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Associated Press - October 29, 2009 8:34 AM ET
RICHTON, Miss. (AP) - Congress has provided $25 million for engineering and other preparations for storing some the nation's petroleum reserves in the Richton Salt Domes.
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., says the money was included in a funding bill signed Wednesday by President Obama.
The Richton plan would use fresh water to flush out a large underground dome formation in Perry County so it can be used to store petroleum.
Plans have included using water from the Pascagoula River to flush out the dome, while others have said water from the Gulf of Mexico or the Pearl or Mississippi rivers should be considered.
The plan might take millions of gallons a day from the Pascagoula River for years and pipe the brine to the Gulf under the Department of Energy's plan.
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