Under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi and Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, the New Direction Congress has created unprecedented rules for transparency of projects sponsored by Members of Congress. Under new rules created in 2007, it is required that each bill must be accompanied by a list identifying projects and the Member of Congress who made each request. Those lists have been made available online before any floor votes. In the House, each project on the list is accompanied by a public letter from the requesting Member identifying the project, the entity that will receive the funds and their address, a description of the project, and a certification that neither the requesting member nor their spouse will benefit from it financially.

Beginning with Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations bills, the 111th Congress mandated additional requirements for expanded transparency. In order to increase the time available for public scrutiny of funding decisions, lists identifying each project and the requesting Member will be made available the same day the relevant Subcommittee reports each bill rather than when the Full Appropriations Committee acts. Each request will be subjected to further scrutiny by the Executive Branch, with each agency being given 20 days to check that proposed projects are eligible for funding and meet goals established in law. In addition, all Members of Congress are now required to post information listing all requested projects on their Member web sites at the time the request is made, explaining the purpose of the project and why it is a valuable use of taxpayer funds.

Below are Speaker Pelosi's community funding requests for appropriations bills FY 2010. These projects include $34,370,000 in requests made by the Mayor or District Attorney of San Francisco to meet high priority local needs. In addition, a large portion of the funding requested by Speaker Pelosi is for Army Corps of Engineer projects. The Army Corps' work is essential for the operation, maintenance and protection of San Francisco Bay. Specifically, these ongoing projects are necessary for infrastructure, dredging and wetlands restoration activities that allow commercial, transit and recreational vessels to utilize the Bay while protecting vulnerable ecosystems. These are authorized projects that are typically included as part of the President's annual budget proposal and it is common for Members of Congress with significant Army Corps activities in their districts to request funds for the continuation of those critical activities.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE

Bay Area Public Safety Interoperable Communications Initiative
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 1011 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Amount: $750,000
The San Francisco Bay Area Public Safety Interoperable Communications Initiative is a collaboration between all public safety and emergency service agencies within the 10 Bay Area Counties, which have 7 million residents and approximately 16 million annual visitors, and include 3 major cities (San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose), 3 major airports, the Muni and BART transportation systems, 3 major ports, major research and educational facilities, 70 major chemical and petro-chemical facilities, and the Hetch-Hetchy water system that serves 2.4 million residential, commercial and industrial customers. In addition, the area is traversed by 8 major earthquake faultlines. The initiative will create a wireless voice and data communications system and provide state of the art wireless communication devices for first responders within all participating agencies, allowing public safety officials across the entire Bay Area to communicate seamlessly during a disaster. This capability is essential because major disasters will be regional - not isolated in one jurisdiction. First responders must be able to communicate across disciplines and across jurisdictions in order to effectively respond to a disaster and protect the public. Federal funding is requested for the purchase of capital equipment needed in the City and County of San Francisco to meet the goals of the initiative, which will take a phased approach for deployment, focusing on the urban areas first, with the goal to connect the entire region by 2012.

California Academy of Sciences Research Center
Recipient: California Academy of Sciences
Address: 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118
Amount: $500,000
The California Academy of Sciences is a natural history museum, state-of-the-art planetarium and renowned aquarium located in Golden Gate Park. Funds are requested to establish a Global Center for Microlife Research and Public Education, which would include a major research center, public exhibitions and K-12 student education, and teacher training programs about microlife and its central relationship to ecology, sustainability, human survival, the emergence of life on Earth and the likelihood of discovering life on other planets. Specifically, federal funds would be used to develop ongoing research partnerships with NASA Ames on Astrobiology research and education, exhibits explaining NASA research and related educational materials.

California Bay Watershed Education & Training Program
Recipient: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Education
Address: 299 Foam Street, Monterey, CA 93940
Amount: $2,500,000
The California Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program was established to increase environmental stewardship and appreciation of the watershed and marine environment through environmental education for students, teachers and communities in specific watersheds. To date, the California B-WET program has educated 32,000 students, 7000 teachers and 1000 adults about local watersheds, the marine environment, and the connection between local actions and global issues. Federal funds are provided through a competitive grant process to eligible organizations covering the San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay and Santa Barbara Channel watersheds to fund hands-on learning about the ocean and coastal environment. Independent evaluators have found B-WET to be effective at increasing the stewardship ethic of youth. Additionally, research concluded that associated training is successful at increasing teachers' use of experiential learning to teach about the watershed in their classroom. Requested funds will allow the California B-WET Program to continue educating students and teachers in areas associated with the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Exploratorium, Earth Observatory
Recipient: Exploratorium
Address: 3601 Lyon St. San Francisco, CA 94123-1099
Amount: $750,000
The development of new and effective models for science teacher development and public understanding of science meets a critical need in the country and is a key part of the Innovation Agenda. As part of the critical investments being made in developing solutions to climate change, it is especially important to invest in efforts to strengthen the public's understanding of climate research. The Exploratorium is part museum and part educational research laboratory, and has a long history of support for science education through its teacher professional development program. The Exploratorium proposes to develop, in collaboration with NOAA, a public Earth Observatory at its new location being developed on the Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco. This observatory will showcase the research of NOAA and provide an opportunity for public engagement and education. In addition, the Earth Observatory would take advantage of our unique new location on San Francisco Bay and its deep water docking capability to accommodate ocean going research vessels. Federal funds would be used to develop and produce the infrastructure, exhibits and programs related to NOAA's oceanographic and atmospheric research.

