Re: E-M:/ Proposed 2-cent gas fee would clean up tank sites

[sgutt@umich.edu]

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My two cents:  let's add another two cents to help fund mass transit 
capital projects and operating expenses in the state.

Steve Gutterman

--On Monday, November 21, 2005 5:29 PM -0500 Dave Dempsey 
<davedem@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Enviro-Mich message from "Dave Dempsey" <davedem@hotmail.com>
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> Drivers could be asked to pay more per gallon at the gas pump to fund
> cleanup of little-known fuel spills occurring underground all over the
> state.
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> More than 7,000 leaking underground storage tank sites statewide -
> including 414 in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties - are contaminating
> the ground and water sources almost 20 years after federal laws were
> passed to clean them up.
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> The state's goal is 600 cleanups a year, but only 265 were completed
> during the past year because there wasn't enough money.
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> http://lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051121/NEWS01/511210349/1150
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