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HIGHLIGHTS
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Manufacturing “Hill Day”
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Contaminated Sediments
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Great Lakes Water Resources
Manufacturing “Hill Day”
The American
Small Manufacturers Coalition on Thursday, March 17, is sponsoring several
events on Capitol Hill for small manufacturers and CEOs of Manufacturing Extension
Partnership (MEP) Centers from across the country. A reception will
run from 4:30 pm until 6:30 pm in the
Rayburn Foyer.
In other MEP
news, the Senate Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH),
accepted an amendment, introduced by Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to the fiscal 2006 Budget Resolution calling for
full funding of MEP. Senators this week will distribute a letter
seeking MEP appropriations. Contact: Kris Sarri at the
Northeast-Midwest Senate Coalition (202/224-0606).
Contaminated Sediments
The
Northeast-Midwest Institute recently completed a two-year study with
economists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and San Francisco
State University to estimate how much the overall value of residential
property values in the City of Waukegan, Illinois, and surrounding Lake
County communities might
be influenced by the cleanup of contaminated sediments in Waukegan
Harbor. Waukegan Harbor is one
of 41 Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes region.
Using local data and advanced analytical techniques, the study concluded
that full cleanup of the harbor could increase residential property values
in the City of Waukegan 10 to
15 percent (equivalent to hundreds of million of dollars), with additional
value realized elsewhere in Lake County. It is
hoped the study’s
results will encourage contaminated-sediment remediation
in the Waukegan Harbor area,
as well as provide leverage for the use of economic benefits analysis in
Area of Concern decision-making, generally. The February 2005 issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research -- J. Great Lakes Res. 30(4) --
contains an article describing the results of this study in greater
detail. Contact: Nicole Mays at the
Northeast-Midwest Institute (202/544 5200).
Great Lakes Water Resources
The House and Senate Great Lakes Task Forces are circulating
letters among other members in support of Great Lakes provisions
to be included in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). The
provisions relate to operations of the electric dispersal barrier in the Chicago Sanitary
& Ship Canal, the allowance of in-kind contributions for existing Great
Lakes programs and clarification of cost-sharing, the
expansion of the beneficial use of dredge material, and reauthorization of
the Great Lakes Remedial Action Plans & Sediment Remediation program
and the Great Lakes Sediment Management Program. Contact: Joy Mulinex with the Great Lakes Task
Forces (202/224-1211).
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