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Where are this year's earmarks
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 Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center Amount $11,060,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Unknown Location 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 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 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 Geodetic Survey Amount $376,000 Sponsors Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) Locations Kentucky Recipients
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 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 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 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 Fisheries Infrastructure, Investigation, Assessment and Improvement Project Amount $376,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Locations Tuscaloosa, Alabama Recipients

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