Congress approves major boost in Great Lakes funding
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
Large waves on Lake Michigan batter the south pier at Grand Haven State Park in Grand Haven, Michigan on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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Ten months after being approved in U.S. House with heavy bipartisan support, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act has passed the Senate and is headed for President Donald Trump’s desk.
The bipartisan bill would reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative set to expire at the end of FY 2021 for another five years, upping current funding levels of $300M to $375M in 2022 and then increasing funds by an additional $25M per year until hitting $475M in 2026.
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More than $2.7 billion has been pumped into projects to clean up old pollution and improve habitat. 8:00 am, Dec. 10, 2020 ×
A crane operator unloads sand from a barge onto Interstate Island in April while heavy equipment operators move the sand around the island as part of a $1.4 million project part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiaive to raise the tiny island and protect nesting terns. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
Federal, state and local officials on Wednesday celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that’s been pumping billions of dollars into cleaning up toxic hotspots and restoring habitat along the region’s most degraded waterways.