The federal Environmental Protection Agency has awarded “Brownfields” grants to three North Dakota projects. "We provide mostly grants and technical assistance to communities, to conduct environmental assessments and environmental cleanups, so the properties can be reused and put into productive use," said EPA Brownfields project manager Ted Lanzano, from Denver. One of the grants awarded was $500,000 to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, for the tribe to remove the buildings of the old San Haven Hospital, a former tuberculosis sanatorium near Dunseith. It closed in 1987. "It's a real hazard," Lanzano said. "There's quite a bit of asbestos contamination in the building right now. And this grant will be used to complete all the abatements, so the building can be demolished."