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Committee approves sending 30-year lease amendment with Detroit Salt Company to formal review
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The standing committee voted to send a 30-year lease amendment with Detroit Salt Company to formal review after staff outlined revenue projections (about $8.9 million over 30 years) and company representatives described underground room-and-pillar mining and MSHA oversight; council asked city engineers to confirm subsidence monitoring procedures.
The Detroit City Council standing committee on March 19 voted to send to formal a proposed 30-year lease amendment with the Detroit Salt Company that would extend and expand the company’s rights to mine salt beneath city-owned property.
Administration staff said the lease, amended previously in 2006, would permit access to additional underground salt and expand mining potential; the city could receive lease and mineral revenue the administration estimated at roughly $8.9 million over 30 years. John Truong of the Housing Revitalization…
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