A one-point-four-trillion dollar spending bill which just cleared the U-S House of Representatives includes 320-million for cleaning up the Great Lakes.
The legislation goes to the U-S Senate next. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative would deal with long-term environmental problems like pollution in harbors and river mouths, invasive species, lost wildlife habitat and the runoff that causes algae blooms.
The initiative was started in 2010 and has received about 300-million dollars in federal funding for each of the last nine years.
