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Max Baucus: “I heard what you are saying, but I think you heard the Senator from Florida, both Senators, very extensively explain how…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2000
I heard what you are saying, but I think you heard the Senator from Florida, both Senators, very extensively explain how it is the Corps project, the original Everglades project, which I think cost about $3 billion in today's dollars to build, that caused a lot of the pollution problems. Here we are coming up with a restoration of the Everglades which includes restoration of waters, municipal waters included, which otherwise would be degraded because of the original Corps project or because of the costs and pollution problems associated with that project.
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Max Baucus
Democratic · Montana

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of the original Corps project on Everglades pollution and restoration efforts.

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