EPA sets grants to restore ‘brownfields’ at blighted sites By: Associated Press May 12, 2021
8:38 am
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday more than $66 million in grants will go to 151 places throughout the U.S> to assess and clean up contaminated or abandoned “brownfields” industrial and commercial properties that contain a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. An estimated 450,000 brownfields, including abandoned industrial facilities, waste disposal sites and former gas stations, plague cities, towns and rural areas throughout the country.
“This is a significant opportunity for environmental justice communities and rural communities that for far too long have been living with blighted pieces of property. And now they can see on the horizon investment opportunities that will come to fruition,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said Tuesday in an interview.
EPA sets grants to restore brownfields at blighted sites
by Matthew Daly, The Associated Press
Posted May 11, 2021 3:42 pm EDT
Last Updated May 11, 2021 at 3:44 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced more than $66 million in grants to 151 communities nationwide to assess and clean up contaminated or abandoned “brownfields” industrial and commercial properties that contain a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. An estimated 450,000 brownfields, including abandoned industrial facilities, waste disposal sites and former gas stations, plague cities, towns and rural areas throughout the country.
“This is a significant opportunity for environmental justice communities and rural communities that for far too long have been living with blighted pieces of property. And now they can see on the horizon investment opportunities that will come to fruition,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said Tuesday in an interview.
Up until last year, it was used as a storage facility for a local furniture retailer.
The building used to welcome visitors who entered Brandon on 18th Street.(Riley Laychuk/CBC)
Alyssa Wowchuk, administrator of the Brandon General Museum and Archives, had a chance to go inside not long before demolition crews moved in. The structure of the building is all very open concept, she said. I want to say it probably looked a lot like what it did during the time of the International Harvester company.
Exposed brick was visible in many areas, some floors were wide open and a few artifacts had been left behind, she said.
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