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I FOIA'ed >1M pages of docs for my project cleartap.com, a DB of water quality of the USA.

Most states would charge a small amount to gather the documents.

Michigan wanted $50K to for the FOIA request. I think because of the Flint lead crisis. They wanted me to go away.

I noticed that you do have data for Flint. Did you have to pay it, or is there some appeals process if you're quoted an unreasonable amount?

Great project by the way!

Ended up finding the majority of Michigan through scraping.