The triangle region would receive more than $10.6 million in earmarked money from the spending subcommittee in Congress les by Chapel Hill Democratic Rep. David Price.

The House Committee on Appropriations passed the homeland security bill Friday. The earmarks are spending projects directed to home districts. The spending bill for th 2010 fiscal year must still pass the full House, and then goes to the Senate.

Nearly half of Price's total, $5 million, would go to a new joint center at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University, Barb Barrett reports. The N.C. Collaboratory for Bio-Preparedness would conduct suveillance of biological threats for the state. Democratic U.S. Reps. Brad Miller, of Raleigh, and Bob Etheridge, of Lillington, also sponsored the earmark.

Price also sent: $3.5 million to Research Triangle Institute, a non-profit organization, for a cyber security testing project; $1 million to LOGTECH in Chapel Hill, which provides Department of Defense training; $1 million to the N.C. Emergency Operations Center and $165,000 for the N.C. Division of Emergency Management.