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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1976
EPA AWARDS $293 MILLION IN GRANTS DURING MARCH
The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that
it had awarded 599 grants totaling $292,956,000 during the
month, of March.
The March awards raised the number of grants made during
the first nine months of the current fiscal year to 4,519 and
the total dollars awarded to $2,488,26 3,000. This represents
an increase of 1,354 awards (43 percent) and $819,910,000
award dollars (49 percent) over fiscal year 19 75 figures for
the same period...
Dollars awarded to State and local areas accounted for
$288,9 22,000 of the March award dollars and 529 of the total
number grants made. Of "these, 466 grants totaling $282,479,-
000 were for the construction or improvement of sewage treat-
ment facilities.
Other awards to State and local areas included 24 for
the Public Water System Supervision Program and the Safe
Drinking Water Development Program totaling $584,000; 17 for
air pollution control for $2,46 7,000; five for the pesticides
accident and safety program for $337,000; five for State and
local research grants totaling $155,000; five for State and
local manpower development awards for $67,000; three water
pollution control State and interstate programs for $281,000;
two consolidated grants for $1,722; a Great Lakes pollution
grant for $645,000 and a solid waste planning grant for
$85,000.
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Forty-nine research grants totaling $2,965,000 were
awarded in March. The larges^t single award made was to the
University of California at Berkeley for $331,344 to develop
and demonstrate a low-cost coolant blowdown renovation recycle
system for existing power plants, and provide data for a signi-
ficant further cost reduction wjien applied in the design of
future power plants, wheirein a part of the conventional con-
denser capacity is replaced by a vertical tube evaporator-
condenser.
The second largest award made was a grant of $274,326
to the University of Cincinnati, Ohio for an epidemiological-
serological study of infection rates in sewer maintenance
workers as compared to a control group consisting of road
maintenance workers.
Six demonstration grants totaling $955,000 were made
during March. The largest of these was an award of $700,000
to San Diego County, California to demonstrate that the pro-
posed integrated recovery process offers a superior technical,
economic, and ecological method for disposing of 200 tons
per day of municipal solid waste from the cities of Escondido
and San Marcos, California.
The March awards also included 15 manpower development
and training awards for $214,000. Ten of these were for'
water pollution control training.
Among the March grants for constructing or improving
sewage treatment facilities, 38 were either new or increase
awards of $1 million or more.
The single largest construction grant made in March was
an award of $24,305,550 to the City of Sioux City, Iowa for
expansion of the existing plant.
Of awards exceeding $15 million, the largest were:
$20,331,750 to the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation
District for the construction of plant, interceptor and out-
fall; $20,004,732 to the Trinity River Authority, Arlington,
Texas for construction of interceptor extensions and enlarge-
ment to lift stations and plant; $17,472,225 to Medina County,
Ohio for construction of a treatment works.
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