San Francisco Job Training, Substance Abuse and Transitional Housing Reentry Center
Recipient: San Francisco District Attorney's Office
Address: 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Amount: $750,000
Reentry initiatives focus on breaking the cycle of crime. Helping offenders successfully reenter their communities is especially important given California's overcrowded prison system. The San Francisco DA's office is developing a Reentry Center which will serve male state prisoners being released to San Francisco. The Center will provide intensive programs to address barriers to successful reentry, including substance abuse counseling and treatment, job training and education, and life skills. Upon release, participants will work with case managers for one year to implement their reentry plan. They will also appear regularly in a specialized Reentry Court, where their progress will be assessed. It is estimated that as many as 50 percent of offenders who are reentering into urban centers are homeless, and another 80 percent have histories of substance abuse, both of which put them at significant risk for reoffending. Federal funds are requested for post-release services related to these needs, including transitional housing and substance abuse treatment recovery beds.

San Francisco Police Gunshot Notification Center
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlette Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
Amount: $750,000
San Francisco has started to implement a gunshot location system in high crime areas in the Western Addition and Bayview neighborhoods. The existing system, which currently covers 3.3 square miles, is reporting actual gunfire at a rate 364 percent greater than what is reported by citizens. Generally, dispatchers and police officers are alerted by the system to gunfire activity within 10 seconds of the actual occurrence, allowing for medical services to be rendered more quickly, improving the likelihood of apprehending the offenders and assisting in the identification of evidence critical to the prosecution of those offenders. Funds are requested to cover the cost of acquiring and installing an expansion of the system to cover Visitacion Valley, Sunnydale and the Tenderloin, bringing the total covered area to 12 square miles.

Support Services For At-Risk Children, Project Avary
Recipient: Project Avary (Alternative Ventures to At-Risk Youth)
Address: 385 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. Suite G, Novato, CA 94949
Amount: $125,000
As a result of the growing prison population, a large underserved population of children of prisoners is also growing. Children of incarcerated parents are more likely to become involved in gangs, engage in violent behavior or experience incarceration sometime during their lifetimes. Project Avary provides a graduated continuum of activities for these children and teens to address their mental health needs. Funds are requested to add a clinical social worker and support the development of a teen training institute that prepares older teens for transition to independence. An additional clinical social worker would increase capacity for mental health assessments and therapeutic approaches for children who manifest childhood trauma following a parent's incarceration. The proposed teen training institute would provide instruction on filing taxes, determining career and academic interests, and acquiring various skills related to money such as balancing money management.

DEFENSE

Antiviral Medicine Research
Recipient: Prosetta Bioconformatics, Inc
Address: 670 5th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Amount: $3,000,000
Prior federal support has led to the discovery of a new class of antiviral drugs that can be used for defense against viral biowarfare agents and for therapies against other viral diseases such as Hepatitis C, HIV and Influenza, which pose a staggering cost to our society. These antivirals have minimal side effects and are active against entire viral families with certain characteristics. This makes development of a rapid first line of defense against existing and emerging/engineered viruses possible. Additional federal funding is requested to hire more scientific personnel and to explore chemical modifications of previously identified broadly active compounds to target proteins involved in additional viruses of interest to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) because of their potential for use in biowarfare. Funds would also be used to demonstrate efficacy of active compounds via in vitro and animal trials. Once this efficacy data has been generated, the promising compounds can be advanced via commercial pharmaceutical funding or BARDA funding.

Environmental Cleanup of Hunters Point Shipyard
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: City Hall, Room 448, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
Amount: $9,000,000
Since its closure in 1974 the Hunters Point Shipyard has been a neglected and contaminated neighbor to the Bayview/Hunters Point community. Concurrently, rates of prostate cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer and asthma have increased in this portion of the City. The City and County of San Francisco has been working for more than 15 years to transform the former Hunters Point Shipyard into a source of jobs and economic development, parks and affordable housing for the Bayview Hunters Point Community. While a programmatic redevelopment plan has been in place for the Shipyard since 1997, actual reuse depends on the Navy completing the remediation and transfer of the land. Based on the progress that we collectively made around the Conveyance Agreement in 2004, Parcel A was successfully transferred to the City in 2005 and construction of the first phase of development on the Shipyard started immediately thereafter. Funds from the FY09 Defense appropriations bill will be used for environmental remediation in two of three utility corridors at the site, as well as Parcel D-1 and Parcel C. Additional FY10 funds are requested for Parcel E and UC-3 (the remaining utility corridor). The more quickly remediation is completed, the more quickly this redevelopment area will become an economically productive center in the region.

Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center
Recipient: Presidio Trust
Address: 34 Graham Street, San Francisco, CA 94129
Amount: $1,000,000
Through collaboration with the Presidio Trust and National Park Service, the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) has completed conceptual plans to rehabilitate the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Historic Learning Center at Building 640. It will serve as a public education center that preserves the site of the Army's first language school in 1941 and memorializes the heroic contributions of the MIS linguist soldiers of World War II. The 10,000 square foot facility will showcase a permanent and rotating exhibition area featuring a mock-up classroom and barracks, and displays from a growing Japanese American Military collection of over 10,000 historical artifacts, documents and objects. This archive will provide research opportunities for visiting students and university faculty. In addition, the space will feature an audio-visual theater for showcasing films, videos, lectures, and performances. The Presidio Trust and NJAHS are in the process of formalizing their partnership through a cooperative agreement that will designate the Presidio Trust as master developer of building 640. The Trust's mandate to make the Presidio financially self-supporting means that there are limited funds available for non-revenue generating projects. The requested federal funding would allow the Trust to rehabilitate building 640 without jeopardizing the Trust's ability to reach financial self-sufficiency.

Military Personnel HIV Prevention
Recipient: J. David Gladstone Institutes
Address: 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
Amount: $3,000,000
The Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology is a world renowned research institute that conducts a full-range of basic and clinical research on HIV and AIDS. American troops deployed to areas of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa and Asia face an increased risk of exposure to the HIV virus. Targeted research into prevention of infection, treatment and cures is needed to reduce this threat to U.S. military personnel, protect U.S. military readiness and decrease treatment costs for the DoD health infrastructure. Gladstone proposes funding to develop a novel HIV prevention strategy based on inhibiting a naturally occurring enhancer of HIV viral activity. Specifically, this project would focus on new approaches for attacking SEVI (semen enhancer of viral infectivity), including studying how certain males are "super-producers" of SEVI and may be more vulnerable to HIV infection and more likely to spread HIV to others after becoming infected. The identification of protease inhibitors capable of blocking SEVI formation could greatly decrease HIV transmission since SEVI exerts such important enhancing effects.

