UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460 OFFICIAL BUSINESS PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE $300 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER POSTAGE AND FEES PAID U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA-335 1 U.S.MA1L A S2ZEnvironmental Nbws Niles (202) 755-0344 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 (more) Return this sheet if you do NOT wish to receive this material ~. or if change of address is needed ~ (indicate change, including zip code) EPA FORM 1510-1 {REV. 8-72! R-138 ------- -2- 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, R-138 (more) ------- -3- $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. # # # R-138 ------- |