Congress Passes Bipartisan Spending Bill With Illinois Priorities Secured By Durbin

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today released the following statement after the Senate passed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 omnibus appropriations bill.

“Congress came together on a bipartisan basis to pass a comprehensive budget, which will benefit families across Illinois. This bill makes critical investments in public health, housing, infrastructure, public safety and violence prevention, election security, environment, education, and much more. By passing this spending package, we are delivering on the promises we made.”

These funding bills include the following priorities for Illinois:

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Synthetic Nicotine Fix: Clarifies FDA’s authority over synthetic nicotine to be regulated as tobacco products. This provision closes a loophole by e-cigarette manufacturers –including the most popular vape used by children, Puff Bar—seeking to evade FDA regulation and public health reviews.

Maternal Health: Includes significant new funding and resources to improve maternal health outcomes, especially among women of color who face the greatest risk. The bill will provide funding to train health care professionals to improve prenatal care for racial and ethnic minority populations; increase awareness of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines to prevent disease in pregnant and postpartum women; improve rural maternal and obstetric care data; and allow telehealth to include providers of prenatal and postpartum care.

Office of Refugee Resettlement: $4.82 billion, including to support requirements for unaccompanied children.

National Institutes of Health (NIH): $45 billion for NIH – a $2.25 billion (or more than five percent) increase over the previous year.

ARPA-H: $1 billion for the creation of President Biden’s new ARPA-H initiative to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for diseases for diseases such as cancer, ALS, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): $8.5 billion for the CDC – a $582 million (or more than seven percent) increase over the previous year.

Childhood Trauma: To support the mental health needs of children and break the cycle of violence, the bill includes new funding for four programs that Durbin authorized in 2018. Includes $7 million to fund a new Trauma Support in Schools grant program; $1 million to fund for the Interagency Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care to bring together federal agencies to coordinate and share best practices on addressing trauma through their funding mechanisms; $7 million for the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experiences program to improve data collection and interventions; and $82 million for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, which supports several Chicago efforts to provide trauma-informed treatments.

Violence Prevention: $25 million between the CDC and NIH for firearm prevention research and $15 million for CDC’s Youth Violence prevention program. Both of these programs have supported efforts to address violence in Illinois.

Congenital Heart Disease: $7.25 million for the CDC’s data collection and research efforts. This is the fourth funding increase to this program since Durbin reauthorized it in 2018.

SIREN Act: $7.5 million for grants to rural fire/EMS agencies for workforce and equipment needs. Durbin created this grant program in 2018, which has provided funding to several rural EMS agencies in Illinois.

Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (GME): $375 million for new medical residency slots via the Children’s Hospital GME program.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Training Grants: $2.9 billion.

Registered Apprenticeships: $235 million, an increase of $50 million.

Automation: Includes Durbin’s report language with Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL) that provides $5 million to establish an Automation Impacted Industries Pilot Program to train workers dislocated by automation.

Open Textbook Pilot: $11 million to fully fund the FY21 grants and provide for a new competitive grant program. Durbin has secured $35 million over five years for this program.

Increasing Pell Grant Awards: Increases the maximum award by $400 to $6,895. This is the largest increase in more than a decade.

Impact Aid: Includes $1.6 billion for Impact Aid—a $56 million increase. Twelve Illinois school districts count on Impact Aid funds.

School-based Mental Health Professionals: $55 million for mental health professionals grants and $56 million for school-based mental health services grants.

Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development

RAISE Grants: $775 million funding for the RAISE multimodal infrastructure grant program (formerly “BUILD’ and ‘TIGER’), of which Illinois has been a major beneficiary since Durbin helped create the program in 2009.

Transit: $2.3 billion for Capital Investment Grants.

Airport Improvements: $554 million in FAA Airport Improvement Program funding, which will help support capital projects at Illinois airports.

Rail Grants: $625 million for grants through the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement Program (CRISI).

Bus Grants: $175 million for Bus and Bus Facilities grants and $75M for Low or No Emission bus grants.

Amtrak: $2.3 billion in nationwide Amtrak funding including $1.45 billion for the National Network, which supports Illinois’ long distance and state-supported routes.

Roadside Deaths: Directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to use the $5 million Durbin previously secured for deployment of digital alert technology with local law enforcement.

