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Fourth District Awarded
Over $2 Million in Brownfields Grants from EPA
Washington, D.C. - The Fourth Congressional
District will receive $2,224,000 in Brownfields grants from
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for cleanup, assessment,
job training and loan programs, Congressman Christopher Shays
(R-Bridgeport) announced today.
“The Brownfields Program is one of the smartest and
most important revitalization efforts our government has created.
The program helps put property and people back to work by
spurring economic development and generating property tax
revenue from previously idle sites,” Shays explained.
“The over $2.2 million the Fourth District will receive
will help us assess and clean up contaminated sites, and create
job training and loan programs. This is a competitive program
and I congratulate the communities that put together such
strong applications. We are grateful the EPA recognized the
needs in the Fourth District and supported our communities.”
The sites and amounts which the Fourth District will receive
are as follows:
Bridgeport
Job Training -- $198,500
Cleanup of the Pacelli Trucking Site -- $200,000
Revolving Loan Fund program to create a city-managed loan
program to give low- or no-interest loans for cleanup efforts
-- $1,000,000
Redding
Cleanup of Gilbert & Bennett By-product Management Site
-- $200,000
Greenwich
Cleanup of the Cos Cob Power Plant Site -- $200,000
Shelton
Cleanup of Shelton Farm and Public Market -- $200,000
Stamford
Cleanup of Stamford Equities Building -- $25,500
Cleanup of 114 Manhattan Street -- $200,000
Naugatuck Valley (18 towns, including Fourth
District’s Shelton and Oxford)
Assessment funds available for Valley communities -- $200,000
Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or underused industrial
or commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment
is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.
These sites, typically in the heart of urban areas, often
lie idle because no one wants to incur the large costs associated
with Superfund cleanups.
The Brownfields Program promotes redevelopment of America’s
estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated waste sites.
Since its inception in 1995, the program has awarded 709 assessment
grants totaling over $190 million, 189 revolving loan fund
grants worth more than $165 million, and $26.8 million for
150 cleanup grants.
For the EPA's fact sheets on each project, please visit http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/05grants/05grants_alpha.htm#connecticut.
Contact: Sarah Moore,
202/225-5541
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