Navy Drydock #1 Remediation and Disposal
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: Port of San Francisco, Pier 1, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111
Amount: $3,000,000
The shipbuilding operations at Pier 70 in San Francisco were among the biggest producers of military vessels in the United States for World War II. Integral to that operation were the drydocks. Drydock #1 was built to Navy specifications in 1942 and contains a range of hazardous materials, including asbestos, lead-based paint and PCB's. Its continued presence along the San Francisco waterfront, adjacent to a federal channel, threatens a release of these materials to the environment. The contamination in Drydock #1 is a result of Navy operations prior to 1987, when the Port took possession. Most of the hazardous materials in the vessel date to when the drydock was constructed. These materials must be remediated before the vessel can be disposed of. Federal funding is requested for 1) abatement of the hazardous materials inherent to the design of the vessel, which was built to Navy specifications for Navy work in 1942, and 2) a pro-rata share of the cost of demolishing the vessel, equal to the proportion of the time the drydock was used in the service of the Navy (75%). The drydock is currently berthed at San Francisco's Pier 80, which is preventing other usage of that berth, and lessening the Port's capacity for berthing large vessels.

Neuropsychiatric Trauma in U.S. Combat Troops
Recipient: Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE)
Address: 4150 Clement St., 151NC, San Francisco, CA 94121
Amount: $6,250,000
NCIRE is a non-profit corporation established to support medical research conducted at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The DoD/VA/NCIRE Neuroscience Center of Excellence is dedicated to support research targeted to the diagnosis, prevention and management of neuropsychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), neurodegenerative diseases, traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries that occur in U.S. war fighters. It the only such center in the United States dedicated solely to brain imaging in support of research on neurological diseases and conditions that affect active military personnel and veterans. This Center of Excellence has become a national resource for research in neuroimaging biomarkers for PTSD, traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative diseases; biomarker and co-morbidity and risk factor assessments for PTSD; promoting neuronal growth and minimizing inflammation from head trauma; and treatment development studies responding to these conditions experienced by service members and veterans. Continued funding for the Center will support new and ongoing research projects related to PTSD and traumatic brain injury. Specifically, funding would advance work to develop methods for early detection of neurological disorders and to improve diagnosis and identify effective treatments and methods of disease prevention, including biomarkers related to risk factors associated with neurological disorders.

Presidio San Francisco Military Heritage Center
Recipient: Presidio Trust
Address: 34 Graham Street, San Francisco, CA 94129
Amount: $5,000,000
The Presidio Officers' Club, located at the site of the historic Spanish El Presidio, has been the center of military life at the post under three nations - beginning in 1776 with the Spanish "presidio," through Mexican occupation and then as the United States' most important strategic command in the west from 1846 to 1994. The Heritage Center at the Officers' Club will introduce visitors to a series of exhibits, digital media, classrooms and programs about the Presidio and its role in the development of the American West. Exhibition space will display permanent and changing exhibits and a small theater will feature an orientation film. The Heritage Center will serve approximately 300,000 visitors a year. Requested funds are for rehabilitation of the Officers' Club, which will employ green building practices to achieve a LEED Silver rating, and development of the Heritage Center.

Reducing Chronic Disease in Military Personnel
Recipient: Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Address: 900 Bridgeway, Suite 1; Sausalito, California 94965
Amount: $1,500,000
The Preventative Medicine Research Institute (PMRI) in Sausalito, CA has conducted a series of groundbreaking clinical research trials that demonstrate how comprehensive lifestyle changes can reverse the progression of the most prevalent chronic diseases, including heart disease and prostate cancer. In total, these diseases account for more than 75 percent of health care costs. Funds are requested to make this proven program of lifestyle changes available to members of the U.S. Department of Defense and their families throughout the world using new online technologies. This program would use the latest in artificial intelligence and personalization technology to help participants customize a way of eating and living right for them based on their own needs, genes and preferences. This would include a nutrition plan, exercise program and stress management techniques, and would provide all of the online tools and resources needed to make and maintain these comprehensive lifestyle changes. Specifically, federal funds would be used to pay for engineers, software developers, graphic artists, scientists, physicians, nurses, stress management specialists, registered dietitians, exercise physiologists and clinical psychologists who will work together as a team to develop this online program.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation
Recipient: The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, Columbia University Medical Center: Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease and PTC Therapeutics, Inc
Address: 888 7th Avenue, Suite 400, New York, NY 10019
Amount: $3,000,000
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disease with known treatment targets, but no currently available therapy. The SMA Foundation addresses this unmet need. Working with the Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease (MNC) at Columbia University, the Foundation has used previous DoD funding to undertake new studies aimed at understanding and treating the loss of muscle activity. Requested funds would be used for ongoing studies focused on the mechanisms which lead certain muscles and motor neurons to be spared in all patients with SMA with the hope that a protective mechanism identified in these tissues will lead to therapeutic strategies capable of increasing the strength of muscles attacked by SMA. Because SMA research focuses on dying neurons, how to keep them alive and how to stimulate them to regenerate, discoveries in this area have applications in the treatment of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries relevant to the treatment of combat personnel serving in the Armed Forces.

University of San Francisco, School of Nursing Advancement
Recipient: University of San Francisco
Address: 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Amount: $2,000,000
The nursing shortage in California is even more acute than in the rest of the nation. Additional capacity for nurses to earn advanced degrees will increase the number of nurses qualified to serve as faculty at institutions training new nurses. USF currently offers both a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and Master's of Science in Nursing (MSN). Funds are requested for equipment and construction costs associated with a new simulation center designed to replicate a hospital environment and provide hands-on learning opportunities for nursing students. Simulation scenarios will be developed and implemented for all students in order to prepare them to address national patient safety goals and improve the quality of patient care outcomes. The simulation center would also be used in partnership with community first-responders to create a disaster support training facility in which nursing faculty, students, and others participate in Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support Training.

