[CPEO-BIF] Michigan bond proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DEQ drafts $1.3B cleanup plan: Bond would target contaminated sites, water

By Amy Lane
Crain's Detroit Business (MI)
May 19, 2008
	
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is laying 
groundwork for a $1.3 billion environmental bond proposal that would 
include money to clean up and redevelop contaminated sites, protect and 
restore Great Lakes water quality and preserve land.

The DEQ hopes to place the proposal before voters in November and is 
making its case to interest groups throughout the state as it targets 
June legislative action.

"I'm meeting with virtually every stakeholder group that this proposal 
has any impact on, any significance to," said DEQ Director Steven 
Chester. "I am asking them for a sense of whether or not they think 
we're in the ballpark. I've not heard anybody say 'no.' And then, 
absolutely, I am looking for their support."

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For the entire article, see
http://crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080519/SUB/805190345/1069

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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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