GLIN==> U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Approved Grants for Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership Projects

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Approved Grants for Great Lakes
Basin Fish Habitat Partnership Projects

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Great Lakes Basin
Fish Habitat Partnership are pleased to announce the approval of over $1
million in grants aimed at supporting on-the-ground fish habitat work in
the Great Lakes under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI).

“We are pleased to support these projects to benefit aquatic habitat
under the Partnership, and recognize the GLRI as a tremendous
opportunity to implement on the ground restoration in the basin,” said
Mike Weimer, Assistant Regional Director of Fisheries for the Midwest
Region of USFWS

The grants were awarded under the Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat
Partnership, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a
Department of the Interior agency.  The grants were funded by the
President’s 2010 Budget which provided $475 million for the
Environmental Protection Agency –led, interagency Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative.  For more information on U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service activities related specifically to the Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative, please visit www.fws.gov/GLRI .
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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