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NTC V.P. GORE TODAY ANNOUNCED 71 NEW GRANTS TO HELP COMMUNITIES REDEVELOP BROWNFIELDS
Release Date: 07/15/98
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1998
Vice President Gore today at the White House Community Empowerment Conference announced 71 new grants totaling over $14 million to help communities redevelop Brownfields. Brownfields are abandoned, contaminated properties that are often found in distress areas. Attached is a White House press release. Descriptions of these Brownfields pilots can be accessed through the Internet at: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/pilot.htm or by calling Lauren Milone Mical, EPA’s Office of Media Relations, at 202-260-4358.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Vice President ______________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release Contact: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 (202) 456-7035
VICE PRESIDENT GORE AWARDS BROWNFIELDS GRANTS TO 71 COMMUNITIES, EXPANDS EFFORTS TO REVITALIZE DISTRESSED AREAS
Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore awarded 71 new grants, for over $14 million, today to help communities clean up and redevelop Brownfields -- abandoned, contaminated properties, often found in distressed areas -- and return them to thriving centers of prosperity.
"There is no greater example of the environment and the economy working hand in hand to benefit the American people than the Administration's efforts to clean up and revitalize Brownfields," said Vice President Gore, who announced the new round of Brownfields grants at the White House Community Empowerment Conference. "Across the nation, cities are coming back to life with new jobs, new opportunities, and new hope."
To date, the federal government has awarded 228 Brownfields grants, for over $42 million, to states, cities, towns, counties, and tribes. These grants have leveraged nearly $1 billion for redevelopment and created over 2,000 jobs.
Today's announcement builds on the Administration's efforts to breathe new life, new opportunity, and new hope into the nation's central cities and isolated rural areas. The Brownfields redevelopment efforts are an important part of the President's overall community empowerment agenda.
Since 1993, the Administration has taken significant steps to clean up and redevelop Brownfields and return them to productive use, such as removing legal barriers to redevelopment; creating a national model to determine the best way to revitalize communities; providing a targeted tax incentive to businesses that purchase and cleanup these sites; and providing over $42 million in seed money to 228 communities for revitalization.
The Vice President chairs the Community Empowerment Board, which oversees various initiatives to bring together distressed communities to develop plans for revitalization. The three-day, fourth annual White House Community Empowerment Conference brings together communities to discuss community empowerment strategies.
The Brownfields grants awarded today total about $200,000 for each community. The states, communities and tribes selected to receive the new grants include:
Mansfield, MA Brockton, MA Montachusett Regional Planning
Commission, MA State of Massachusetts State of New Hampshire State of Rhode Island Stamford, CT Colrain, MA Middletown, CT Paterson, NJ Hudson County, NJ Atlantic City, NJ Long Branch, NJ Morris County, NJ Middlesex County, NJ Ulster County, NY Puerto Rico Ports Authority, PR Utica, NY Hagerstown, MD Ford City, PA Shenandoah, VA Washington, DC Reading, PA Uniontown, AL Escambia County, FL East Point, GA Oktibbeha County, MS Burlington, NC Columbia, SC Columbia, MS Southeast Florida East Moline, IL Waukegan, IL Canton, IL Wayne County, MI
St. Joseph/Benton Harbor/Benton Charter Township, MI Ypsilanti, MI Saginaw, MI Flint, MI Cleveland, OH Youngstown/Campbell/Struthers, OH Columbus, OH Hamilton, OH Toledo, OH Springfield, OH Southern Ohio Port Authority, OH Glendale, WI Kenosha, WI Gretna, LA Bernalillo County, NM State of New Mexico Comanche Nation, OK Brownsville, TX Rio Grande Council of Governments, TX & NM Clinton, IA Coralville, IA Cedar Rapids, IA Hutchinson, KS Omaha, NE Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, ND Evanston, WY Lakewood, CO State of California Long Beach, CA Alameda County, CA West Hollywood, CA Montebello, CA Hoopa Valley Tribe, CA Ely Shoshone Tribe, NV Los Angeles, CA Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation
District, OR
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