[CPEO-BIF] Michigan cleanup fund low on money

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State pollution cleanup fund running low on money

By TIM MARTIN
The Associated Press
MLive.com
March 19, 2006

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A program to clean up pollution and redevelop 
property in Michigan is running low on cash.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has helped renovate old industrial sites, 
protect water supplies and improve parks for nearly a decade. But state 
officials say there's not enough money to add new sites to the project 
list in the upcoming budget year and work may have to slow down on jobs 
that already have begun.

The fund's budget problems are expected to worsen in 2008. That could 
leave lawmakers scrambling for a way to keep the program running.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-32/1142776748238100.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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