Appropriations Financial Disclosures (FY27)

The following Community Project Funding requests for Fiscal Year 2027 were submitted by Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) to the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations. Submission to the committee does not guarantee a project will be funded. Information regarding which requests were selected for funding by the committee will be announced as soon as it is available. The following projects are listed alphabetically and will proceed to the next phase of review.

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1. Project: City College of New York Urban Waste Resource and Validation Facility

Recipient: Research Foundation of City University of New York

Account: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Scientific and Technical Research Services

Request: $4,000,000

Summary: This project will fund research infrastructure at the Urban Waste Resource Recovery Research Institute to test waste-to-value technologies under municipal wastewater operating conditions. This capital investment supports reactors, separation and recovery systems, analytical instrumentation, controls, data acquisition equipment, and the limited facility upgrades needed to install and operate that equipment safely.

2. Project: Expanding the Capabilities of the Harlem Materials Lab

Recipient: Research Foundation of the City University of New York

Account: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Scientific and Technical Research

Request: $1,510,139

Summary: This project will provide technology and equipment for a new translational research facility located in West Harlem designed to accelerate discovery and technology translation at the intersection of bio-inspired materials, laboratory automation, and artificial intelligence.