ENERGY & WATER

Energy Efficient Fort Mason Center
Recipient: Fort Mason Center
Address: Landmark Building A, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA 94123
Amount: $2,000,000
In collaboration with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Fort Mason Center operates the retired US Army West Coast Port of Embarkation (a National Historic Landmark) as a center for Culture, Education and Recreation. As the first adaptive re-use of a former military installation Fort Mason Center remains a national standard for historic preservation, urban planning, sustainable business practices, non profit support and incubation, and performing arts excellence. Located on the Northwest side of the San Francisco waterfront including ten buildings and three piers, Fort Mason Center leases space to 24 non profit organizations, including five theatres, four museums and internationally renowned Green's restaurant in support of its mission and hosts over 15,000 special events, performances and meetings in 130,000 sq ft of space to non-profit, corporate and individual clients each year. Serving over 1.7 million patrons annually Fort Mason Center is nationally recognized as a "best practices" model for successful base conversion and non profit sustainability. The 96 year old Pier 2 houses the Cowell Theater in the north end, the Cowell gallery/corridor and the Herbst Pavilion. In 2005, the NPS/GGNRA completed a successful seismic upgrade of the Pier 2 sub structure in preparation for additional rehabilitation work. This project specifically incorporates sustainable design and construction strategies consistent with LEED Silver (or better) certification, in addition to an expansive use of solar and wind energy in a historically sensitive context within a densely populated urban environment. Funds are requested for costs associated with this next phase of the restoration including repairs related to sustainability and energy efficiency, as well as seismic safety and patron access.

Hamilton Army Airfield Wetland Restoration
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
Address: 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1398
Amount: $14,000,000
This project, which is linked to the Oakland Harbor Navigation Improvement project, allows for essential dredging of ports and harbors and for reuse of the dredged material for wetlands restoration at Hamilton Army Airfield. This wetlands restoration project advances the economic and environmental goals cooperatively established by Bay Area stakeholders in the Long Term Management Strategy. This project is authorized by WRDA 99.

Oakland Harbor Navigation Improvement
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
Address: 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1398
Amount: $8,000,000
The Oakland Harbor is the second largest port on the West Coast and the fifth largest container port in the nation. This project would deepen the channels of the Oakland Harbor which is essential for the Port to accommodate new deep draft container ships. Sediment dredged for this project will be reused to create environmental enhancement and restore wetlands habitat in several locations, including the Hamilton Army Airfield. This project is authorized by WRDA 99.

Pier 36 Removal To Reduce Environmental and Navigational Hazards
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Amount: $6,220,000
Funds were authorized under WRDA 2007 to remove the deteriorated Pier 36 located along the San Francisco waterfront, allowing a new public park to be constructed in the South Beach neighborhood. Built of reinforced concrete in 1908-1909 for use as a freight ferry facility, the Pier was originally 721-feet long and 201-feet wide. Outer wood portions of the Pier have deteriorated and been largely removed. Recently, further deterioration has necessitated closing the Pier and securing it with fencing to prevent entry. Deteriorating sections of decking and wooden support pieces continue to rot, break and float out into the Bay, representing a potential hazard to navigation in the adjacent federal channel. In addition, Pier 36 was constructed using creosote-soaked pilings, which contain a class of chemical compounds known to affect the viability of fish spawning. Use of creosote-treated wood is now prohibited in new construction in San Francisco Bay. Removal of Pier 36, including freestanding piles, would eliminate these navigational and environmental hazards. Delay of these funds could also delay issuance of a $20 million contract using currently available non-federal funds to construct the Brannan Street Wharf public open space project at this location. Pier 36 removal is required in advance of construction of the Brannan Street Wharf, which is located within the recently adopted "Embarcadero Waterfront National Register Historic District."

San Francisco Bay Long Term Management Strategy
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: Pier 1, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111
Amount: $3,500,000
The objective of the Long Term Management Strategy (LTMS) is to ensure that dredging and disposal of dredged material are carried out in an economic and environmentally sound manner in the San Francisco Bay Area, and to establish and implement a framework for long-term site monitoring. This project is authorized by the Appropriations Act of 1991.

San Francisco Bay Harbor Dredging and Maintenance
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
Address: 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1398
Amount: $3,200,000
This funding provides for maintenance dredging of various channels in San Francisco Bay, including a 55 foot depth for the San Francisco Bar Channel, to provide safe navigation for all vessel traffic in and out of the Bay. This critical channel is the gateway to the San Francisco Bay. This project is authorized by the River and Harbor Acts of 1927, 1935, 1939, 1965, and 1968.

San Francisco Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Initiative
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 1155 Market Street 4th floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
Amount: $1,000,000
Accelerating the conversion to electric vehicles will help the U.S. auto industry, eliminate dependence on foreign oil, create millions of jobs and eliminate a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions. However, electric vehicles require a completely different infrastructure to repower than conventional combustion engine vehicles. Rather than filling a vehicle's gas tank, electric vehicles require ubiquitous electric charging outlets at homes, workplaces, on city streets and in public parking lots. Auto manufacturers have indicated that electric cars will be available within the next few years. The San Francisco Electric Vehicle Initiative would complete the necessary planning and build the required public infrastructure to make it feasible to use electric vehicles, and would serve as a model of how major American cities can facilitate large scale consumer conversion to electric vehicles.

