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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 2008 Description Mill River Habitat Restoration Amount $376,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Locations Mill River, Massachusetts Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Mississippi Center for Conservation and Biodiversity for construction of a research facility Amount $1,600,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Jackson, Mississippi Recipients Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Mississippi State University for construction for a research and technology park Amount $6,500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS)
Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
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Locations Starkville, Mississippi Recipients Mississippi State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Mississippi State University to more effectively link local, state, regional, and national organizations concerned with Northern Gulf wetlands issues and management Amount $4,500,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS)
Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
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Locations Starkville, Mississippi Recipients Mississippi State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Mississippi University for Women provide quality scientific, inquiry-based learning for grades K - 12 in-service and pre-service teachers Amount $375,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) Locations Columbus, Mississippi Recipients Mississippi University for Women
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Mobile County Commission Gulf Coast Flood Elevation Study, Mobile County, Alabama Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jo Bonner (R-AL)
Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Locations Mobile, Alabama Recipients Mobile County, Ala.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Monitoring and restoration of salmon stocks, funds will be used to allow the monitoring and restoration of depressed salmon stocks under the management of one organization that serves and represents all affected fishermen, Bering Sea Fishermen's Association Amount $188,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Locations Alaska Recipients Bering Sea Fishermen's Association
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Monitoring of Lake Erie Water Quality with Remote Sensing Amount $500,000 Sponsors Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH)
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Former Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH)
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Locations Bowling Green, Ohio Recipients Bowling Green State University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Monkfish and Migratory Trawl Surveys, collection of data to accurately and efficiently manage fish resources, Garden State Seafood Assoc Amount $1,339,500 Sponsors Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
Locations Cape May, New Jersey Recipients Garden State Seafood Association
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Monterey Bay Aquarium Bluefin Tuna Tagging and Research Program Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
Former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Locations Monterey, California Recipients Monterey Bay (Calif.) Aquarium

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