Oklahoma spent more than half a million dollars to one company to clean up homeless camps during the state-led Operation SAFE, 2 News learned this based on records obtained by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

What really drove up the cost: the state used a company based out of Oklahoma City to travel to Tulsa every day.

In mileage and other travel charges alone: $93,286.14.

The total cost of the bill for a two-week cleanup: $545,680.

ODOT tells 2 News it has a number of environmental cleanup contractors that are closer in location, but because of the rapid response, they needed one with immediate availability.

We asked what was behind the urgency, but did not receive an explanation.

The cleanup staff clocked long hours, too. Boomer Environmental billed the state for 17 hour

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