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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 2009 Description Kenai Peninsula Borough Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Research Amount $700,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Don Young (R-AK) Locations Cook Inlet, Alaska Recipients Borough of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Louisiana State University A&M to provide more information for a geodetic reference system to aid land planning in Louisiana Amount $700,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA)
Former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Locations Baton Rouge, Louisiana Recipients Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description The University of Alabama at Birmingham for nanotechnology research Amount $700,000 Sponsors Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Locations Birmingham, Alabama Recipients University of Alabama at Birmingham
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description University of South Alabama for hurricane monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico Amount $700,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Mobile, Alabama Recipients University of South Alabama
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Western Kentucky University to complete the development of a monitoring system that will collect real-time weather observations through a statewide grid of stations in Kentucky Amount $700,000 Sponsors Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Locations Bowling Green, Kentucky Recipients Western Kentucky University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Louisiana Geodetic Spatial Reference Center Amount $700,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA) Locations Baton Rouge, Louisiana Recipients Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge)
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 Hawaii Seafood Safety and Inspection, assistance for the Hawaii fishing and seafood industries to comply with new food and Drug Administration seafood regulations, Pacific Marine Resources, Inc. Amount $669,750 Sponsors Former Sen. Dan Inouye (D-HI) Locations Honolulu, Hawaii Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Gulf of Farralones NMS Exhibit, to enhance the public awareness of the Sanctuary and human dependence upon a healthy ocean ecosystem, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Amount $669,750 Sponsors Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
Former Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
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Locations San Mateo, California Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Eastern Michigan University Coupled Remote Sensing and Biological Monitoring of Invasive Plant Species and Their Impacts on the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Amount $650,000 Sponsors Former Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)
Former Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
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Locations Ypsilanti, Michigan Recipients Eastern Michigan University

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