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Jared Huffman: “The settlement agreement would relieve the Federal Government of an obligation under a 56-year-old law to build an…”

On the recordMay 23, 2016
The settlement agreement would relieve the Federal Government of an obligation under a 56-year-old law to build an interceptor drain.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman critiques the settlement for lacking environmental and budgetary safeguards.

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