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Spending bill includes work at Crater Lake The spending bill approved Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives includes more than $45 million for Oregon projects, including restoration work at Crater Lake. The biggest chunk is $11 million for the final installment of federal financing for Portland's westside light rail. Oregon also gets $9 million of $58 million passed for the administration's West Coast salmon initiative. Other items include $1.73 million for restoring buildings at Rim Village in Crater Lake National Park and nearly $1.17 million for completing The Dalles Riverfront trail, a nine-mile path connecting the Columbia River Discovery Center to The Dalles Dam. The bill also provides $5 million to pay the Port of Tillamook for damage suffered in the 1996 flood and $1.3 million to compensate farmers and ranchers in Harney County for damage from flooding of Harney and Malheur lakes. Other allocations include: $500,000 to buy about 100 acres as a part of the South Eugene Wetlands project, for which the government has already bought about 1.200 acres $500,000 to buy land for use in the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex $6.5 million for safety improvements to U.S. 26 including passing lanes on both sides of the Blue Mountain summit $3 million for work on a new National Guard armory in Lane County $1.7 million for temperature control structures at McKenzie River dams $2.5 million for the Oregon Medical Laser Center at St. Vincent Hospital & Medical Center in Portland $1 million to Lewis & Clark College for a building to house a collection of artifacts in commemoration of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition $500,000 for high-speed rail crossing improvements in Linn and Multnomah counties $500,000 to rebuild the Historic Columbia River Highway from Starvation Creek to Viento State Park $1 million for Oregon Health Sciences University's Health Aging Demonstration Project $500,000 for Portland State University to expand Millar Library $700,000 for replacing toilets and septic tanks at Waldo Lake Mail Tribune Copyright � The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA