Information about each project was provided by the requesting entity. Amounts reflect committee funding levels. Senate appropriations funding for Montana, which passed the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2011, are listed below.
United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Bio-Energy Research Center
Montana State University-Northern
Havre, MT
$800,000
To establish MSU-Northern as a Regional Center of Excellence for the Bio-Energy industry for research, product development, and commercialization for agriculture, bio-energy, automotive/diesel technologies and education/training.
Energy Recovery at the Water Reclamation Facility
City of Bozeman
Bozeman, MT
$750,000
This project includes installation of an engine generator, building, and ancillary equipment to beneficially reuse biogas to generate both power and heat for the facility. The generator will feed the internal electrical grid at the Water Reclamation Facility site.
Fort Peck Cabin Conveyance
Army Corps-Omaha District
Fort Peck, MT
$1,000,000
Charles M Russell National Wildlife Refuge Act of 2000 authorizes The Army Corps of Engineers in concurrence with the USFWS to transfer 392 lots into private ownership, with the proceeds of the lot sales to be used to acquire land inside and adjacent to the CMR National Wildlife Refuge. The Corps has functions to perform to sell this land to lessees. These functions include Surveys, Sanitation review, and Appraisals to render the land suitable for transfer.
Fort Peck Reservation / Dry Prairie Rural Water System
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation
Poplar, MT
$6,000,000
Funds will complete the main transmission pipelines along the southern boundary of the project, serve the Reservation communities of Brockton and Fort Kipp to the east of Poplar, serve the Reservation communities of Oswego and Frazer west of Wolf Point, and permit the Tribes to begin branch lines to serve its membership and other rural residents within the Reservation. For Dry Prairie, the funds will complete the main transmission pipeline of Dry Prairie from the Reservation to Culbertson, complete the main transmission pipeline and branches of Dry Prairie from Medicine Lake to Plentywood and initiate branch line construction through the Dry Prairie service area around Westby and Outlook.
Intake Irrigation Diversion Fish Passage
Army Corps-Omaha District
Intake, MT
$12,000,000
This project would help save the pallid sturgeon from extinction in the Upper Missouri River Basin. The fish was listed as endangered in 1991 and only about 150 native individual fish remain.
Montana Algal BioDiesel Initiative
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$750,000
The bioenergy partnership proposed here will leverage the expertise of two internationally recognized research centers unique to Montana, the Thermal Biology Institute (TBI) and the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) to implement unique approaches to maximize energy production from algae.
Rocky Boys/North Central Montana Regional Water
North Central Montana Regional Water Authority
Havre, MT
$5,000,000
Construction of North Central Montana Regional Water Authority’s drinking water project
Rural Water Projects
Multiple Local Governments - Rural Montana
Multiple locations, MT
$5,000,000
Funds will be distributed through the Army Corps to develop rural water infrastructure throughout the state.
St. Mary Diversion Dam and Canal Headworks Project
Bureau of Reclamation
Glacier County, MT
$3,783,000
This project will rehabilitate the diversion dam and canal headworks, critical elements of the St. Mary diversion and conveyance system. The effort will sustain the Bureau of Reclamation's St. Mary system, which consists of 29 miles of canals, two dams, five concrete drop structures and two ninety inch diameter steel siphon structures.
Tri-County Biomass Energy Pilot Project
Lewis and Clark County
Helena, MT
$800,000
Funds will support three pieces of equipment plus management and research into long term sustainability, energy savings, environmental consequences and economic development opportunities.
Wind Power Exploration
Headwaters RC&D Area, Inc.
Butte, MT
$100,000
Funding will be used to purchase towers and anemometers to collect site specific wind data to determine feasibility of wind energy development.
Yellowstone River Corridor Comprehensive Study
The Nature Conservancy
Helena, MT
$500,000
The project will develop tools to plan management of the river corridor (for example, the channel migration zone or CMZ) and it will culminate in a set of best management practices to minimize management impacts to the river corridor environment.
