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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 19 76
EPA AWARDS $229.6 MILLION IN GRANTS DURING FEBRUARY
The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that
it had awarded 713 grants totaling $229,648,000 during the
month of February.
The 713 February awards raised the number of grants made
during the first eight months of the current fiscal year to
3,920 and the total dollars awarded to $2,195,325,000. This
represents an increase of 253 awards (55 percent) and $83,145,000
award dollars (57 percent) over fiscal year 1975 figures for
the same period.
Dollars awarded to State and local jurisdictions accounted
for $227,516,000 of the $229,648,000 February award dollars and
670 of 713 grants made. Of these, 643 grants totaling $224,902,-
000 were for the construction or improvement of sewage treat-
ment facilities.
Other awards to State and local areas included 15 air
pollution control grants for $2,293,000, three State and local
manpower development awards for $14,000, three solid waste
planning grants for $100,000, two demonstration grants for
$18,000, a consolidated grant for $91,000 and one water pollu-
tion control State and interstate program for $17,000.
Within the Research Program, 32 grants totalling $1,544,-
000 were awarded in February. Of these, 15 were for water
pollution control. The largest single award was a grant of
$239,000 made to the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
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to use bench and pilot-scale studies of powdered activated
carbon and ozone as a basis for determining ;their efficiency
in removing specific trace organic constituents from drinking
water.
The second largest award was made to Washington University,
in St. Louis, Missouri for $149,986 to improve the statistical
reliability of the Salmonella mutagenesis test; analyze
mechanisms in the microsomol activation system' used in the
Salmonella test; develop a technique for determining'mutagenic
metabolites;, and apply analytical capabilities to environmental
samples and human urine.
Five demonstration grants totaling $484,000 were made
during February. The largest of these was a grant of $141,500
to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
to develop a comprehensive management plan designed to control
waterborne pollution affecting the 29.5-acre Delaware Park
Lake and North Bay area in Erie County, New York.
The second largest demonstration grant was $140,000 to
Champion International in Hamilton, Ohio to utilize recent'
advances in membrane materials and hardware in a 10,000
gallons per day pilot plant to remove color from darker and
caustic extraction process streams.
The February awards also included eight manpower develop-
ment and training awards totaling $185,000. Four of these
were for water pollution control training totaling $160,000,
three for water pollution control fellowships and one for an
air pollution fellowship.
The 3,302 wastewater treatment construction grants for
$2,108,992 awarded during the first eight months of fiscal
year 1976 totaled more construction awards for more award
dollars than have been awarded in the first eight months of
any fiscal year since the initiation of EPA.
Among the February grants for construction or improving
sewage treatment facilities, 40 were either new or increase
awards of $1 million or more.
The single largest construction grant made in February
was an award of $15,268,275 to the City of New London,
Connecticut for construction of a plant, force and pressure
sewer, and an outfall sewer.
There were three awards exceeding $10 million: to the
Allentown Authority in Pennsylvania, $13,179,750 for construc-
tion of additions to their existing plant; to the New York
State Environmental Facilities Corporation, Albany, New York,
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$11,941,570 for construction of pumping stations, force mains,
and gravity sewer lines; to the Alexandria Lake Area Sanitary
District, Alexandria, Minnesota, $10,756,000 for construction
of a treatment works plant.
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