[CPEO-BIF] EPA's new community grant program

["Robert Hersh" <b_hersh@verizon.net>]

>From Jennifer Bohman at EPA

EPA is launching a new grant program to help communities understand and
reduce the risk of exposure to toxic chemicals.  Through Community
Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE), EPA is offering communities
financial and technical assistance to reduce releases of toxic
pollutants and minimize exposure to them. Communities will be empowered
to create local collaborative partnerships to identify sources of toxic
exposure and set priorities for risk reduction. Communities also will
have access to tools from EPA's voluntary programs that focus on
reducing exposure to toxic pollutants, such as programs that reduce
emissions from diesel engines, clean abandoned industrial sites, improve
the indoor environment in schools, and use pollution prevention to
protect drinking water supplies. CARE will offer funding at two levels.
Under Level I, communities will receive approximately $75,000 to
establish collaborative partnerships for reducing toxic releases in
their environment.  Level II offers approximately $300,000 to
communities that already have a broad-based collaborative partnership
and are ready to implement risk reduction strategies.  Applications are
due May 20, 2005.  

For more information visit: http://www.epa.gov/air/grants/05-08.pdf

For more information on the US EPA's Brownfields Program visit:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

Bob Hersh
Program Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO)
44 Portland St., 7th Floor
Worcester, MA 01608

Tel:    508-756-8585
email:  bhersh@cpeo.org
url:      www.cpeo.org
 


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