Total Funding: $6,386,895 Facilities Receiving Funding: Alpena National Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office (Completed) Green Bay National Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office (Completed) Jordan River National Fish Hatchery (Completed) Pendills Creek National Fish Hatchery (Completed) Seney National Wildlife Refuge (Completed) Statewide Projects: Michigan Partners for Fish and Wildlife (Completed) 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. Michigan Recovery Act Projects total approximately $6.42 million of those funds, across 18 projects, and through employing 30 YCC students and 16 conservation interns.

Projects include:

$2.18 million to replace the Jordan River NFH effluent treatment (R3PA)

$1.24 million to replace the deteriorated Upper Goose Pen water control structure at Seney NWR (R3GQ)

$1.2 million to construct a building over Jordan River NFH raceways 1-8 (R3PB)

$435,750 to replace the propane fired boiler system at Jordan River NFH (R3PC)

$285,000 to replace the deteriorating M2 and C2 water control structures at Seney NWR (R3GR)

$242,000 for rehabilitation work at the filtration building of Pendills Creek NFH (R3PG)

$200,000 for a building over raceways 9 and 10 at Jordan River NFH (R3PF)

$142,000 for Alpena NFWCO for the dam removal and a rock ramp at the Chesaning Dam (R3TA)

$107,000 to the Green Bay NFWCO, WI, for work in Michigan to remove the Nashville and Maple Hill dams on the Thornapple River. (R3TE)

$100,000 for the installation of a microturbine at the Jordan River NFH (R3DA)

$75,000 for Southern Michigan prairie revegetation and restoration through Michigan’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EH)

$50,000 for Lake Michigan Watershed Wetland restoration through Michigan’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EJ)

$48,500 to Green Bay NFWCO, WI, for work in Michigan to replace perched culvert on the Manistee River’s Silver Creek (R3TF)

$27,878 for replacement of a self contained fish freezer with a new energy efficient model at Pendills Creek NFH (R3PD)

$15,000 to improve copperbelly watersnake habitat through the Michigan Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EG)

$15,000 for hydrological restoration of degraded wetlands in the Lake Huron/Saginaw Bay area through the Michigan Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EK)

$11,976 for energy efficiency improvements to Pendills Creek NFH buildings (R3PE)

$10,000 for wetland restoration projects in the western Lake Erie watershed (R3EL)

$19,211 to employ 30 YCC students at Detroit River IWR (R3NB)

$7,500 to employ 6 conservation interns at Shiawassee NWR (R3NC)

$7,500 to employ 10 conservation interns at Seney NWR (R3ND)

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