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Fiscal Year(s)

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

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Description Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Eye-On-The-Sky, continue and expand meteorology reporting, education and outreach efforts, Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Amount $229,400 Sponsors Former Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Locations St. Johnsbury, Vermont Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Fisheries Infrastructure, Investigation, Assessment and Improvement Project Amount $376,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Tuscaloosa, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Fishery Survey Vessel (Number 5 Shallow Draft) Amount $940,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS)
Locations Unknown Location Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Fishing Mortality Education Program, to develop a local educational program for K-12 students and other user groups in order to minimize discard or release mortality of reef fisheries Amount $94,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Orange Beach, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Reef Fish Monitoring and Research Amount $940,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) Locations Florida Recipients Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Geodesy/Height Modernization Amount $352,500 Sponsors Former Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL) Locations Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Geodetic Survey Amount $376,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Geospatial Data Analysis Center, to provide weather stations for the purpose of providing near-real time data on soil moisture and temperature, Alabama A&M University Amount $423,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Normal, Alabama Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Groundline Exchange Program, to coordinate a Maine groundline exchange program providing financial assistance to lobstermen by enabling them to purchase "whale-safe" rope in exchange for their existing groundline, Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation Amount $376,000 Sponsors Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Locations Maine 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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