In addition to programmatic funding to help Alaskans, Murkowski was able to secure investments specific to 44 Alaska communities, projects that have been requested and prioritized by local governments and organizations in this bill:

• Akiachak: $1.24 million for the planning and design of a public safety facility. 
• Akutan: $3.5 million to construct a transload dock facility at Akutan’s small boat harbor to facilitate commercial cargo loading and unloading. 
• Anchorage: $947,000 to build a training center for childcare education, which will provide training for high school students and adults in rural communities to become certified in Early Childhood Education. 
• Anchorage: $287,000 to Anchorage Neighborhood Housing Services to upgrade a fire alarm system for workforce housing.
• Anchorage: $333,000 to install new sprinkler systems and fire suppression systems in licensed group homes for the Arc of Anchorage, which provides an array of disability services for Alaskans with developmental disabilities, behavioral and mental health challenges.
• Buckland: $973,000 to finish construction of four HUD-funded homes for Buckland, which has doubled in size in the last decade. 
• Chenega: $2.47 million to install a breakwater (wave attenuator) to protect Chenega’s harbor and shoreline from increasing winds and waves. 
• Cordova: $1.4 million to assist in the purchase of a building, renovations, and additional shelter rooms to be used to support victims of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as to support youth and group activities. 
• Delta Junction: $1.34 million toward the purchase of a building for a health clinic. 
• Diomede: $500,000 to renovate a duplex for teacher housing in Diomede that was impacted by a fire in 2015. 
• Emmonak: $5 million to construct a new 7,000-square-foot domestic violence shelter in Emmonak. 
• Fairbanks: $1 million to construct eight units of affordable housing on Fairbanks Neighborhood Housing Services-owned lots. This will support six three-bedroom units and two two-bedroom units, plus parking and green space. 
• Gambell: $3.75 million to construct two permanent housing for medical personnel on the island of St. Lawrence. 
• Girdwood: $980,000 to provide utility connections for a childcare facility in a community that lacks adequate childcare.
• Juneau: $1.5 million to provide health and safety improvements to the Fireweed Place apartment buildings, allowing for safer all-weather access for seniors.
• Juneau: $5 million to construct 51 units of permanent low-income and recovery housing. 
• Juneau: $500,000 to construct a warehouse to allow the Southeast Alaska Food Bank to store all donated and purchased food on-site, rather than in two rented offsite spaces. The Food Bank serves an average of 300 to 400 people every week. 
• Ketchikan: $2 million to construct an essential services building (S’eenáa Hit Navigation Center), which will provide services for people experiencing homelessness in Ketchikan and surrounding areas. It will offer a centralized space for community providers to deliver a broad suite of services to improve unhoused individuals’ quality of life. 
• Ketchikan: $650,000 to perform preconstruction, engineering, and design activities for a new ferry to transport passengers between Ketchikan and the Ketchikan Airport. 
• Ketchikan: $1 million to create improved facilities for community services to seniors and Alaskans with disabilities. 
• Kodiak: $10 million to replace the float system at the St. Herman Harbor, which provides safe moorage for over 400 commercial fishing vessels in Kodiak. 
• Koyukuk: $2.5 million to fund dust mitigation activities on unpaved roads. Communities isolated from the contiguous highway system face significant health and environmental challenges due to the high volumes of airborne dust from unpaved roads in the summertime. 
• Manokotak: $1.7 million to complete a feasibility study to determine the viability of constructing or improving the Snake River Road, the mooring site, and barge landing in Manokotak. 
• Minto: $1.3 million to demolish the existing teacher housing duplex and build two new additions (bringing the total number of units to six) and renovate the building into two 3-bedroom units to address the lack of housing for educators. 
• Nikiski: $1 million to expand the Nikiski Senior Center’s available senior housing to 16 units. 
• Nome: $4 million to build an 18-unit housing complex that would provide housing for teachers and public safety officers. 
• Nome: $463,000 to preserve and restore a historic building to be used as a cultural community center and camp with living quarters, youth camps, and community gatherings. 
• Nome: $5 million to construct a Rapid Response Facility for fire and emergency response fleets. 
• Nulato: $4 million to develop a small port with modern waterfront infrastructure on the Yukon River to improve safety, reduce erosion, and prevent flooding of streets
• Nulato: $2.71 million to address the critical shortage of adequate, affordable housing by constructing 10 new single-family homes and housing infrastructure
• Ouzinkie: $900,000 to design and build a standard freight and passenger loading dock alongside the boat launch ramp. 
• Petersburg: $2 million to replace the Banana Point floating breakwater system, which is over 30 years old and decaying due to age and damage. Banana Point is on the southern edge of Mitkof Island and supports water transport between Wrangell and Petersburg. 
• Southeast Alaska: $2.5 million to purchase five multi-purpose modular buildings that would enable first responders, usually Village Public Safety Officers, to carry out day-to-day operations and emergency response. These modules would feature office space, sleeping quarters, and a safe space for domestic violence victims and serve the communities of Angoon, Hydaburg, Kake, Thorne Bay, and Pelican. 
• Sitka: $1 million to expand space at the domestic violence shelter and construct a 1,400-sq. foot building on the shelter property to provide housing to victims of domestic violence and office space for staff. 
• Soldotna: $3.9 million to reconstruct Marydale Avenue from its intersection with the Kenai Spur Highway. Marydale Avenue serves as the primary access to medical, retail, government, and educational sectors in the core of Soldotna. 
• St. Michael: $2 million to purchase and install a mobile harvest unit to support the community’s traditional subsistence practices. 
• St. Paul: $1.5 million to renovate the St. Paul Island Fire Station and replace its roof, siding, and insulation. 
• Thorne Bay: $1.56 million for the construction of a new Fire/EMS Building to serve South Thorne Bay residents. 
• Togiak: $3.51 million to construct an emergency access road to provide an alternative route across wetlands from Togiak Height Road to the Togiak School. This emergency route would provide a secondary option to the designated emergency location in the event residents have to evacuate Togiak due to flooding or a tsunami. 
• Unalaska: $5 million for the rehabilitation of Captains Bay Road, a high traffic corridor for pedestrians as well as heavy trucks in the fishing, shipping, and support industries vital to Unalaska’s economy. 
• Wasilla: $3 million to design and extend the Wasilla Airport runway to serve larger aircrafts, including the acquisition of a 53-acre parcel for additional infrastructure. This will allow larger aircrafts, particularly cargo carriers, to use the airport in Wasilla. 
• Wasilla: $825,000 to build a five-bedroom tribal group home, for Alaska Native children in need of care, support, or supervision.
• Willow: $3 million to replace the Willow EMS/Fire Station and consolidate the Caswell Fire Service Area and the Willow Fire Service Area into one new fire service area to be known as the Willow Caswell Fire Service Area. 
• Wrangell: $2.5 million to fund construction of an emergency access road to provide a second access to the Wrangell community for emergency response, medical services, and other services.

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