Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today alerted taxpayers to the pork-barrel projects being added to the House versions of the fiscal 2007 Agriculture and Interior appropriations bills. 

“After scandals and even incarcerations involving the abuse of earmarks, House appropriators have picked up where they left off last year,” CAGW Vice President Dave Williams said.

Here is a sampling of some of the pork projects added by members of the House Appropriations Committee:

Agriculture Appropriations

• $20 million for eradication and control for glassy-winged sharpshooters/Pierce’s Disease
• $19.9 million for eradication and control of the Asian Long-horned Beetle
• $6.5 million for eradication and control of sudden oak death
• $3.6 million for climate forecasting in Florida
• $2.5 million for cotton research in Texas
• $1.9 million for red imported fire ants, in Stoneville, Mississippi
• $1.7 million for cereal crops in Fargo, North Dakota
• $1.14 million for the Center for Innovative Food Technology in Ohio
• $1.0 million for bovine genetics in Beltsville, Maryland
• $940,000 for brown tree snake management in Guam
• $878,046 for catfish genome research in Auburn, Alabama 
• $790,744 for coffee and cocoa research in Beltsville, Maryland
• $668,570 for diet nutrition and obesity research in New Orleans, Louisiana
• $490,354 for corn rootworm research in Ames, Iowa
• $459,000 for oyster post-harvest treatment in Florida
• $447,009 for barley food health benefits in Beltsville, Maryland
• $406,000 for agro ecology in Maryland
• $390,101 for honey bee research (Varroa Mites) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• $387,976 for manure management research (National Swine Research Center) in Ames, Iowa
• $373,824 for grapefruit juice/drug interaction research in Temple, Texas
• $365,156 for potato breeding research in Aberdeen, Idaho
• $244,077 for bee research in Weslaco, Texas
• $150,000 for blackbird control in Louisiana

Interior Appropriations

• $20 million for the Olympic National Park, Washington
• $17 million for the Phoenix, Arizona SW Health Center
• $16 million for the Southern Pine Beetle Forest Health Initiative
• $6.7 million for the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
• $6 million for the Chesapeake Bay program
• $5 million to acquire land for a Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania
• $2.96 million to replace the lighting system at Wind Care National Park, South Dakota
• $2 million for the Environmental Systems Center of Excellence of Syracuse University for Indoor environmental quality and urban ecosystems sustainability research
• $1.9 million for Allegheny National Forest recreation sites, Pennsylvania
• $1.4 million for gypsy moth slow-the-spread research
• $1 million for the National Hispanic Health Farm Workers Initiative
• $1 million for construction at the Pacific Crest National Scenic trial
• $1 million for the South Lake Tahoe wildfire protection as a grant to the South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District
• $1 million for the Florida Department of Citrus Abscission Chemical Studies
• $1 million for the Iowa State University project on mitigating emissions from egg farms
• $700,000 for the National Zoological Park to provide for staffing for the opening of the new Asia I exhibit and for enhanced pest control
• $700,000 for wolf monitoring in Idaho
• $375,000 for a Central California ozone study, San Joaquin Valleywise Air Pollution Study Agency
• $300,000 for ivory-billed woodpecker research
• $200,000 for landscape work at Gettysburg NMP
• $150,0000 for Northern Aplomado Falcon recovery efforts
• $72,000 for sudden oak death research
• $66,000 for the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation in Washington, DC.

Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.