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View earmark details View Earmarks by Bill Section: Department of Commerce

Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 No. Total Amount
Earmarks No. 512 Total Amount $1,276,541,038
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Earmark Details Year Description Amount

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Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Lake Erie Monitoring at Bowling Green State University Amount $352,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-OH)
Former Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH)
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
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Locations Ohio Recipients Bowling Green State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Research Amount $352,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
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Locations Alaska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Bowling Green State University Monitoring of Lake Erie Water Quality with Remote Sensing Amount $355,000 Sponsors Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH)
Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
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Locations Bowling Green, Ohio Recipients Bowling Green State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description NOAA National Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters to purchase, install, and maintain rain gauges Amount $360,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Honolulu County, Hawaii Recipients National Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Mississippi University for Women provide quality scientific, inquiry-based learning for grades K - 12 in-service and pre-service teachers Amount $375,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Columbus, Mississippi Recipients Mississippi University for Women
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Promoting healthy wild salmon fisheries Amount $376,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Locations Yukon River, Alaska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Fisheries Infrastructure, Investigation, Assessment and Improvement Project Amount $376,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Tuscaloosa, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Groundline Exchange Program, to coordinate a Maine groundline exchange program providing financial assistance to lobstermen by enabling them to purchase "whale-safe" rope in exchange for their existing groundline, Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation Amount $376,000 Sponsors Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Locations Maine Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Geodetic Survey Amount $376,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Mill River Habitat Restoration Amount $376,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Locations Mill River, Massachusetts Recipients

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