Proposed federal government funding, not included in the economic recovery package, includes continued funding for the Missouri River pipeline project in the West River area.

At $23 million, the Mni Wiconi construction is the largest of area projects.

The Rapid City-based Chiesman Foundation for Democracy would receive $714,000 to establish a Center for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders over the next three years.

Foundation Director John Usera said the grant would help provide training and classes statewide for parents and educators who work with children affected by fetal alcohol disorders. He said Sen. Tim Johnson's staff and educators who saw a need for the program approached the Chiesman Foundation.

Usera, a former dean of the college of education at Black Hills State University, said the project meshes with the Chiesman Foundation's purpose. "We are about helping develop healthy citizens and getting youth to be more active in their own role in decision making," he said, and that includes youth who deal with fetal alcohol issues.

Johnson said in a release that the funding is part of the omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government this fiscal year. The Senate is expected to vote on the package in the next two weeks.

Other West River projects and the sponsoring agencies include:

Commerce-Justice-Science

- $750,000 for Oglala Sioux Tribe law enforcement

- $250,000 for Oglala Sioux Tribe 911 system upgrades

- $100,000 for Rosebud Sioux Tribe Boys and Girls Club

Transportation-HUD

- $2 million for Pine Ridge reservation's Cuny Table Road (BIA Route 2)

- $237,500 for the Four Bands Community Fund in Eagle Butte

- $237,500 for the Lakota Fund in Kyle

Labor-HHS-Education

- $571,000 for the Oglala Lakota College nursing program

- $476,000 for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's suicide prevention programs

- $381,000 for the Oglala Sioux Tribe's diabetes program

- $380,000 for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's alcohol and substance abuse treatment center

- $190,000 for the Community Health Center of the Black Hills

- $167,000 to replace the Oglala Sioux Tribe ambulance building

Interior

- $1 million for the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative (based in Rapid City)

- $300,000 for Rapid City's Source Water Protection Initiative

- $300,000 for the Southern Black Hills Water System Infrastructure Enhancement

- $150,000 to preserve the collection at the Days of '76 Museum in Deadwood