From: U.S. EPA <usaepa@service.govdelivery.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:01 AM
Subject: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency News Releases: New England Region (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT, 10 tribes) Update : EPA Provides Additional $3+ Million for Brownfields Cleanups in New England
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| News Release Contacts: David Deegan, (617) 918-1017 EPA Provides Additional $3+ Million for Brownfields Cleanups in New England Boston – EPA has provided additional grants of $3.275 million in supplemental funding for communities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont to carry out cleanup and redevelopment projects at contaminated Brownfields properties. The projects will help communities create jobs while protecting people's health and the environment. The supplemental funds will support an array of cleanup and redevelopment projects in the following New England locations: Connecticut The funding is through EPA's Brownfields revolving loan fund, which specifically supplies funding for grant recipients to provide loans and sub-grants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. When these loans are repaid, the loan amount is then returned to the fund and subgranted or re-loaned to other borrowers, providing an ongoing source of capital within a community for additional cleanup of brownfield sites. The supplemental grants range in funding from about $200,000 to $500,000 with an average grant award of $350,000. "These additional EPA Brownfield grants are going to communities with proven track records in successfully cleaning up and redeveloping brownfield sites," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator for EPA's New England office. "EPA's Brownfields program has a long history of helping to boost local economies, creating skilled well-paying local jobs, all while protecting people's health and our communities." Nationally, there are an estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated sites in the United States. EPA's Brownfields program targets these sites to encourage redevelopment, and help to provide the opportunity for productive community use of contaminated properties. EPA's Brownfields investments overall have leveraged more than $21 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding from public and private sources and on average, $17.79 is leveraged for every EPA Brownfields grant dollar spent. The funds have enabled the support of 97,500 jobs in cleanup, construction and redevelopment. More information: EPA's Brownfields program: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/ Brownfields work in New England: http://www.epa.gov/region1/brownfields/index.html Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund grants: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/rlflst.htm # # # Learn More about the Latest EPA News & Events in New England (http://www.epa.gov/region1/newsevents/index.html) Follow EPA New England on Twitter (http://twitter.com/epanewengland) Connect with EPA New England on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EPARegion1)
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Jeremy Tobias Matthews
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