Total Funding: $2,530,000 Facilities Receiving Funding: DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge (Completed) Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge Statewide Projects: Iowa Partners for Fish and Wildlife Regionwide Projects: Youth Employment in the Midwest Region (Completed)

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The Midwest Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service benefitted from $28.5 million it received for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for projects throughout its 8-states. Iowa Recovery Act Projects total approximately $2.58 million of those funds, used for five projects, and through hiring 60 YCC students and 10 STEP students.

Projects include:

$1.2 million for window replacement and other energy efficiency improvements to the Desoto NWR Visitor Center (R3GH)

$750,000 for erosion repair work on the Guttenberg Most Soil Unit dikes at the Upper Mississippi River NW&FR (R3BC)

$300,000 to replace the halon fire suppression system at the Desoto NWR Visitor Center (R3GJ)

$200,000 to benefit the endangered Topeka Shiner through restoration work in the North Raccoon River Watershed through the Iowa Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EF)

$80,000 to replace incandescent light fixtures at Desoto NWR (R3GK)

$22,164 to employ 30 YCC students at Desoto NWR (R3NA)

$17,603 to employ 30 YCC students at Port Louisa NWR (R3NB)

$10,000 to employ 10 STEP students at Union Slough NWR (R3NF)

There are 73 Recovery Act projects in the Midwest Region, including six of which are region-wide student/intern employment projects totaling $443,700 including:

$93,242 to employ 150 Youth Conservation Corps employees at rural field stations throughout the Midwest (R3NA)

$198,084 to employ 240 Youth Conservation Corps employees each at 20 urban field stations throughout the Midwest (R3NB)

$30,000 to employ 24 conservation interns at rural field stations (R3NC)

$38,565 to employ 50 conservation interns each at rural field stations (R3ND)

$10,000 to employ 40 Student Temporary Employment (STEP) employees at urban field stations (R3NE)

$73,809 to employ 60 Student Temporary Employment (STEP) employees and other temporary youth hires at rural field stations (R3NF)

The $28.5 million dollars awarded through ARRA to the Midwest was distributed to field offices for projects in each of the 8 states in the region (and one project in Nebraska at Boyer Chute NWR, administered by staff at Desoto NWR, Iowa):

Iowa – five projects and employing 60 YCC and 10 STEP students, totaling $2.58 million

Illinois – four projects and employing 30 YCC students and 10 conservation interns, totaling $1.04 million

Indiana – four projects and employing 30 YCC students and 10 conservation interns, totaling $172,000

Michigan – 18 projects and employing 30 YCC students and 16 conservation interns, totaling $6.42 million

Minnesota – 10 projects and employing 40 STEP students, 90 YCC students and 12 conservation interns, totaling $3.45 million

Missouri – nine projects and employing 60 YCC students and 10 conservation interns, totaling $5.14 million

Nebraska – one project totaling $250,000 (administered by Desoto NWR, IA)

Ohio – six projects and employing 30 YCC students and 6 conservation interns, totaling $1.77 million

Wisconsin – nine projects and employing 60 YCC students, 50 STEP students, and 10 conservation interns, totaling $7.48 million