03/28/2017
https://www.congress.gov...
"In 1981 Lake Huron's Thunder Bay became Michigan's first state Underwater Preserve dedicated to our state's maritime stories and the shipwrecks that tell those stories."
"There has been a steady increase in our area of new businesses. Even where I live, 40 miles north of Alpena in the expanded area, empty storefront buildings are being occupied with new businesses, and..."
"Sanctuaries are very dear and near to my heart as well as to Michigan's economy."
"The Sanctuaries program is not a top down but a bottom up program which is designed by the collective concerns that the people of the affected area feel are worth preserving for the common good."