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December 22, 2022

Hirono Secures Nearly $450 Million for Hawaii in Federal Spending Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 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.

“This funding bill invests in our communities, our country, and our national defense,” said Senator Hirono. “I’m 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’s 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.”

A full list of the projects for which Senator Hirono secured CDS funding is below.

Schofield Barracks - $111,000,000

To construct standard design Company Operations Facilities for four companies and Troop Aid Station.

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam - $103,350,000

To construct three box magazines for ordnance storage and improve perimeter security.

Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) - $87,900,000

To provide the required enlisted personnel housing units to accommodate personnel stationed at MCBH.

Fort Shafter - $38,000,000

To provide a Potable Water System for Hawaii’s Tripler Army Medical Center and for antiterrorism protection measures to enhance potable water system resiliency and security.

Fort Shafter - $33,000,000

To 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.

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam - $20,000,000

To 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.

County of Hawaii - $13,000,000

To provide facilities at Hilo Memorial Hospital for necessary community services.

University of Hawaii (UH), UH Cancer Center - $6,500,000

To support the construction of a new Early Phase Clinical Research Center (EPCRC) at the UH Cancer Center’s Kakaako campus (Oahu), which will provide Hawaii’s cancer patients and families with access to novel clinical trials that are currently only available on the U.S. mainland.

Kauai County Housing Agency - $5,000,000

To provide infrastructure for housing development in Hanapepe, Ele'ele, and Port Allen on Kauai.

City and County of Honolulu - $3,538,000

To provide stable, affordable housing to those with mental illness.

Hoahu Energy Cooperative Molokai - $3,000,000

To 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.

University of Hawaii at Manoa - $2,250,000

To establish the Shoreline Equity and Adaptation Hub (SEA Hub) to understand shoreline communities’ needs and develop equitable solutions to the challenge of adapting to sea level rise.

Department of Water Supply, County of Hawaii - $2,080,000

To construct a deep well at a location that reduces the infrastructure required to bring high quality drinking water to the North Kona water system.

Maikai Health Corporation, Hawaii Island - $2,000,000

To 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.

Waimanalo Health Center, Oahu - $2,000,000

To 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.

Maui County and Kauai County - $1,500,000

To prevent the extinction of Hawaii’s critically endangered native forest birds by focusing on developing/scaling a new intervention to suppress invasive mosquitoes and reduce avian malaria infections for Hawaii’s native forest birds.

County of Maui - $1,400,000

To provide a new emergency operations center and security operations center with electrical, technological, audiovisual and security systems, and provide redundant power and communications systems.

Daniel K. Inouye US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center - $1,215,000

To complete the facility’s solar panel installation and roof design, and install a sidewalk for the insectary.

Department of Public Works, County of Kauai - $1,200,000

To engineer and inspect the Wailua—Kapaa 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.

Aha Punana Leo (APL) - $1,126,000

To support the reaccreditation of Aha Punana Leo’s (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.

YWCA Hawaii Island - $1,102,000

To 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.

The Nature Conservancy - $1,000,000

To 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.

Division of Forestry and Wildlife, State of Hawaii - $1,000,000

To purchase equipment necessary to locate and remove species that prey on endangered plants and animals in priority areas.

University of Hawaii, Office of Indigenous Innovation - $1,000,000

To support the creation of an Indigenous Data Science Sector Development Initiative (IDSSDI), which would address the need for diversification of Hawaii’s economy through the restoration of Indigenous agencies.

Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) - $850,000

To 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.

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - $800,000

To renovate and repair facilities used to educate and engage with the community on Hawaiian bird conservation.

Kumano I Ke Ala o Makaweli, Kauai - $796,000

To support the development of K-12 school curriculum focused on natural resource management, traditional Hawaiian language and agriculture, and food production.

Malama Aina Foundation - $765,000

To 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.

City and County of Honolulu - $679,000

To 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.

Parents and Children Together, Oahu - $550,000

To 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.

Hale Kipa, Oahu - $500,000

To 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.

Malama Kauai - $492,000

To construct a food hub facility to serve the surrounding community.

Susannah Wesley Community Center, Oahu - $325,000

To 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.

Kalamapii PLAY School, Hawaii Island - $197,000

To 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.

The Legal Clinic, Oahu - $120,000

To 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.

Department of Water Supply, County of Hawaii - $80,000

To 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.

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