$2.8m awarded to aid N.H. cleanups.A total of $2.8 million in grants have been awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help the cleanup of brownfields in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). . The grants for New Hampshire include $400,000 from the Recovery Act and $2.4 million from the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. brownfields general program funding. They will help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Applicants selected to receive Recovery Act funds are: * Rockingham Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle , $400,000, two community-wide assessment grants * Town of Jaffrey, $600,000, three cleanup grants for Elite Laundry Site * Lakes Region Planning Commission, $400,000, two community-wide assessment grants * New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, $1 million, community-wide coalition grant * Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission, $400,000, two community-wide assessment grants The grants will help to assess, cleanup and redevelop abandoned, contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. properties known as brownfields. |
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