US EPA To Award Superfund Redevelopment Grants

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SAN FRANCISCO -- In an effort to return toxic waste sites to productive

use, the U.S. EPA is awarding 40 pilot projects nationally up to $100,000 each

in financial assistance and services under a new program being offered by the

Superfund Redevelopment Initiative.

 

Proposals must be submitted to the agency by March 10. Assistance could

include services such as a funded position for a federal agency expert,

facilitation services and other technical assistance.

 

To be eligible, the applicant must be a state, a political subdivision, or

a federally recognized tribe, and have a site within its jurisdiction that is

proposed or final on the National Priorities List of federal Superfund sites,

and where construction of the remedy is not yet complete. Local governments

that have sites within their jurisdictions that are not on the National

Priorities List of Superfund sites -- but at which significant cleanup work by

the EPA is planned -- may also be eligible if an EPA cleanup decision is

pending.

 

Selections for the pilots are expected to be announced in May. Copies of

the notice can be obtained electronically through EPA's web page at

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/recycle/proposal.htm or by calling the

Superfund Redevelopment Hotline at 888-526-4321.