TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A group of U.S. senators is
asking the Army Corps of Engineers to pump more money into maintaining
harbors in the Great Lakes region, which has a backlog of projects.
A
letter sent Friday and signed by 13 members of the Senate Great Lakes
Task Force says the region should receive at least $30 million from a
spending bill approved last month by Congress.
Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Kirk of Illinois are co-chairmen of the task force.
They
say the Great Lakes are a vital shipping route for many raw materials,
but their navigational infrastructure needs work such as dredging
harbors and channels, maintaining piers and jetties and repairing lock
systems.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A group of U.S. senators is
asking the Army Corps of Engineers to pump more money into maintaining
harbors in the Great Lakes region, which has a backlog of projects.
A
letter sent Friday and signed by 13 members of the Senate Great Lakes
Task Force says the region should receive at least $30 million from a
spending bill approved last month by Congress.
Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Kirk of Illinois are co-chairmen of the task force.
They
say the Great Lakes are a vital shipping route for many raw materials,
but their navigational infrastructure needs work such as dredging
harbors and channels, maintaining piers and jetties and repairing lock
systems.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.