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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

Congressionally Directed Spending – Fiscal Year 2025

Listed below are the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies projects Senator Blumenthal has submitted to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate Appropriations Committee selects the final projects from the projects submitted by all senators. Therefore, neither submission of an application nor Senator Blumenthal’s approved list of projects are guaranteed for final funding.

Projects are listed in alphabetical order.

Community Health Resources—Windsor, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,600,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support renovations of health facility. 
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Antique Fire Apparatus Association—East Windsor, CT

  • Amount Requested: $460,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support infrastructure improvements to the museum.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $982,688
  • Funding awarded for this project will support research for plant protection methods. 
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $246,646
  • Funding awarded for this project will support tick and tick-borne pathogen surveillance.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $669,593
  • Funding awarded for this project will support research of pesticides in plants.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station—Windsor, CT

  • Amount Requested: $50,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support plant nutrient testing.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Essex Library Association —Essex, CT

  • Amount Requested: $876,040
  • Funding awarded for this project will support facility improvements.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center —Waterford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,596,420
  • Funding awarded for this project will support facility improvements throughout the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Center campus.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Library Association of Warehouse Point—East Windsor, CT

  • Amount Requested: $600,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support facilities improvements to aging library infrastructure.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Lower Connecticut River Land Trust—Lyme, CT

  • Amount Requested: $400,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support restoration, landscaping, and educational materials of the Osaki Education Center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Sea Research Foundation (dba Mystic Aquarium)—Mystic, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support infrastructure and equipment upgrades to improve wastewater system.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Andover—Andover, CT

  • Amount Requested: $305,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support equipment and facility improvements to community center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Beacon Falls—Beacon Falls, CT

  • Amount Requested: $10,469,848
  • Funding awarded for this project will support construction of Community, Senior, Library Center. 
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Middlefield—Middlefield, CT

  • Amount Requested: $4,600,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support construction and upgrades to emergency operations center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Norfolk—Norfolk, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support construction of a new firehouse. 
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Plymouth—Terryville, CT

  • Amount Requested: $8,972,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support the construction of a new public safety facility.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Putnam—Putnam, CT

  • Amount Requested: $284,625
  • Funding awarded for this project will support construction and renovations of the Town’s Emergency Medical Services Facility.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Somers—Somers, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,980,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support construction of community center. 
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Willington—Willington, CT

  • Amount Requested: $487,500
  • Funding awarded for this project will support renovation and remediation of firehouse and emergency operations center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Winchester—Winchester, CT

  • Amount Requested: $449,000
  • Funding awarded for this project will support construction of new police station.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.