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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1976
EPA GRANT AWARDS TOTAL $1.4 BILLION IN JUNE
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that
the Agency awarded 1,245 grants amounting to $1,423,957,000
during the month of June.
The June awards brings to 7,084 the number of grants made
during the first 12 months of the current fiscal year, and
the total dollars awarded to $4,523,530,000. Fiscal Year 1976
will be extended this year to the end of September.
An increase of 1,667 awards or 31 percent is noted in
the number of awards made this year over Fiscal Year 1975.
Award dollars were up $504,086,000 or 13 percent over the pre-
vious 12 months.
Awards to State and local jurisdictions accounted for
$1,414,887,000 June award dollars, and 1,005 of the month's
1,245 grants. Of these, 858 grants totalling $1,383,912,000
were for constructing or improving sewage treatment facilities.
Other State and local awards included: 51 air pollution
control awards—$4,176,000; 33 water pollution control area-
wide waste treatment management planning grants2—$20,753,000;
20 water pollution control State and interstate program grants—
$3,212,000; 15 State and local manpower development awards —
$230,000; eight consolidated grants for $1,556,000; six pesti-
cides accident safety manpower development program—$255,000;
five water supply grants—$39,000; four demonstration grants—
$167 ,000; three solid waste planning grants—$6 4,000;-one -
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Great Lakes pollution control grant—$469,000; and one research
grant—$54,000.
In the EPA research program, 61 grants totaling $5,438,000
were awarded in June. Of these 26 were comprehensive grants
and 22 were for water pollution control. The largest single
grant was for $502,314 to the University of Cincinnati, Ohio
to study the health risks of human exposure to wastewater.
The second largest award was made to the University of
Florida, Gainesville to conduct a symposium for scientists
who lack training on the public health problems posed by viral
pathogens associated with recycling effluent and digested
sludge and solid waste in agricultural plant soil system.
Thirteen demonstration grants totaling $1,969,000 were
made during June. The largest was $1,2 86,821 given to the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to demonstrate on a com-
mercial scale the secure land disposal of potentially hazardous
industrial wastes.
EPA's June awards also included 166 manpower development
and training awards for $1,663,000. Most of these were fellow-
ships for the next school year.
The 5,517 wastewater treatment construction grants for
$4,331,266,000 awarded during the first twelve months of
fiscal year 1976 totaled more construction awards for more
award dollars than have been awarded in the twelve months of
any fiscal year since EPA began.
Among the June grants for constructing or improving sew-
age treatment facilities, 149 were either new or increase
awards of $1 million or more. The single largest construction
grant made in June was for $141,547,966 to the Pasaaic Valley
Sewerage Commissioners, Newark, New Jersey for a secondary
wastewater treatment facility.
Four awards exceeded $60 million: the Metropolitan
Sanitary District of Greater Chicago received three, one
for $74,964,450, another for $64,642,125 and the third for
$60,095,775 for the building and erection of treatment works.
The City of San Francisco, California, was awarded $64,908,000
for consolidation of outfalls.
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