[CPEO-BIF] Michigan state brownfields funding

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfield funds dwindle
Current funds to lapse by year's end; state officials look for new sources

By Amy Lane
Crain's Detroit Business (MI)
February 25, 2008	

LANSING - Michigan's stream of money for contaminated-site cleanups is 
about to run dry.

That has state officials eyeing the potential of a new environmental 
bond issue that could go on the ballot this fall and in part provide 
some $100 million annually in cleanup funding.

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says that money - 
mostly from Michigan's $675 million 1998 environmental bond - will be 
depleted by year's end, and, without a new source of funds, ongoing 
cleanups around the state will halt and new projects won't start.

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For the entire article, see
http://crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080225/SUB/802250325/1070

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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