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Arctic Ocean clean-up to cost $40 million - ecology minister

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Franz Josef Land and the Northern Sea route clean-up program, which is to start in 2011, will require 1.2 billion rubles ($40 million), the Russian minister of natural resources and ecology said on Wednesday.

Franz Josef Land and the Northern Sea route clean-up program, which is to start in 2011, will require 1.2 billion rubles ($40 million), the Russian minister of natural resources and ecology said on Wednesday.

"The cost of the project is estimated at 1.2 billion rubles, front-end engineering demands 110 million [rubles]," Yuri Trutnev said.

There are 194 sites that demand clean-up, he said. "From the beginning of 2011 we will be ready to start," Trutnev said, adding that a feasibility study is currently underway.

MOSCOW, June 16 (RIA Novosti)

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