San Francisco Harbor & Bay Drift Removal and Navigational Hazard Prevention
Recipient: US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
Address: 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1398
Amount: $2,500,000
The Drift Removal project provides for the collection and disposal of floating debris and hazards to navigation from the San Francisco Bay and its tributary waters, and maintenance of drift removal equipment. An estimated 1,100 tons of large debris are removed annually, enhancing safety for ferry, commercial and recreational vessels in these high-traffic channels. The San Francisco Water Transit Authority is developing new ferry connections around the Bay. This project is authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1950.

South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Study on Flood Prevention and Wetlands Restoration
Recipient: California State Coastal Conservancy
Address: 1330 Broadway, 13th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612-2530
Amount: $2,800,000
The South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Study is necessary to provide flood protection for Silicon Valley and to facilitate tidal wetland habitat restoration. The flood protection will benefit approximately 42,800 acres, 7400 homes and businesses, as well as major highways, parks and airports. Funds are requested in FY 2010 to allow the Corps of Engineers to make essential progress on completion of the Feasibility Report for the Study as directed by the Water Resources Development Act of 2007. Completion of the feasibility study for the project is expected in 2012, with construction beginning shortly thereafter. The requested funding is being sought in conjunction with the South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, the second largest wetlands restoration project in the United States. This portion of the project will provide tidal and fluvial flood protection for the Silicon Valley and other South Bay communities. The Salt Ponds Restoration Project will provide dramatic benefits to the region, state and nation by transforming 15,100 acres of salt ponds formerly owned by the Cargill Corporation into a vibrant wetlands area that will provide extensive habitat for federally endangered birds, fish and wildlife

HOMELAND SECURITY

San Francisco Emergency Operations Center
Recipient: San Francisco Department of Emergency Management
Address: 1011 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Amount: $800,000
Twenty City departments currently maintain Department Operations Centers (DOCs), which provide a critical information link between first responders and the San Francisco Emergency Operations Center (EOC) during a disaster. A backup satellite-based voice/data communication system that links the EOC to the DOCs is being installed to provide vital communications in the event that primary communication links are severed during an earthquake or other event. Currently, the EOC is connected to the internet via fiber optic cables which are vulnerable to earthquake damage, equipment failure and sabotage. This project will ensure that all City departments are linked to each other and to the federal Law Enforcement Online system (LEO) during an emergency. Such linkage will allow for video conferencing, sharing of documents and exchanging messages/video information. Federal funds are requested for the initial capital investment needed to purchase the equipment. Local funds will finance ongoing maintenance.

INTERIOR & ENVIRONMENT

Angel Island Immigration Station
Recipient: Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Address: 50 Francisco St., Suite 110, San Francisco, CA 94133
Amount: $1,000,000
The Angel Island Immigration Station, designated as one of America's Most Endangered Historic Places, served as a processing center for immigrants coming across the Pacific. More than one million immigrants, including immigrants from China, Korea, the Philippines, and Central and South America were processed at the station before it was shut down in 1940. The facility was used by the U.S. Army during World War II, then abandoned, and became part of the California State Park system in 1963. Due to water intrusion and failing footings, the building is in imminent danger of total failure. Funding is requested for design costs, building stabilization and partial new construction associated with rehabilitating this deteriorating historic structure.

Pacific Forest Trust/Bureau of Land Management Preservation Initiative
Recipient: Pacific Forest Trust
Address: 1001A O’Reilly Ave., San Francisco, CA 94129
Amount: $900,000
In 2000, President Bill Clinton designated 82,500 acres on the Oregon-California border the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The Monument brings together plants from the high deserts of California and the wet forests of the Pacific Coast, including thirty-five hundred species - many found nowhere else on earth. The Monument is also the source of fresh drinking water supplies for growing communities in Oregon, including Ashland and Medford. However, over 30,000 acres of land in the Monument remain outside of federal ownership, closed to public use and unprotected from development. The Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) in San Francisco has initiated the "Campaign to Complete the Vision" to remedy this problem by acquiring up to 12,000 acres of the most critical lands for eventual transfer to federal ownership. These lands are interspersed among large publicly owned tracts and nearly 5,000 acres have been acquired by PFT at its own expense, in consultation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), from willing sellers. Requested funds would be used for additional purchases, helping complete the Monument and enabling PFT to recycle its extensive investment for further Monument acquisitions. Specifically, this $2,000,000 request would allow the BLM to acquire roughly 2000 acres of PFT lands that are integral to protecting the Monument's biological diversity. An additional $2,600,000 appropriation next year would complete this phase of the project, permanently protecting over 4700 acres of Monument lands. The World Conservation Union has named CSNM one of the United States' seven Areas of Global Botanical Interest and the World Wildlife Fund rates it high on their list of the 100 Most Threatened Ecosystems. In addition, the Pacific Crest Trail, one of only two National Scenic Trails in the West, traverses the Monument and several of PFT's land parcels.

South San Francisco Bay Wetlands Restoration Project
Recipient: California State Coastal Conservancy
Address: 1330 Broadway, 13th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612-2530
Amount: $1,150,000
The California Coastal Conservancy is a state agency created to purchase, protect, restore and enhance coastal resources, and to provide access to the shore. Funds are requested to further the South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, the second largest wetlands restoration project in the United States. Specifically, requested funds would be used by the U.S. Geological Service to continue to provide the biological research and monitoring needed for project implementation, as well as to monitor the ecosystem improvements realized as a result of ecosystem restoration activities. Upon completion this will return the South San Francisco Bay's ecosystem to its most natural state in well over 100 years. This would provide dramatic benefits to the region, state and nation by transforming 15,100 acres of salt ponds formerly owned by the Cargill Corporation into a vibrant wetlands area that will provide extensive habitat for federally endangered birds, fish and wildlife. In addition, the project will provide flood protection for Silicon Valley and other South Bay communities, and will improve wildlife oriented recreational opportunities including fishing, hunting, environmental education and bird-watching. All local project sponsors are committed to working with the Corps of Engineers, Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal agencies through project completion. The project is supported by the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture, the City of San Jose, The Bay Institute, Save the Bay, the Bay Trail Program, the National Audubon Society, and many other local governments, environmental groups, community groups, businesses and recreation organizations. In addition, staff from the U.S. Geological Survey, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission are participating in the restoration design process.

LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION

Best Buddies San Francisco
Recipient: Best Buddies International, Inc.
Address: 1550 Bryant Street Suite 835, San Francisco, CA 94103
Amount: $250,000
Best Buddies is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment. Funds are requested to support 24 middle school, high school or college Best Buddies chapters in the eighth congressional district. This project will have 600 participants, train 96 student leaders, provide leadership training to 24 students with intellectual disabilities and include 96 group outings and countless individual meetings. The following San Francisco high schools have already contacted Best Buddies to express interest in starting a chapter: Burton High School, Galileo High School, Lincoln High School, Mission High School, and Thurgood Marshall High School. Federal funds would be used to hire and train three full-time employees, and for supplies, equipment, training and travel costs.

Chinese Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility
Recipient: The Chinese Hospital
Address: 845 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
Amount: $350,000
Chinese Hospital currently utilizes several Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) in San Francisco to refer Medicare patients. Recent closures/decreases in available SNF beds is causing disruptions to the continuity of patient care, especially given the cultural and language needs of the population Chinese Hospital serves, which is 98 percent of Chinese descent. Funds are requested for construction of a 22 bed hospital-based SNF to ensure the continuum of services needed to provide culturally sensitive, cost-effective and conveniently accessible primary and secondary health care to their patient population.

Direct Access to Housing Services for Homeless Veterans
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 101 Grove St., Room 323, San Francisco, CA 94102
Amount: $750,000
An estimated 30 percent of the homeless population in San Francisco are veterans. Homeless vets are older and more likely to have an alcohol disorder or complex medical conditions, including cognitive impairment. Over the last several years, the San Francisco Department of Public Health has been developing strategies and programmatic interventions to reach, stabilize and house homeless veterans who at risk of dying on the streets and who utilize a prohibitive amount of costly emergency services. Using this approach, housing has already secured for an estimated 1200 chronically homeless veterans, but the need continues to increase as veterans return for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The requested federal funds would be used to provide permanent housing to an additional 150 chronically homeless veterans, along with on-site addiction and health services.

Larkin Street Runaway and Homeless Youth Services
Recipient: Larkin Street Youth Services
Address: 701 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109
Amount: $300,000
Neighborhood-based multi-service centers have been identified as a key strategy for helping vulnerable youth access the programs and positive adult role models necessary to support a successful transition to independent adulthood. Larkin Street Youth Services in San Francisco provides a continuum of services to more than 3500 homeless, runaway and disconnected youth (ages 12 - 24) each year. This number has more than tripled over the past five years. However, Larkin Street's ability to provide essential services is severely limited by its available physical space, which lacks a private counseling office, kitchen or classroom space. Funds are requested to support a new multi-service center (MSC), in collaboration with Huckleberry Youth Programs and Community Health Programs for Youth (a division of the San Francisco Department of Public Health), in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. By relocating and co-locating with other respected service providers, the MSC will build a more comprehensive and seamless system of care for this hard-to-reach population, including case management, primary healthcare clinic, counseling and therapy services, health education workshops, and HIV prevention counseling. Federal funding is requested to support planning, renovation and equipment costs associated with the new MSC.

National Resource Center on Caregiving for the Chronically and Terminally Ill
Recipient: Family Caregiver Alliance
Address: 180 Montgomery Street, Suite 1100, San Francisco, CA 94104
Amount: $500,000
Over 44 million Americans provide unpaid care to adults with chronic or disabling conditions. Research shows that family caregivers are themselves at risk for emotional, mental and physical health problems arising from the strains of caring for frail or disabled relatives. In these tough economic times, family caregivers are especially vulnerable to extreme financial strain. At the same time, public services for vulnerable older adults are being cut. Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization working for over 30 years to improve the quality of life for family caregivers of adults with chronic, disabling conditions through services, education, advocacy and research. Serving as the Bay Area Caregiver Resource Center, FCA offers direct services (e.g., counseling, education, respite) to families in the six Bay Area counties. FCA's National Center on Caregiving advances the development of high-quality, cost-effective policies and programs for caregivers nationwide. The Center has completed groundbreaking studies; launched a 50-state online database of caregiver support programs; and used technology to disseminate information for caregivers, policymakers and service providers. In the last two years, the National Center has provided technical assistance and information to over 40,000 families and professionals. Currently, resource constraints limit the Center's ability to meet the rising demand. Funds are requested for a National Resource Center on Family Caregiving that would provide a clearinghouse of information, support, training and technical assistance to state and area agencies on aging, policymakers and service providers. The Center would identify, develop and disseminate information on best practices and evidence-based models of caregiver support programs; convene educational programs, conferences and web-based seminars; and maintain a 50-state online database of caregiver resources.

Poverty Reduction Services for Low Income Families
Recipient: SingleStop USA
Address: 369 Pine Street, Suite 525, San Francisco, CA 94104
Amount: $250,000
SingleStop USA (SSUSA) is private nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce the impact of poverty on families by increasing access to critical support services, government benefits and tax credits. SSUSA's services are distributed through partnerships with community based organizations (CBOs) and are targeted to low income households with income up 200% of the federal poverty level. At SingleStop sites, families learn their eligibility for a host of resources - food stamps, health insurance, tax refunds, and childcare subsidies - in just 15 minutes. SSUSA also offers vital legal and financial counseling to help clients maximize these additional resources and address issues such as eviction prevention, immigration status, family crises, and managing credit and debt. Requested funds will help expand SingleStop San Francisco (SSSF) from four sites in the Bay Area to eight. Specifically, requested funds will support program costs such as evaluation, training, equipment and data collection.

