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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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Description Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Pilot Program: Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) Amount $1,410,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Former Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
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Locations Unknown Location Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Preserving endangered wetlands, to preserve endangered wetlands and help stop severe erosion in Port Aransas and along the Corpus Christi ship channel, Port Aransas Nature Preserve Amount $329,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Locations Texas Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Pribilof Islands Cleanup and Economic Development Amount $5,297,000 Sponsors No sponsor indicated Locations Alaska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Project for Public Spaces, preservation and revitalization of the Moore Street Market Amount $235,000 Sponsors Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) Locations Brooklyn, New York Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Project STORM Air Quality Initiative, air quality research, University of Northern Iowa Amount $613,000 Sponsors Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Former Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Locations Cedar Falls, Iowa Recipients
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 Radar technology study, a feasibility study to determine the applicability of advanced radar technologies to cover the radar hole in northeastern Wyoming with low level radar coverage, Advanced Radar Technologies Amount $94,000 Sponsors Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Former Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Locations Wyoming Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Real time monitoring and observation of marine mammals, to continue the real time monitoring of subsistence harvest, haul-out and shoreline observations of marine mammals Amount $117,500 Sponsors Former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Locations Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula Region, Alaska Recipients Aleut Pacific Marine Resources Observers
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Regional Climate Centers Amount $3,572,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Former Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL)
Former Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
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Locations Louisiana; Nebraska; Nevada; New York; South Carolina Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Advanced Undersea Vehicle, for an advanced undersea mapping sonar, Mystic Aquarium--Institute for Exploration Amount $401,850 Sponsors Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)
Locations Mystic, Connecticut Recipients

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