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COVID-19 Relief Bill Includes Funding for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
December 22, 2020
The massive COVID relief bill includes $330 million in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
Christine Crissman is the Executive Director of the Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay. She says it is great news for the Great Lakes State and its residents. “To be able to have something and have solid, sustainable funding for the next few years is a really, really big deal.”
One might argue it’s not COVID-related, but funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative found its way in front of Congress – by way of COVID Relief. Crissman says, “We heard some rumblings that this was going to be part of the Covid package. But to find that they approved it and at the levels of funding, it really doesn’t matter how it happened. But we’re just really excited that it did.”
WASHINGTONÂ â On Capitol Hill, they re called Christmas trees, but these end-of-year, rush-out-the-door spending bills that Congress crafts would be better labeled Santa s bags of toys, as they are chock full of gifts for states both blue and red.
The $1.4 trillion bill that Congress rushed to passage this week should make this an especially Merry Christmas for anyone concerned with the Great Lakes or the goal of one day being able to go to Canada again.
The bill funds federal government operations through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, 2021, and it includes items that will benefit the Great Lakes, as well as a measure that could eventually make cross-border travel easier.
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