Contact: EDA Public Affairs Department, (202) 482-4085 January 7, 2021 WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.7 million grant to the Buffalo Erie County Industrial Land Development Corporation, Buffalo, New York, to install new water and sewer systems that will spur new business growth and economic development at the Former Bethlehem Steel Plant Site in Lackawanna. This EDA grant, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs ActOpportunity Zone , will be matched with $670,000 in local funds and is expected to help create 100 jobs and generate $18 million in private investment.