South Dakota will receive millions of federal dollars for military, education, water, transportation, agriculture and tribal projects included in the omnibus spending bill Congress approved this week. President Bush is expected to sign the huge spending bill.

Sens. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and John Thune, R-S.D., and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D., voted for the bill.

Following is a partial list of projects in the bill affecting western South Dakota, as provided by the congressional delegation:

Military Construction and Veterans Affairs

* $16.6 million for Ellsworth Air Force Base Civil Engineer Administrative Facility

* $900,000 for South Dakota National Guard, Rapid City, Joint Forces Headquarters

Transportation and Housing and Urban Development

* $382,000 for South Dakota School of Mines and Technology "Connector Road"

* $196,000 for city of Spearfish, Industrial Park Infrastructure

* $1,658,160, BIA Route 14 for Oglala Sioux Tribe

* $1,960,000, Kenel Road Rehabilitation and Resurfacing, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

* $686,000 for Ellsworth Air Force Base Access Road Improvements

* $686,000 for paving and road improvements on U.S. Highway 212 and S.D. Highway 63 near Eagle Butte and the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation

* $617,400 for road improvements on S.D. Highway 44 and S.D. Highway 73, serving the Pine Ridge Reservation

* $581,728 for road improvements near Wakpala, serving the Standing Rock Indian Reservation

* $548,800 for Children's Home Society in Sioux Falls

Interior

* $492,200 for Box Elder to build a new well and reservoir

* $590,640 for Rapid City Source Water Protection Initiative

* $1 million for the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative

* $984,400 for Lady C Ranch Land Acquisition

Labor-HHS-Education

* $325,217 for Community Health Center of the Black Hills

* $95,305 for South Dakota Symphony and Black Hills Symphony

* $95,305 for West River Foundation for the Midwest Alliance for Professional Learning and Leadership

* $143,449 for Youth and Family Services in Rapid City

* $80,567 for the Rapid City Area School District for its school-based health clinic

Financial Services and General Government

* $500,000 for N2TEC Institute, Rapid City, High Performance Regions Initiative

* $282,000 for South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Black Hills Nanoscale Minerals Institute Operations

Agriculture

* $465,717 for Ruminant Nutrition Consortium, which is led by South Dakota State University and assesses available resources and opportunities for expanding ruminant livestock in the upper Midwest

* $265,131 for SDSU Seed Technology Center

* $223,425 for crop integration and production research at SDSU that integrates pulse crops and other emerging opportunities into regional production systems

* $497,493 for feedstock conversion within SDSU research and extension programs for biomass energy (switchgrass breeding, fuels, power generation, bio-oils), gasification of biomass and agriculture co-products, and new anaerobic digestion processes

* $426,990 for the International Arid Lands Consortium, which includes SDSU, four other U.S. land-grant universities, and academic institutions in Israel, Jordan and Egypt and focuses on improving agricultural production and safeguarding natural resources in dry environments

Commerce, Justice, and Science

* $893,000 for the Oglala Sioux Tribe Criminal Justice System

* $446,500 for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Criminal Justice System

* $223,250 for St. Joseph's Indian School for expansion of residential facilities and programs

* $455,900 for family support and forensic interviewing services at the South Dakota Children's Home Society

Energy and Water Development

* $26.56 million for the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System

* $28.19 million for Mni Wiconi construction, plus $9.5 million for operations and maintenance

* $1.9 million for the Big Sioux Flood Control Project

* $2.9 million for Perkins County Rural Water System

* $3.9 million in construction and $2.8 million in operations and maintenance to assist the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe manage recreational areas, wildlife restoration plans and cultural and historic sites as a result of the thousands of acres of land in South Dakota that were lost due to construction of the reservoirs along the Missouri River.

Additional information outlining specific South Dakota-related projects included in the Omnibus can be found on Johnson's website at http://www.Johnson.Senate.gov.