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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 Urban Coast Institute, program support that establishes critical links necessary for integration of policy management decisions related to regional and coastal watershed, Monmouth University Amount $893,000 Sponsors Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
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Locations West Long Branch, New Jersey Recipients Urban Coast Institute
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description DUNE System Assessment and Shoreline Change Analysis Amount $869,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)
Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
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Locations New Jersey Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regional Climate Center program Amount $850,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA)
Former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Locations Baton Rouge, Louisiana Recipients Southern Regional Climate Center
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Iowa State University for a research initiative to improve understanding of surface winds and their damaging effects Amount $850,000 Sponsors Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Former Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Locations Ames, Iowa Recipients Iowa State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of Mississippi for training, education and research Amount $850,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Locations Oxford, Mississippi Recipients University of Mississippi (Oxford)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Tornado and Hurricane Operations and Research, to improve detection, tracking, and forecasting of tornadic thunderstorms and land-falling hurricanes in the Southeast United States, University of Alabama at Huntsville Amount $846,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Huntsville, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Science Consortium for Ocean Replenishment at Mote Marine Lab Amount $846,000 Sponsors Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Former Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL)
Locations Sarasota, Florida Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description NH Commercial Fishermen Sustainability Initiative Amount $825,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Locations Concord, New Hampshire Recipients New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Meteorological Equipment at Valparaiso University Amount $817,800 Sponsors Former Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN)
Former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Former Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN)
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Locations Valparaiso, Indiana Recipients Valparaiso University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Illinois Height Modernization Amount $800,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL)
Former Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL)
Locations Champaign, Illinois Recipients Illinois State Geological Survey

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