Public Housing Funds: $8.4 billion combined for the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds, a $645.5 million increase from FY21, which includes $3.2 billion to meet capital accrual needs to improve quality and safety for 2 million public housing residents.

Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes: $415 million, including a new $25 million demonstration program to conduct inspections for lead in housing choice voucher units.

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA): $450 million.

Community Development Fund: $4.84 billion, which includes $3.3 billion for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).

HOME Investment Partnerships: $1.5 billion, a $150 million increase from FY21 and the highest level for the program in the past decade.

Homeless Assistance Grants: $3.2 billion to help communities prevent homelessness.

Energy & Water

Department of Energy’s Office of Science: $7.48 billion in funding.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: $1.078 billion for the Office of Science’s High Energy Physics Program, which provides 90% of Fermilab’s funding. $176 million is provided for the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility, $90 million is provided for the Proton Improvement Plan-II, and $10.25 million for the construction of Fermilab’s Integrated Engineering Research Center (IERC) building.

Argonne National Laboratory: $2.3 billion for the Office of Science’s Basic Energy Sciences Program, which provides approximately 40% of Argonne’s funding. Within that amount, $101 million is provided for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade. This bill also provides $160 million for Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility.

Exascale Computing Project: $129 million to complete the project by FY24 and deliver applications and software to 3 exascale computing systems, including at Argonne National Lab.

Supercritical, Transformational Electric Power Initiative: $5 million to spur the development of large scale supercritical carbon dioxide power conversion.

Army Corps of Engineers: $8.3 billion.

Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study: $500,000 to begin a comprehensive study of the Great Lakes.

Chicago Shoreline Expansion: $500,000 to begin reevaluation of the Chicago Shoreline project for expansion to new areas impacted by climate change.

Sewer Projects in Madison and St. Clair Counties: $6.025 million for sewer projects in Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois.

Fox River Restoration: $250 million for the restoration of the Fox River in Illinois.

Upper Des Plaines River Restoration: $1.525 million for the restoration of the Upper Des Plaines River in Illinois.

Illinois Locks and Dams: $45 million to continue modernization of Illinois locks and dams.

Asian Carp/Brandon Road Project in Joliet: $4.9 million in design funding.

Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMMR) (Quincy Bay Restoration): $33 million to fully fund the current projects in the program, including the restoration of Quincy Bay.

Interior and Environment

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: $348 million in funding to support the inter-agency program that addresses issues affecting the Great Lakes, including invasive species and pollution.

Brownfield Cleanup: $92 million in funding to assess and safely clean up contaminated properties whose expansion, redevelopment or reuse is complicated by hazardous substances or pollution.

Public Water System Supervision: $113 million in funding, includes $10 million for the EPA’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Programs and other contaminants of emerging concern.

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: $1.26 billion.

Clean Water State Revolving Fund: $1.63 billion.

Combined Sewer Overflow grants: $43 million.

Environmental Justice Activities: $100 million.

Nonpoint Source Pollution (Sec. 319): $178 million.

Water Infrastructure Workforce Development: $4 million.

Small and Disadvantaged Communities: $27 million, a $750,000 increase from FY21.

Reducing Lead in Drinking Water: $22 million and report language Durbin requested on Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program and Manganese soil contamination in Chicago is included.

Military Construction and Veteran Affairs

Caregivers Program: $1.37 billion for the VA Caregivers Program, a program Durbin established to provide support for veterans’ caregivers.

State Home Construction Grants: $50 million. Illinois State Veterans Homes continue to receive strong financial support from this program for renovations and new construction.

VA electronic records modernization: $2.5 billion.

Medical and Prosthetic Research: $882 million for medical and prosthetic research to advance and promote the health and care of veterans through the development of cutting edge treatments in a host of areas, including mental health, wounded warrior care, and care for women veterans.

Smoke-Free VA: Includes report language supporting Veterans Health Administration (VHA) prohibition on smoking modeled after Durbin’s Smoke-Free VA bill.

Defense

Defense Medical Research: $2.69 billion in Defense medical research, which is a five percent or $84 million increase over FY21. This also includes strong funding for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.

C-130Js: $1.8 billion for 16 new C-130J aircraft for the Air National Guard. This will support National Guard bases like the 182^nd Airlift Wing in Peoria.

