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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 Assisting smaller fisheries-dependent coastal communities, funds will be used to assist the smaller fisheries-dependent coastal communities of the Gulf of Alaska with the regulatory process by participating on research boards, and developing management plans, Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition Amount $188,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Locations Alaska Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Biotechnology Research Park in close proximity to an academic medical center offering opportunities for scientific and commercial synergies and serving as a catalyst for economic development In Mississippi's capital city, University of Mississippi Amount $7,332,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Jackson, Mississippi Recipients University of Mississippi (Oxford)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Bronx River Restoration Amount $940,000 Sponsors Former Rep. José Serrano (D-NY) Locations New York, New York Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description B-WET California Amount $2,350,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
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Locations California Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description B-WET Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Amount $0 Sponsors Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) Locations Maryland Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Center for Aquatic Resource Management, to work together with state and federal partners to develop and implement strategies for sustainable practices that will protect and restore aquatic resources, Auburn University Amount $1,551,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL)
Locations Auburn, Alabama Recipients Auburn University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Center for Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management, operations to conduct fisheries based research in the Northern Gulf of Mexico from in-shore shallow waters out across the continental shelf Amount $2,632,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama Recipients Dauphin Island (Ala.) Sea Lab
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Center for Marine Aquaculture, to construct a center to provide scientists, engineers, and economists the capability to apply recent advances in aquaculture, biotechnology, pathology, nutrition, genetics, engineering, microbiology, and economics to remove the technical and profitability constraints to growth of a marine aquaculture industry, University of Southern Mississippi Amount $7,520,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Stennis, Mississippi Recipients University of Southern Mississippi
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Center for the Great Lakes, conservation education, Shedd Aquarium Amount $260,000 Sponsors Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Locations Chicago, Illinois 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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