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Company works on Mich. oil pipeline restart plan

By AP

MARSHALL, MI –

The company that owns a pipeline that spilled oil into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan is revising its proposal to restart the service.

Enbridge Inc. is working to file a revised pipeline startup plan with federal regulators by Friday, according to a statement on a company website. It isn't known when the pipeline service running from Griffith, Ind. to Sarnia, Ontario might restart.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration rejected Enbridge's initial restart proposal. Regulators want more safeguards and investigation of pipeline anomalies included in the plan.

The pipeline leaked an estimated 820,000 to more than 1 million gallons in a spill the company reported July 26 near Marshall.

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