C-40s: $10 million for SATCOM upgrades for two aircraft at Scott Air Force Base. Also includes report language opposing any planned Air Force divestment and requiring the Air Force to report on the implications of such a divestment.

F/A-18/E/F: $977 million for 12 new aircrafts.

Baltic Security Initiative: $180 million in security assistance for the Baltic States, a fund Durbin helped create in FY21.

Ukraine: $300 million for Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative to respond to Russian aggression. Also includes $30 million for Poland, $30 million for Romania, $20 million for Bulgaria, and $40 million for Georgia in security aid given the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Extremism: Continued report language on addressing extremism in the military, including a directive that DOD report on new policy and personnel actions take to address extremist or criminal group activity.

Rock Island Arsenal: $115 million for the Arsenal Sustainment Initiative in order to continue to stabilize labor rates at all three arsenals, $120 million to continue manufacturing of the Shop Equipment Contact Maintenance Vehicle (SECM) as part of the AM-General/RIA partnership, $15 million for manufacturing of the Army’s Jointless hull chassis at the Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center, and $3.5 million to continue the real estate inventory tool Durbin helped create last year to help find uses for available space across Rock Island Arsenal.

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration

SNAP Benefits: $140.5 billion in mandatory spending, $3B for reserve funding – full funding for nutrition programs.

SNAP-Supportive Living Facilities: Includes another short-term extension through December 31, 2022 to protect 8,000 low-income seniors and elderly people in Illinois that rely on SNAP nutrition assistance benefits.

Agricultural Research: $3.5 billion for research activities at the Agricultural Research Service.

Bee Research: $1 million for Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to continue mapping the bee genome, research being conducted the Peoria Ag Lab in conjunction with the University of Illinois.

Homeland Security

· USCIS: $275 million to address immigration application backlogs.

FEMA: $23.9 billion; includes $18.8 billion for disaster response and recovery.

Nonprofit Security Grants: $250 million total – $125 million for urban and $125 for non-urban institutions, to support houses of worship and other nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack in enhancing security.

Urban Area Security Initiative: $740 million.

Public Transportation Security: $10 million for Amtrak Security and $2M for bus security.

TSA: $8.49 billion.

Coast Guard: $11.5 billion for our Coast Guard.

Firefighter Grants: $720 million in funding through the Assistance to Firefighters (AFG) and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grants.

Commerce, Justice, and Science

Law Enforcement Funding: $3.9 billion in Justice Department grant funding for state and local law enforcement.

BOP: $8.1 billion for administration, operation, and maintenance of BOP facilities; provides for no less than $409 million for First Step Act activities.

John R. Justice Prosecutor and Public Defender Student Loan Repayment Program: Doubles funding to $4 million for this important program, which provides student loan repayment assistance for state and local prosecutors and public defenders in every state.

Community Violence Intervention and Prevention: $50 million in Justice Department funding for a new Community Violence Intervention and Prevention initiative to support efforts by community-based organizations to reduce gun violence.

Hate Crimes: $13 million for law enforcement agencies to conduct educational outreach and training on hate crimes and to investigate hate crimes and $5 million for programs authorized under Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act.

Law Enforcement/Community Relations: $120 million for initiatives to improve police-community relations; also instructs the Attorney General to use the $5 million provided in FY21 to establish a Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight to coordinate the detection and referral of complaints regarding incidents of alleged law enforcement misconduct.

National Science Foundation: $8.84 billion for basic science research to promote innovation, ensure America’s competitiveness in the global economy and help train the future scientific and technical workforce.

NOAA: $5.88 billion, which includes $79 million for Coastal Zone Management Grants to support the protection, restoration, and enhancement of coastal areas, including the Great Lakes. The bill also includes $5.1 million for the Regional Climate Centers to develop products and services for climate-related issues affecting agriculture, transportation, energy generation, and water resources.

NIST Scientific and Technical Research Services: $850 million.

NASA: $24 billion.

Financial Services and General Government

Election Security: $75 million for election security grants to states to improve the security and integrity of elections for federal office; also provides $20M for the Election Assistance Commission.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS): $12.6 billion to help address the backlog of returns and correspondence.

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs): $295 million.

