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

Congressionally Directed Spending – Fiscal Year 2026

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: $600,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovations of health facility.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station—New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $267,000
  • This project will provide funding for tick and tick-borne pathogen surveillance.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Essex Library Association—Essex, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,048,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility improvements.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Florence Griswold Museum—Old Lyme, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility upgrades.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Library Association of Warehouse Point—East Windsor, CT

  • Amount Requested: $330,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility improvements to aging library infrastructure.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Lower Connecticut River Land Trust—East Haddam, CT

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

O’Neill Theater Center—Waterford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,587,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility improvements.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Sea Research Foundation dba Mystic Aquarium—Mystic, CT

  • Amount Requested: $958,000
  • This project will provide funding for upgrades to Animal Rescue Clinic.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Sea Research Foundation dba Mystic Aquarium—Mystic, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for infrastructure and equipment upgrades to improve wastewater system.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Andover—Andover, CT

  • Amount Requested: $291,000
  • This project will provide funding for equipment and facility improvements to community center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Norfolk—Norfolk, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for construction of a new firehouse.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Plymouth—Terryville, CT

  • Amount Requested: $5,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for the construction of a new public safety facility.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Willington—Willington, CT

  • Amount Requested: $525,000
  • This project will provide funding for renovation and remediation of firehouse and emergency operations center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Windham Regional Community Council, Inc.—Willimantic, CT

  • Amount Requested: $795,000
  • This project will provide funding for facility upgrades.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.