Shelby, as the longtime Senate Republican appropriations leader, had a particularly outsized influence in the drafting of the gargantuan legislation. Here are the earmarks he put into the bill:
- $13 million for the Abbeville Municipal Airport Runway Extension
- $26 million for the Tuscaloosa National Airport (TCL) Runway Extension
- $100 million for the Woosley Finnell Bridge
- $200 million for the Alabama State Port Authority Intermodal and Terminal Expansion
- $50 million for a Revolving Loan Fund to benefit the city of Mobile, Alabama
- $35 million for the Marion Military Institute
- $45 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
- $2.6 million for the Deepening Study for Tennessee—Tombigbee Waterway (TTWW), AL and MS and Black Warrior and Tombigbee (BWT) Rivers; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- $6.7 million for the Alabama River Lakes, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- $356 million for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, GA, AL & FL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- $7.25 million for the Black Warrior & Tombigbee Rivers (BWT), AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- $7 million for the Dauphin Island Bay, AL; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- $250,000 for the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, Lake Seminole, FL, AL & GA; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- $2.25 million for The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.
- $35 million for the Spring Hill College, AL, for facilities and equipment
- $76 million for the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, AL, for facilities and equipment
- $50 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, AL, for a permanent endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty in science and engineering.