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN): $161 million to boost efforts to combat terrorist financing and money laundering.

Small Business Administration (SBA): $1 billion.

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These funding bills include the following priorities for Illinois:

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Synthetic Nicotine Fix: Clarifies FDA’s authority over synthetic nicotine to be regulated as tobacco products. This provision closes a loophole by e-cigarette manufacturers –including the most popular vape used by children, Puff Bar—seeking to evade FDA regulation and public health reviews.

Maternal Health: Includes significant new funding and resources to improve maternal health outcomes, especially among women of color who face the greatest risk. The bill will provide funding to train health care professionals to improve prenatal care for racial and ethnic minority populations; increase awareness of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines to prevent disease in pregnant and postpartum women; improve rural maternal and obstetric care data; and allow telehealth to include providers of prenatal and postpartum care.

Office of Refugee Resettlement: $4.82 billion, including to support requirements for unaccompanied children.

National Institutes of Health (NIH): $45 billion for NIH – a $2.25 billion (or more than five percent) increase over the previous year.

ARPA-H: $1 billion for the creation of President Biden’s new ARPA-H initiative to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for diseases for diseases such as cancer, ALS, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): $8.5 billion for the CDC – a $582 million (or more than seven percent) increase over the previous year.

Childhood Trauma: To support the mental health needs of children and break the cycle of violence, the bill includes new funding for four programs that Durbin authorized in 2018. Includes $7 million to fund a new Trauma Support in Schools grant program; $1 million to fund for the Interagency Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care to bring together federal agencies to coordinate and share best practices on addressing trauma through their funding mechanisms; $7 million for the CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experiences program to improve data collection and interventions; and $82 million for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, which supports several Chicago efforts to provide trauma-informed treatments.

Violence Prevention: $25 million between the CDC and NIH for firearm prevention research and $15 million for CDC’s Youth Violence prevention program. Both of these programs have supported efforts to address violence in Illinois.

Congenital Heart Disease: $7.25 million for the CDC’s data collection and research efforts. This is the fourth funding increase to this program since Durbin reauthorized it in 2018.

SIREN Act: $7.5 million for grants to rural fire/EMS agencies for workforce and equipment needs. Durbin created this grant program in 2018, which has provided funding to several rural EMS agencies in Illinois.

Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (GME): $375 million for new medical residency slots via the Children’s Hospital GME program.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Training Grants: $2.9 billion.

Registered Apprenticeships: $235 million, an increase of $50 million.

Automation: Includes Durbin’s report language with Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL) that provides $5 million to establish an Automation Impacted Industries Pilot Program to train workers dislocated by automation.

Open Textbook Pilot: $11 million to fully fund the FY21 grants and provide for a new competitive grant program. Durbin has secured $35 million over five years for this program.

Increasing Pell Grant Awards: Increases the maximum award by $400 to $6,895. This is the largest increase in more than a decade.

Impact Aid: Includes $1.6 billion for Impact Aid—a $56 million increase. Twelve Illinois school districts count on Impact Aid funds.

School-based Mental Health Professionals: $55 million for mental health professionals grants and $56 million for school-based mental health services grants.

Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development

· RAISE Grants: $775 million funding for the RAISE multimodal infrastructure grant program (formerly “BUILD’ and ‘TIGER’), of which Illinois has been a major beneficiary since Durbin helped create the program in 2009.

Transit: $2.3 billion for Capital Investment Grants.

· Airport Improvements: $554 million in FAA Airport Improvement Program funding, which will help support capital projects at Illinois airports.

· Rail Grants: $625 million for grants through the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement Program (CRISI).

· Bus Grants: $175 million for Bus and Bus Facilities grants and $75M for Low or No Emission bus grants.

· Amtrak: $2.3 billion in nationwide Amtrak funding including $1.45 billion for the National Network, which supports Illinois’ long distance and state-supported routes.

· Roadside Deaths: Directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to use the $5 million Durbin previously secured for deployment of digital alert technology with local law enforcement.

· Public Housing Funds: $8.4 billion combined for the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds, a $645.5 million increase from FY21, which includes $3.2 billion to meet capital accrual needs to improve quality and safety for 2 million public housing residents.

· Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes: $415 million, including a new $25 million demonstration program to conduct inspections for lead in housing choice voucher units.

· Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA): $450 million.

· Community Development Fund: $4.84 billion, which includes $3.3 billion for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).

· HOME Investment Partnerships: $1.5 billion, a $150 million increase from FY21 and the highest level for the program in the past decade.

· Homeless Assistance Grants: $3.2 billion to help communities prevent homelessness.

Energy & Water

· Department of Energy’s Office of Science: $7.48 billion in funding.

· Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: $1.078 billion for the Office of Science’s High Energy Physics Program, which provides 90% of Fermilab’s funding. $176 million is provided for the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility, $90 million is provided for the Proton Improvement Plan-II, and $10.25 million for the construction of Fermilab’s Integrated Engineering Research Center (IERC) building.

Argonne National Laboratory: $2.3 billion for the Office of Science’s Basic Energy Sciences Program, which provides approximately 40% of Argonne’s funding. Within that amount, $101 million is provided for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade. This bill also provides $160 million for Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility.

· Exascale Computing Project: $129 million to complete the project by FY24 and deliver applications and software to 3 exascale computing systems, including at Argonne National Lab.

· Supercritical, Transformational Electric Power Initiative: $5 million to spur the development of large scale supercritical carbon dioxide power conversion.

· Army Corps of Engineers: $8.3 billion.

· Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study: $500,000 to begin a comprehensive study of the Great Lakes.

· Chicago Shoreline Expansion: $500,000 to begin reevaluation of the Chicago Shoreline project for expansion to new areas impacted by climate change.

· Sewer Projects in Madison and St. Clair Counties: $6.025 million for sewer projects in Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois.

· Fox River Restoration: $250 million for the restoration of the Fox River in Illinois.

· Upper Des Plaines River Restoration: $1.525 million for the restoration of the Upper Des Plaines River in Illinois.

· Illinois Locks and Dams: $45 million to continue modernization of Illinois locks and dams.

· Asian Carp/Brandon Road Project in Joliet: $4.9 million in design funding.

· Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMMR) (Quincy Bay Restoration): $33 million to fully fund the current projects in the program, including the restoration of Quincy Bay.

Interior and Environment

· Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: $348 million in funding to support the inter-agency program that addresses issues affecting the Great Lakes, including invasive species and pollution.

· Brownfield Cleanup: $92 million in funding to assess and safely clean up contaminated properties whose expansion, redevelopment or reuse is complicated by hazardous substances or pollution.

· Public Water System Supervision: $113 million in funding, includes $10 million for the EPA’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Programs and other contaminants of emerging concern.

· Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: $1.26 billion.

· Clean Water State Revolving Fund: $1.63 billion.

· Combined Sewer Overflow grants: $43 million.

· Environmental Justice Activities: $100 million.

· Nonpoint Source Pollution (Sec. 319): $178 million.

· Water Infrastructure Workforce Development: $4 million.

· Small and Disadvantaged Communities: $27 million, a $750,000 increase from FY21.

· Reducing Lead in Drinking Water: $22 million and report language Durbin requested on Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program and Manganese soil contamination in Chicago is included.

Military Construction and Veteran Affairs

· Caregivers Program: $1.37 billion for the VA Caregivers Program, a program Durbin established to provide support for veterans’ caregivers.

· State Home Construction Grants: $50 million. Illinois State Veterans Homes continue to receive strong financial support from this program for renovations and new construction.

· VA electronic records modernization: $2.5 billion.

· Medical and Prosthetic Research: $882 million for medical and prosthetic research to advance and promote the health and care of veterans through the development of cutting edge treatments in a host of areas, including mental health, wounded warrior care, and care for women veterans.

· Smoke-Free VA: Includes report language supporting Veterans Health Administration (VHA) prohibition on smoking modeled after Durbin’s Smoke-Free VA bill.

Defense

Defense Medical Research: $2.69 billion in Defense medical research, which is a five percent or $84 million increase over FY21. This also includes strong funding for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.

C-130Js: $1.8 billion for 16 new C-130J aircraft for the Air National Guard. This will support National Guard bases like the 182^nd Airlift Wing in Peoria.

C-40s: $10 million for SATCOM upgrades for two aircraft at Scott Air Force Base. Also includes report language opposing any planned Air Force divestment and requiring the Air Force to report on the implications of such a divestment.

