GLIN==> U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces $3.2 Million in Funding For Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife

Midwest Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS),
Tom Melius, recently announced more than $3.2 million in Federal funding
under the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act to support
Regional Projects that will expand mass marking capabilities for lake
trout and salmon, and protect important habitat surrounding state and
federal wildlife refuges of southwest Lake Erie. Both projects are
supported by an $8 million allocation from the administration’s Great
Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI).

Regional Projects through the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration
Act are projects accomplished by the USFWS on behalf of the applicants.
Applications for regional projects must involve more than one Great
Lakes watershed, be submitted by one or more state agency directors
and/or tribal chairs and reviewed by a 24 member Proposal Review
Committee that makes funding recommendations to the USFWS.  Once
approved, the USFWS works in close partnership with the appropriate
state or tribal agency to implement the project.

http://greatlakesrestoration.us/?p=1114

Contacts:
Mark Holey, (920)-866-1760
Katie Steiger-Meister, (612) 713-5317
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Pranas Pranckevicius, CISSP
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 West Jackson Blvd.  G-17J
Chicago, IL  60604-3590
pranckevicius.pranas at epa.gov
312 353-3437 Tel | 312 385-5446 Fax
www.epa.gov/greatlakes | greatlakesrestoration.us
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