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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

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Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description States of Maryland and Virginia to restore oyster habitat and plant disease free oysters in scientifically selected sites throughout the Chesapeake Bay Amount $4,600,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)
Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA)
Former Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
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Locations Richmond, Virginia Recipients State of Maryland; Commonwealth of Virginia
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description States of Maryland and Virginia to provide economic assistance, equally divided between States of Maryland and Virginia, to watermen and communities impacted by the Secretary of Commerce's blue crab disaster declaration of September 22, 2008 Amount $10,000,000 Sponsors Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Former Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Former Sen. John Warner (R-VA)
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Locations Richmond, Virginia Recipients State of Maryland; Commonwealth of Virginia
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description State of Wisconsin Height Modernization Program Amount $2,150,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Dave Obey (D-WI) Locations Madison, Wisconsin Recipients State of Wisconsin
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description State of Louisiana to conduct priority research and provide science support for the restoration of the Pontchartrain Basin Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) Locations Baton Rouge, Louisiana Recipients State of Louisiana
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description State of Alaska to support private industry participation in two international fishery advisory groups Amount $150,000 Sponsors Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Locations Juneau, Alaska Recipients State of Alaska
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Southwest Fisheries Center Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations California Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Southern New England Cooperative Research Initiative, cooperative research and monitoring projects in southern New England, Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation Amount $1,339,500 Sponsors Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) Locations Narragansett, Rhode Island Recipients Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests to continue a program to proactively conserve undeveloped river frontage and upland watershed Amount $100,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH)
Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Former Sen. John Sununu (R-NH)
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Locations Concord, New Hampshire Recipients Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Shrimp Industry Fishing Effort Research Continuation Amount $700,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Allen Boyd (D-FL)
Former Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA)
Former Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL)
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Locations Silver Spring, Maryland Recipients National Marine Fisheries Service
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Shedd Aquarium Invasive Species Program Amount $940,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) Locations Illinois Recipients John G. Shedd Aquarium (Chicago, Ill.)

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