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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1974
EPA AWARDS OVER $2 3 MILLION IN GRANTS DURING NOVEMBER
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that
it had awarded 170 grants amounting to $23,798,000 during the
month of November.
The number of awards was 22 percent higher than the figure
for October, and the dollar amount was 12 percent above the com-
parable figure for the preceding month.
The November awards raised the number of grants made during
the first five months of the current fiscal year to 726 and the
amount obligated to $208,022,000.
Fifty-eight percent of the November grants went to State
and local jurisdictions. The 98 State and local awards amounted
to $20,728,000. Sixty-nine of these, totaling $9,229,000, were
for the construction or improvement of sewage treatment facili-
ties. The other awards to State and local areas — 29 amounting
to $11,499,000 — were distributed as follows: 17 State and
interstate water pollution control projects totaling $7,405,000;
nine air pollution grants, $2,084,000; and three consolidated
program grants (a combination of at least two types of pollution
control programs), $2,010,000.
Fifty-seven research and demonstration grants totaling
$2,614,000 were obligated in November. Of these, 46 were re-
search awards that came to $1,874,000, and 11 were demonstration
grants totaling $740,000.	,
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The research grants included one which increased by
$125,039 the amount of the original award to the University of
California for the support of an air research project entitled
"Mechanisms of Photochemical Reactions in Urban Air." This
project is designed to provide data to further the development
of photochemical models.
The largest demonstration award in November was a new
grant of $250,000 to the City of Atlanta (Ga.) Department of
Public Works for a solid waste project which will evaluate the
social and economic factors in the transportation of baled
municipal solid waste by rail car to mined-out areas for dis-
posal. The City of Atlanta has awarded a contract to the
Southern Railway for the railhaul disposal. It is estimated
that the total cost of the project for'the period January 1974
through June 1976 will come to $1,951,699.
The November awards also included 15 manpower development
and training grants that came to $456,000. The largest number of
these -- seven amounting to $294,000 — were for air pollution
manpower training. Five other grants ($33,000) were for water
pollution control training, and three ($129,000) for solid waste
training.
Of the nine November awards to State and local jurisdictions
for their air pollution control programs, the largest one —
$900,000 — went to the City of Philadelphia (Pa.) Department
of Public Health for the continuation of work on the air pollu-
tion control program in that city.
Only one of the November grants for construction or improv-
ing sewage treatment facilities was for $1 million or more.
Ann Arundel County, Maryland, was granted $1,780,000 as an in-
crease in the original award it received for the construction
of a secondary wastewater treatment plant. This increase raises
the current level of funding for this project to $6,029,000.
The first grant to Saipan, Mariana Islands, for the con-
struction of a wastewater treatment plant was approved in
November. The award will provide funds for the construction
of its Ebeye wastewater treatment, collection, and disposal
system. The $297,675 which was awarded will help to cover the
cost of the first phase (preparing preliminary studies and
engineering) of the project. The total estimated cost for this
phase is $396,900.
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