Earmark - Delaware River Basin Ecologically Sustainable Water Project

Agency:		Department of the Interior
Bureau:		United States Geological Survey
Account:		Surveys, investigations, and research (14-0804)
Certifying Official:		Budget Officer
Contact Information:		http://WWW.DOI.GOV 202-208-6416

Delaware River Basin Ecologically Sustainable Water Project

1 recipient will receive $247,000. This is a continuing earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Description: Completes modeling to determine ecologically-based flow relationships for the Upper Delaware River main stem and tributaries to develop a decision support system that would analyze and interpret water management and reservoir operations alternatives. Funding would also be directed to the development of a fully functional and user-friendly decision support system incorporating a reservoir operations model; downstream temperatures and habitat time series components; and thermal budgets for reservoirs based on the previous year's data collection of habitat, hydrologic, and temperature data in the upper mainstem Delaware River and Neversink River.

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
USGS (130900488)	$247	Biological Research	Federal	2150 Centre Ave., Building C Fort Collins, CO

Citation

Source: Appropriations Report Language - House Full Committee

Reference: H. Rept. 108-542

Method: User entered excerpt

Citation Excerpt: "...$250,000 to continue the Delaware River Basin Ecologically Sustainable Water Project'"

Citation Comment: Conference Report added $250,000 ($247,000 after ATB reductions)

Last Modified: 16-Apr-2007