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Welcome! This site is used by a number of United States Senate offices to process various requests and applications. You will be required to create an account and fill out a form to submit and manage your requests.
This form is for Community Initiated Project (CIP) requests - also known as Congressionally Directed Spending or Community Project Funding - for the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations process for Oregon Senators Merkley and Wyden. CIP Requests are requests for one-time funds for a specific project. Please fill out this form in its entirety. At any point you can save your requests and return to finish them later. However, once you submit, submission is final.
This form must be completed and submitted by 11:59PM PST on Sunday, February 23, 2025. This form and its deadline may be subject to change pending guidance from the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Please note that Senate rules require our offices to disclose and provide a description on our website of all congressionally directed spending items that we request. Submission of a request does not guarantee the award of federal funding. The requesting entity must comply with any request presented to them by the Government Accountability Office or any other federal entity performing an audit, investigation, or oversight function. Any funding award associated with this request does not guarantee support or funding in future fiscal years.
Our programmatic request form, which are requests for Congress to fund an authorized federal program at a specific level or to include language directing a federal agency to implement a program in a specific way, can be found here.