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Total Funding: $3,688,105Facilities Receiving Funding:
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Regionwide Projects:
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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. Missouri Recovery Act Projects total approximately $5.14 million of those funds, across nine projects, and for employing 60 YCC students and 10 conservation interns.
Projects include:
$4,268,000 for a new energy efficient and accessible Visitor Center at Mingo NWR (R3GM)
$207,000 to replace the Niangua River crossing to benefit the threatened Niangua darter, at Columbia NFWCO (R3TD)
$203,000 to replace the water control structure at Swan Lake’s Seney Outlet at Great River NWR (R3BB)
$109,105 for energy efficiency solar panel installation at the Neosho NFH Visitor Center (R3RA)
$100,000 to install new energy efficient solar water heating system for pallid sturgeon buildings at Neosho NFH (R3DB)
$80,000 for Tavern Creek riparian habitat restoration work benefiting the threatened Niangua Darter, with Missouri Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EP)
$50,000 for preliminary designs to replace the radial gate structure at Squaw Creek NWR (R3GU)
$35,000 for Phase I of the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership’s Lower Bourbeuse Aquatic Conservation Area Landowner Partnership, with Columbia NFWCO (R3UC)
$29,000 for preliminary design work for energy efficiency improvements to the Mingo NWR Visitor Center (R3AA)
$17,995 to employ 30 YCC students at Cypress Creek NWR (R3NB)
$8,000 to employ 10 conservation interns at Mingo NWR (R3ND)
$36,000 to employ 30 YCC students at Squaw Creek NWR (R3NB)
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
