With the remaining cleanup funds, the city decided to expand the existing 9-hole golf course into an 18-hole course.

Last year, 46 sites that requested cleanup funds did not receive full financing, resulting in a 45 percent shortfall.

The law, which takes effect immediately, will put the revenue from the crude oil tax into a $100 million cleanup fund.

It would replace four much smaller cleanup funds.

But declining production has meant fewer dollars coming into the cleanup fund.

It has rejected calls by environmentalists to set up a $50 million cleanup fund.

To date, only 1 percent of the $2 billion in cleanup funds promised under Nafta have been spent.

Norwood was eventually able to utilize federal and state cleanup funds to eliminate those hazards.

Seventy percent of the royalty money would have gone to a cleanup fund for past abandoned mining operations, and 30% to affected communities.

He imposed a $13.2 million fine, but reduced it by $5 million after Allied set up an $8 million cleanup fund.