F/A-18/E/F: $977 million for 12 new aircrafts.

Baltic Security Initiative: $180 million in security assistance for the Baltic States, a fund Durbin helped create in FY21.

Ukraine: $300 million for Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative to respond to Russian aggression. Also includes $30 million for Poland, $30 million for Romania, $20 million for Bulgaria, and $40 million for Georgia in security aid given the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Extremism: Continued report language on addressing extremism in the military, including a directive that DOD report on new policy and personnel actions take to address extremist or criminal group activity.

Rock Island Arsenal: $115 million for the Arsenal Sustainment Initiative in order to continue to stabilize labor rates at all three arsenals, $120 million to continue manufacturing of the Shop Equipment Contact Maintenance Vehicle (SECM) as part of the AM-General/RIA partnership, $15 million for manufacturing of the Army’s Jointless hull chassis at the Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center, and $3.5 million to continue the real estate inventory tool Durbin helped create last year to help find uses for available space across Rock Island Arsenal.

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration

SNAP Benefits: $140.5 billion in mandatory spending, $3B for reserve funding – full funding for nutrition programs.

· SNAP-Supportive Living Facilities: Includes another short-term extension through December 31, 2022 to protect 8,000 low-income seniors and elderly people in Illinois that rely on SNAP nutrition assistance benefits.

Agricultural Research: $3.5 billion for research activities at the Agricultural Research Service.

· Bee Research: $1 million for Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to continue mapping the bee genome, research being conducted the Peoria Ag Lab in conjunction with the University of Illinois.

Homeland Security

· USCIS: $275 million to address immigration application backlogs.

· FEMA: $23.9 billion; includes $18.8 billion for disaster response and recovery.

· Nonprofit Security Grants: $250 million total – $125 million for urban and $125 for non-urban institutions, to support houses of worship and other nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack in enhancing security.

· Urban Area Security Initiative: $740 million.

· Public Transportation Security: $10 million for Amtrak Security and $2M for bus security.

· TSA: $8.49 billion.

· Coast Guard: $11.5 billion for our Coast Guard.

· Firefighter Grants: $720 million in funding through the Assistance to Firefighters (AFG) and Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grants.

Commerce, Justice, and Science

· Law Enforcement Funding: $3.9 billion in Justice Department grant funding for state and local law enforcement.

· BOP: $8.1 billion for administration, operation, and maintenance of BOP facilities; provides for no less than $409 million for First Step Act activities.

· John R. Justice Prosecutor and Public Defender Student Loan Repayment Program: Doubles funding to $4 million for this important program, which provides student loan repayment assistance for state and local prosecutors and public defenders in every state.

· Community Violence Intervention and Prevention: $50 million in Justice Department funding for a new Community Violence Intervention and Prevention initiative to support efforts by community-based organizations to reduce gun violence.

Hate Crimes: $13 million for law enforcement agencies to conduct educational outreach and training on hate crimes and to investigate hate crimes and $5 million for programs authorized under Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act.

Law Enforcement/Community Relations: $120 million for initiatives to improve police-community relations; also instructs the Attorney General to use the $5 million provided in FY21 to establish a Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight to coordinate the detection and referral of complaints regarding incidents of alleged law enforcement misconduct.

National Science Foundation: $8.84 billion for basic science research to promote innovation, ensure America’s competitiveness in the global economy and help train the future scientific and technical workforce.

· NOAA: $5.88 billion, which includes $79 million for Coastal Zone Management Grants to support the protection, restoration, and enhancement of coastal areas, including the Great Lakes. The bill also includes $5.1 million for the Regional Climate Centers to develop products and services for climate-related issues affecting agriculture, transportation, energy generation, and water resources.

· NIST Scientific and Technical Research Services: $850 million.

NASA: $24 billion.

Financial Services and General Government

Election Security: $75 million for election security grants to states to improve the security and integrity of elections for federal office; also provides $20M for the Election Assistance Commission.

· Internal Revenue Service (IRS): $12.6 billion to help address the backlog of returns and correspondence.

· Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs): $295 million.

· Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN): $161 million to boost efforts to combat terrorist financing and money laundering.

Small Business Administration (SBA): $1 billion.

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