Great Lakes Cleanup Part Of Infrastructure Package?

As part of the infrastructure package that was just approved on a bi-partisan basis by the Senate and is now moving on to the House, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative ("GLRI") could receive approximately $1 billion for the remediation of impacted site and waterways in the Great Lakes region.   

Since its inception in 2010, the GLRI has provided funding to 16 federal organizations to strategically target the biggest threats to the Great Lakes ecosystem and to accelerate progress toward achieving long term goals:

• Fish safe to eat;
• Water safe for recreation;
• Safe source of drinking water;
• All Areas of Concern delisted;
• Harmful/nuisance algal blooms eliminated;