Preventing Suicide and Promoting Mental Health for California’s Hispanic Youth
Recipient: Inspire USA Foundation
Address: 657 Mission St. Suite 507, San Francisco, CA 94105
Amount: $200,000
The Inspire USA Foundation uses a web-based system of mental health services that young people can access free and anonymously in a setting where they are comfortable. Hispanic youth, in particular Latinas, have a significantly higher rate of suicide and depression than their non-Hispanic counterparts. In order to address this disparity and promote mental health in the Hispanic community in California, Inspire USA is working with the Hispanic Communications Network (HCN) to develop a public education outreach campaign and web-based resources using popular Spanish language media, as well as English language media geared towards Hispanics. Funds are requested for educational media, outreach, equipment and salaries. At the conclusion of the campaign, Inspire and HCN will conduct a thorough evaluation of the campaign in order to improve the model and make it replicable. Upon a successful evaluation, funding will be sought from SAMHSA or CDC to expand mental health outreach to Hispanic youth nationwide.

Saint Francis Memorial Hospital Bothin Burn Center Expansion
Recipient: Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
Address: 900 Hyde Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
Amount: $500,000
A modern burn unit is necessary in San Francisco to handle widespread casualties that could result from a major disaster or terrorist attack. The Bothin Burn Center at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital is the largest acute burn facility in the Bay Area. It is also the only certified burn center in San Francisco and is one of only 40 centers nationally to be verified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons. As a result, the Center serves the entire Bay Area with a specialized team of plastic surgeons, physicians, registered nurses, physical and occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, dieticians and psychiatrists. Saint Francis seeks funds to modernize the hospital's burn unit in order to handle a multi-casualty incident. The remodeling will reconfigure and expand the existing department to expand from eight patient beds to twelve. Federal funds would be used to carry out the remodeling of the current unit; wall removal and reinstallation, HVAC improvements, rewiring, utility installation, and plumbing.

San Francisco Child Advocacy Center for Abused and Neglected Children
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 170 Otis Street, 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
Amount: $350,000
The San Francisco Human Services Agency administers all of the major state and federally mandated human service programs for the City, including Medicaid, child and adult protective services, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Food Stamps and other services targeted to low-income populations. Funds are requested to help with construction of a new Child Advocacy Center (CAC) for combating child abuse. The CAC would replace an existing child protection center, which is where children who have been removed from their homes due to alleged abuse or neglect are initially taken to be examined while a temporary home is located. The center is staffed by social workers who assess and treat the children, and support the investigation of abuse. The new CAC would utilize multidisciplinary teams comprised of social workers, forensic and mental health specialists, and law enforcement personnel, enabling all necessary information to be gathered from the victimized child in a single interview. Federal funds would be used for renovation and equipment costs associated with the site.

San Francisco State University Technology Lab For Nurse Training
Recipient: San Francisco State University
Address: 1600 Holloway Avenue, Administration Building, San Francisco, CA 94132
Amount: $500,000
San Francisco State University's School of Nursing currently graduates 240 nurses a year, most of who work in Bay Area hospitals and health care organizations. A major bottleneck to increasing nursing enrollment is the lack of clinical placements available for students. SFSU is going to address this challenge by having students spend 25 percent of their clinical time working with patient simulators. Federal funds are requested to purchase state-of-the-art simulation technology will be integrated with the curriculum to augment and enhance classroom-based learning. The Center will utilize a variety of simulation techniques for student learning, such as task trainers, mannequin-based patient simulators and computer simulations. The aims of the Center include providing a student platform for deliberate practice and experiential learning in a safe environment, enhancing critical thinking and problem solving through the use of simulations, and substantially increasing the capacity of SFSU to graduate highly skilled nurses to address the nationwide nursing shortage.

Support Services For At-Risk Homeless Families
Recipient: Homeless Prenatal Program
Address: 2500 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Amount: $400,000
The Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP) provides case management and supportive services to poor and homeless families in crisis due to loss of a job, eviction, domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness and child custody issues. HPP helps 2,600 families each year deliver and raise healthy babies, overcome obstacles to stability and self-sufficiency, and end the multi-generational cycle of homelessness and poverty. Of 1,859 babies born to HPP clients since 1992, 90 percent were of normal weight and 96 percent were drug free. Over the past two years, HPP helped 1084 families move off the streets or out of substandard housing and shelters into permanent homes. Through a partnership with the City, HPP has helped reunite 100 former substance abusing mothers with their children. HPP proposes to establish an After Care program to maintain the stability of three particularly vulnerable segments of our population: 1) mothers with newborn babies with a history of poor or no prenatal care; 2) parents who recently have been reunified with their children following foster care placements; and 3) families who have obtained permanent housing following periods of being homeless or in substandard housing. Currently, HPP case managers guide these families to a vast array of services, supports and opportunities to stabilize their situation. HPP's experience indicates, however, that over the following six months, these fragile families are at significant risk of relapsing into former behaviors and circumstances. Funds are requested to establish a dedicated After Care team of peer mentors, case managers and specialists in clinical and mental health, housing and child welfare to help approximately 400 families during this transition to long-term stability.

TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Doyle Drive Replacement
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 100 Van Ness Ave. Floor 26, San Francisco, CA 94102
Amount: $4,000,000
Doyle Drive, built in 1936 to provide southern access to the Golden Gate Bridge, is reaching the end of its useful life. The lack of shoulders and the absence of a dividing median create dangerous operating conditions that often result in serious accidents. FHA ranks Doyle Drive as the fifth worst bridge in the nation and the worst in California for structural sufficiency. In addition, Doyle Drive is the only link between the San Francisco peninsula and northern California counties, and is therefore designated as a Post Disaster Recovery Route. The proposed new south access will eliminate these dangerous conditions for the 100,000 drivers and 18,000 transit riders who use Doyle Drive every day. The new project will replace this aging structure with a new parkway connecting San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Presidio, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Design began in 2007. FHA issued a Record of Decision in December 2008. The project is expected to be ready for construction in 2010 and completed by 2014. Federal funds would be used for project design work and right of way acquisition.

