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 US.MIAIL A 1SU-Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1976 EPA GRANT AWARDS TOTAL $435.2 MILLION IN MAY The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it had awarded 698 grants totaling $435,154,000 during the month of May. The May awards brings to 5,834 the number of grants made during the first eleven months of the current fiscal year and the total dollars awarded to $3,098,708,000. This represents an increase of 1,546 awards (36.1 percent) and $599,492,000 award dollars (24.0 percent) over fiscal year 1975 figures for the same period. Awards to State and local jurisdictions accounted for $429,530,000 May award dollars and 569 of the 698 grants. Of these, 439 grants totaling $389,308,000 were for construction or improvement of sewage treatment facilities. Other State and local awards included: 44 water pollu- tion control areawide treatment management planning grants for $30,044,000; 26 drinking water supply awards—$3,479,000; 19 air pollution control grants--$2,355,000; 13 State and local manpower development awards--$318 ,000 ; eleven water pol- lution control State and interstate program grants--$816,000; nine consolidated grants—$2,984,000; seven for the pesticides accident and safety manpower development program—$171,000; one solid waste planning grant--$55,000. 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. 3-72) Niles (202) 755-0344 (more) R-179 ------- -2- In the EPA research program, 66 grants totaling $4,325,000 were awarded in May. Of these, 26 were for water pollution control. The largest single grant was for $316,779 to the Colorado School of Mines Research Institute, Golden, Colorado to develop a method of predicting potential ground- water degradation in strip coal mining on the basis of over- lying soil composition. The second largest award was made to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio for $168,795 to investigate the transport of hazardous materials through the nearshore and nearbottom aquatic and sedimentary environment in large lakes. Three demonstration grants totaling $226,000 were made during May. The largest was for $163,000 awarded to San Jose, California to study the. effectiveness of various street clean- ing programs in non-point pollution abatement. EPA's May awards also included 60- manpower development and training awards totaling $1,073,000. Most of these were fellowships for the next school year. The 4,660 wastewater treatment construction grants for $2,947,388,000 awarded during the first eleven months of fiscal year 1976 totaled more construction awards for more award dollars than have been awarded in the first eleven months of any fiscal year since the start of EPA. Among the May grants for constructing or improving sewage treatment facilities, 56 were either new or increase awards of $1 million or more. The single largest construction grant made in May was for $57,780,150 to the Ocean County Sewage Authority, Toms River, New Jersey for construction of a regional sewage system. Four awards exceeded $17 million: the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission in St. Paul, Minesota, $28,641,450 for construction of a treatment works plant; the City of Dallas Texas, $27,176,775 for enlargement of a waste treatment plant; Charles River Pollution Control District, Medway, Massachusetts, $18,843,652 to construct a 4.5 million-gallons-a-day advanced waste treatment plant and interceptor sewers; Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, Duluth, Minnesota, $17,294,550 for building a treatment works plant. # Repository Materia! r-i?9 permanent Collection US EPA Headquarters and Chemical Libraries EPA Wast Blrio Room 3340 Malicode 3404T 1301 Constitution Ave NW Washington DC 20004 202-566-0556 ------- |