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Michigan drinking‑water officials report progress on inspections and lead‑line inventory, warn of funding gap
Summary
EGLE officials told a House appropriations subcommittee the drinking water division has reduced permit backlogs and completed record sanitary surveys, but warned that expiring federal funds and projects routed directly to EPA threaten staffing and continued progress on lead service‑line replacement and monitoring programs.
Eric Oswald, director of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division, told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Environment, Great Lakes and Energy that the division has nearly full staffing and has erased a backlog of permits while expanding inspections and contaminant monitoring.
Oswald said the division is “97% staffed,” credited recent FTE increases for allowing the agency to eliminate its permit backlog and said his team completed 483 sanitary surveys this year — the most in nine years. He also described Michigan’s early work on PFAS testing and other proactive contaminant monitoring, and said the division is exploring streamlining routine permitting for faster repair…
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