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Trails Program
Recipient: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Address: Building 201, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 94123
Amount: $1,000,000
Parks Conservancy programs engage more than a million visitors, 20,000 volunteers and 16,000 school children annually. "Trails Forever" is a long-term, park-wide initiative, done in partnership with the Presidio Trust and the National Park Service, to revitalize, realign, enhance, and maintain the 150 miles of trails in the Golden Gate National Parks. By dramatically improving trails, bikeways, trailheads, transit connections, and park amenities, Trails Forever is making the parks more accessible and sustainable. Additional federal funding is requested to realign and rehabilitate the California Coastal Trail and connectors, including sites at the Presidio, Lands End and the northern parklands. These improvements are especially critical for the successful conversion of military properties where improperly aligned roads, poorly placed parking areas and former military fire roads and pathways were not designed for contemporary park use.

San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transit Authority
Recipient: San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transit Authority
Address: Pier 9, Suite 111, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111
Amount: $1,500,000
WETA is a regional agency authorized by the State of California to develop and operate a comprehensive San Francisco Bay Area public water transit system. A state-approved plan requires WETA to add eight new routes plus improve service on the Bay Area's existing ferry systems. Funds are requested to help pay for the cost of building one ferry vessel to serve a new ferry route between Berkeley or Albany (final terminal site to be approved) and downtown San Francisco. The service would carry approximately 1800 people per day, serving the waterfront areas of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville, as well as travelers along the I-80 corridor, the most congested corridor in the Bay Area. Coupled with other East Bay ferry services, the Berkeley-SF route will help eliminate nearly one lane's worth of traffic on the Bay Bridge during peak commute times. This vessel and related infrastructure will also serve a critical role in emergency response if there is a future need to evacuate San Francisco via water.

SFgo Transportation Management System
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 1 South Van Ness Avenue, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
Amount: $750,000
A large percentage of the City's traffic signal infrastructure is obsolete and in decay. Existing traffic signal controllers are entering the final stage of their life spans. SFgo is the City's new Integrated Transportation Management System. Travelers can expect signals that respond to the actual volume of traffic and presence of transit vehicles on a roadway, faster response by City personnel clearing an incident, emergency vehicle preemption signals, real-time information on travel conditions and improved coordination between all modes of transportation. Funds are requested to install new traffic signal controllers and transit priority technology designed to minimize transit delays. These upgrades would be focused in the northeast and southeastern quadrants of the City, which serve as the nation's West Coast financial center, the Bay Area's main employment center, a commercial retail center generating the highest sales in the nation and numerous internationally prominent tourist destinations. This investment will avoid potential service degradations resulting from traffic signal failures and advance the City's "Transit First" policy by always providing green signals to transit.

Sunnydale-Velasco Public Housing Rehabilitation Project HOPE SF Project
Recipient: City and County of San Francisco
Address: 1 South Van Ness Avenue, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110
Amount: $750,000
San Francisco's HOPE SF program focuses on redeveloping distressed public housing sites with replacement public housing and new affordable and market-rate homes that contribute to the replacement costs of the public housing. The result is a ladder of housing affordability from low-income rental housing to entry-level home ownership opportunities in a City in need of middle-income housing options. As part of this long-term effort, the Mayor's Office of Housing has partnered with the San Francisco Housing Authority to redevelop the Sunnydale-Velasco public housing site into a new mixed income housing community. This 50 acre site currently consists of 785 public housing rental units in distressed physical condition. Plans are being developed to replace all existing public housing units one for one and add an estimated 800 new affordable and market rate rental and homeownership units. The developers have established a community building team on site to engage residents throughout the planning process and to develop services in partnership with community based organizations. Funds are requested for costs associated with planning, design, entitlement and community development work. Upon completion of that work, the development will be prepared to start construction on its first phase. This predevelopment would otherwise be delayed substantially due to the lack of additional local funding availability. By enabling the completion of the predevelopment work, the project will be able to leverage additional private, State and Federal during the construction phase.

Third St. Light Rail-Central Subway Project
Recipient: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Address: 1 South Van Ness Ave. 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
Amount: $5,500,000
Adding light rail service to the southeastern portion of San Francisco is critical to reconnecting communities that for many years could only rely on bus service. This effort is being constructed in two phases. Phase 1, a surface light rail line with 18 stops, was funded almost exclusively with state and local funds and began service in April 2007. Phase 2 will extend this light rail line through San Francisco's South of Market area and the downtown-Union Square shopping district into the heart of Chinatown. Once complete, the line is projected to carry over 78,000 riders per day. The project received a Record of Decision from FTA on November 26, 2008. Funds are requested for continued preliminary engineering and design work now underway. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency anticipates requesting entry into Final Design in November 2009.

Transbay Mass Transit Center
Recipient: Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA)
Address: Mission Street, Suite 2100, San Francisco, CA 94105
Amount: $3,000,000
The Transbay Transit Center/ Caltrain Downtown Extension Project is headed by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), a public entity. The purpose of the TJPA is to design, build, operate and maintain the new Transbay Transit Center and associated facilities in downtown San Francisco, including the extension of the Caltrain commuter rail 1.3 miles into the new Transit Center and accommodations for future California High-Speed Rail. The joint bus-rail facility will link nine Bay Area counties through service from ten different transit systems, making transit connections between all points in the Bay Area faster and more convenient. Once completed, the Transbay Transit Center/Caltrain Downtown Extension Program will serve 29 million passengers a year, making it a national model for intermodal hubs and transit-oriented development (TOD) in a dense urban setting. Funds are requested for costs associated with construction to connect Caltrain commuter rail and future California High-Speed Rail in the new Center. The project broke ground in November 2008, with Phase I completion scheduled in 2014. Additional federal funding for this project at this juncture would ensure that construction delays are not incurred based on availability of committed funds.