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Bridgeport Receives $400,000
in Brownfields Grants from EPA
Washington, D.C. –Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT)
today joined Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials
and Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi to announce Bridgeport will
receive $400,000 in Brownfields grants from the EPA to assess
and clean up the former Producto Site. Once cleaned up, the
site will house the Bridgeport Department of Public Facilities.
“The Brownfields program has helped Bridgeport turn
dirty sites in the city into safe, functioning, tax-generating
property,” Shays said. “The EPA’s continued
support is great news for Bridgeport and will help us meet
the re-development goals the city has set. As a resident of
Bridgeport, I’m particularly grateful for this support.”
Shays helped establish the Brownfields program in 1995, which
provides seed money for communities to leverage millions of
state and private dollars to clean up dirty land and make
it useful property.
The EPA is announcing $1 million in grants to the Fourth
District today including:
Bridgeport
$200,000 for assessment
$200,000 for clean-up of former Producto Site, to house the
future Public Facilities Department
Norwalk
$200,000 for assessment and inventory of contaminated properties
associated with the South Norwalk Brownfields Initiative
$200,000 for assessment and inventory of contaminated petroleum
properties throughout Norwalk
Shelton
$200,000 for clean-up of the Rolfite manufacturing site
Fourth Congressional District total: $1,000,000
Statewide total: $2,000,000
Prior to these grants, the Environmental Protection Agency
awarded a total of $6.425 million in Brownfields grants to
the Fourth District.
Shays recently hosted the House Government Reform Subcommittee
on Federalism and the Census, for a field hearing on the Brownfields
program. For more information on the hearing, visit http://www.house.gov/shays/news/2006/march/marbrownfields.htm.
Contact: Sarah Moore, 202/225-5541
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