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Work group forms around draft bill on large water withdrawals; council members raise questions about scope and consequences
Summary
A legislative work group discussing a draft concept to require new large consumptive users to draw from Great Lakes sources prompted council members to raise legal, economic and siting concerns and to ask that EGLE and the council provide technical briefings to legislators.
Council members reported they are participating in a legislative work group convened by a state senator to discuss draft concepts aimed at large consumptive water withdrawals. The draft concept discussed in the work group would require new consumptive users above a specified daily threshold (discussed in the work group as 2,000,000 gallons) to obtain water from Great Lakes sources or a municipal system connected to the Great Lakes, rather than from interior groundwater, and it would include provisions affecting who pays infrastructure upgrade costs for…
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