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Check your water earmarks
The House Appropriations Committee has compiled its nationwide list of earmarks included in the $410 billion omnibus bill. The measure passed the House Feb. 25 and was sent to the Senate. Earmarks order federal agencies to spend money on specific projects. The special appropriations are put in the spending bill by individual members of Congress. About two years ago, when Democrats won control of the House, the Appropriations Committee began publishing online the full list of earmarks requested by House members.
Senate earmarks are included in the bill, but they aren't separately published online with the name of the Senator who requested the spending.
Most of the drinking water and wastewater earmarks are included in the sections on Energy and Water Development or Interior and Environment. Some others may be found in the Agriculture section and it is possible there are water-related earmarks in some other areas.
Download a pdf file of the 2009 House Energy and Water Development earmarks.
Download a pdf file of the 2009 House Interior and Environment earmarks.
Download a pdf file of the 2009 House Agriculture earmarks.
Source: House Appropriations Committee
Departments and Agencies included in the House spending earmarks pdfs:
| House Energy and Water | House Interior and Environment | House Agriculture |
Department of Energy |
Department of the Interior (Except Bureau of Reclamation and Central Utah Project) |
Department of Agriculture (Except Forest Service) |
Department of Defense-Civil; Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers-Civil |
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation |
Farm Credit Administration |
Department of the Interior; Bureau of Reclamation; Central Utah Project |
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (HHS) |
Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation |
Appalachian Regional Commission |
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board |
Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board |
Commission of Fine Arts | Food and Drug Administration (HHS) |
| Delta Regional Authority | Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality |
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| Denali Commission | Forest Service (USDA) |
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
Indian Health Service | |
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board |
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development |
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Tennessee Valley Authority |
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
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National Capital Planning Commission |
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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities (Except Institute of Museum and Library Services) |
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| National Gallery of Art | ||
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (HHS, formerly EPA/Superfund) |
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Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation |
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| Presidio Trust | ||
| Smithsonian Institution | ||
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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Eisenhower Memorial Commission |
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
