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(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Representative Conor Lamb (PA-17) announced that he has secured more than $15.2 million to fund 15 Community Project Funding requests through the federal Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Appropriations process. The $1.7 trillion spending plan has passed the House and Senate and will now head to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
“Once again, the people of PA-17 have had a say in how their federal tax dollars are spent. As a community, we have prioritized jobs, infrastructure, children, and police. The people of our district are already working hard on these issues and this federal money is a well-deserved investment in them,” said Lamb.
Lamb championed funding for 15 projects that will directly benefit PA-17, including:
- $1,400,000 for the Allegheny Health Network for the First Steps and Beyond – Fourth Trimester Support program
- $995,000 for the Beaver County CTC Welding Lab Expansion and Upgrade
- $720,000 for Bellevue Borough for Straw Avenue Sanitary Sewer Improvements
- $400,000 for the Bidwell Training Center for the Bidwell Training Center Urban Food Production Training Program
- $991,758 for Crafton Borough for the Broadhead Avenue Sewer Separation Project
- $750,000 for McKees Rocks for Critical Parking for Downtown
- $1,000,000 for PennDOT for the Kittanning Pike Flood Control project
- $3,500,000 for the Moon Transportation Authority Market Place District Transportation Improvements
- $170,000 for the Northern Regional Police Department Police K9 Program
- $800,000 for the Municipality of Penn Hills Rodi Road Streetscape Phase 1
- $999,999 for Scott Township for the Sanitary Sewer Repair Project
- $500,000 for Aliquippa School District for a Student Athletic and Educational Flexible Field House
- $577,000 for the Beaver County District Attorney for the Ten-County SW-PA Rapid DNA Law Enforcement Initiative
- $1,800,000 for the Beaver County Office of Planning and Redevelopment Brodhead Road Corridor Upgrade
- $600,000 for the Early Excellence Project for the Child Care Stabilization project in Allegheny County
In addition to Lamb’s Community Project Funding awards, the $1.7 trillion spending bill includes $772.5 billion for non-defense discretionary programs and $858 billion in defense funding. Highlights in the bill includes $44.9 billion in emergency assistance to Ukraine and $1.8 billion in new funding to implement the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act.
The bill also provides $30 million to the U.S. Department of Energy to assist in the discovery, identification, and characterization of undocumented orphan oil and gas wells, an issue that Congressman Lamb has worked to prioritize for federal funding, given its enormous impact on Pennsylvania. There are close to nine thousand (8,840) documented orphan wells in Pennsylvania, primarily concentrated in the western part of the commonwealth – and many more undocumented wells are estimated to exist.
The bill also includes language to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to reaffirm that the Vice President has only a ministerial role at the joint session of Congress where electoral college votes are counted. The measure also would raise the threshold necessary for members of Congress to object to a state’s electors.