EPA Awards $2 Million to Seven States for New Brownfield Grants in Ten Communities

Release date: May 16, 2003

In its ongoing efforts to promote economic revitalization and safeguard the environment and public health against such hazardous materials as asbestos and lead, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced the awarding of the first Brownfields Job Training grants under the new Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002.

EPA is awarding 10 communities in seven states $200,000 each to provide environmental job training at Brownfields sites. Whitman made the announcement during a visit to one of the award recipients, JFY Networks (formerly Jobs for Youth) in Boston, Massachusetts.

The $200,000 environmental job training grants will be received by 10 communities in the following seven states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Montana, and California.