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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1976
EPA AWARDS $176.4 MILLION DURING APRIL
The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that
618 grants totaling $17 6,383,000 were awarded during the month
of April.
The April awards raised to 5,136 the number of grants made
during the first ten months of the current fiscal year.and the
total dollars awarded to $2 ,663 , 5 54 ,0;00 . This represents an
increase of 1,445 awards (39 percent) and $856,466,000 award
dollars (47 percent) over fiscal year 1975 figures for the same
period.
Dollars awarded.in April to State and local jurisdictions
accounted for $171,168,000 and 515 of 618 grants. Of these,
453 grants totaling $166,609,000 were for the construction or
improvement of sewage treatment facilities.
Other awards to State and local areas included 2 8 water
supply grants for $1,797,000; ten air pollution control awards
for $952,000; eight water pollution control State and inter-
state program grants for $977,000; seven State and local man-
power development awards for $79,000; three consolidated awards
for $330,000; three pesticides accident and safety manpower
development grants for $284,000; one Great Lakes pollution
control award for $134,000; one demonstration grant for $4,000;
one solid waste planning grant for $3,000.
Fifty-eight research grants totaling $3,482,000 were
awarded in April. The largest single award was for $299,995
(more)
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to the University of Missouri to develop useful methods of
predicting and measuring the extent of soil arthropods (cut-
worms and wireworms for example) that cause significant damage
to corn production and to some vegetable crops; also to develop
a pest management system that will aid crop production but
still protect the environment.
The second largest grant was for $279,000 to Stanford
University to determine the feasibility of a wastewater treat-
ment plant system which would inject treated water into a local
groundwater aquifer, reclaiming the water for potable uses.
Fourteen!demonstration grants totaling $1,395,000 were
made during April. The largest of these was an award of
$800,000 to Ingham County Board of Commissioners, Mason, Michigan
to restore Lake Lansing to acceptable levels of water quality
and remove bottom materials.
The April awards also included 31 manpower development
and training awards totaling $338,000. Twenty-four were for
water pollution control fellowships for $80,000, six for water
pollution control training grants totaling $256,000 and one
air pollution fellowship for $2,000.
The 4,221 wastewater treatment construction grants for
$2,558,080,000 awarded during the first ten months of fiscal
year 1976 totalled more construction awards for more award
dollars than have been awarded in the first ten months of any
fiscal year since the; inception of EPA.
Among April grants for constructing or improving sewage
treatment facilities, 26 were either new or increase awards
of $1 million or more.
The largest single construction grant made in April was
for $24,276,220 to Arlington County, Virginia for construction
of a six million gallon a day secondary expansion plant.
Four awards were for $9 million or more: $14,400,000
to Fairfax County, Virginia to build various facilities at
the Lower Potomac Pollution Control Center; $12,632,325 to
Houston, Texas to construct sewer and pumping stations;
$9,975,000 to San Francisco, California for preparation of
plans and specifications for a wastewater treatment plant;
$9,000,000 also to San Francisco for construction of a pump
station and sewers.
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