,558,000 for operation and maintenance of the Mc-Clellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System $287,000 for operation and maintenance of the Lower Arkansas River, North Bank $193,000 for operation and maintenance of Lower Arkansas River, South Bank $8,479,000 for operation and maintenance of Mississippi River levees (Arkansas and six states split this amount) $5,900,000 for operation and maintenance of the St.

Francis Basin in Arkansas and Missouri $1,839,000 for operation and maintenance of the Tensas Basin, Boeuf and Tensas Rivers in Arkansas and Louisiana $1,142,000 for operation and maintenance of the White River Backwater $7,187,000 for operation and maintenance of Beaver Lake $7,938,000 for operation and maintenance of Blakely Mountain Dam $1,909,000 for operation and maintenance of Blue Mountain Lake$11,564,000 for operation and maintenance of Bull Shoals Lake $7,750,000 for operation and maintenance of Dardanelle Lock and Dam $5,637,000 for operation and maintenance of DeGray Lake $1,902,000 for operation and maintenance of De Queen Lake $1,586,000 for operation and maintenance of Dierks Lake $1,735,000 for operation and maintenance of Gillham Lake $7,405,000 for operation and maintenance of Greers Ferry Lake $2,706,000 for operation and maintenance of Millwood Lake $5,841,000 for operation and maintenance of Narrows Dam and Lake Greeson $2,016,000 for operation and maintenance of Nimrod Lake $8,148,000 for operation and maintenance of Norfork Lake $9,786,000 for operation and maintenance of the Ouachita and Black Rivers in Arkansas and Louisiana $6,287,000 for operation and maintenance of Ozark-Jeta Taylor Lock and Dam $31,000 for operation and maintenance of the White River $15,000 for operation and maintenance of Osceola Harbor $3,000 for operation and maintenance of Yellow Bend Port

Front Section, Pages 9 on 01/17/2014