EPA Announces Pilot Grants to Clean Up Petroleum Contamination From Underground Storage Tanks in 8 Cities in the Southeast.Business Editors 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 announced today 8 pilots totaling $800,000 in grants to 6 states in the Southeast to clean up properties 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. from leaking leak v. leaked, leak·ing, leaks v.intr. 1. To permit the escape, entry, or passage of something through a breach or flaw: underground storage tanks An Underground Storage Tank (UST), in United States environmental law, is a tank and any underground piping connected to the tank that has at least 10 percent of its combined volume underground. (USTs). The pilot projects, called USTfields, involve abandoned or underused industrial and commercial properties with perceived or actual contamination from petroleum that has leaked from underground storage tanks. Of the estimated 450,000 Brownfields sites in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , about half of these properties are thought to be impacted by underground storage tanks or by some type of petroleum contamination. The grants are being awarded to states and tribes to demonstrate what can be accomplished in the assessment and cleanup - and ultimate reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. - of petroleum-impacted sites when federal, state, tribal, local and private entities work together. Each of the pilots will receive up to $100,000 for assessing and cleaning up petroleum contamination from underground storage tanks. All of these pilots are intended to provide states, tribes, municipalities and communities with useful information and strategies to promote a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup The process of removing solid, liquid, and hazardous wastes, except for unexploded ordnance, resulting from the joint operation of US forces to a condition that approaches the one existing prior to operation as determined by the environmental baseline survey, if one was conducted. and redevelopment of contaminated properties. These grants spur partnerships among state and local governments, community groups, investors and developers to get sites cleaned up and ready for community use instead of remaining a liability to the community and a continuing threat to public health and the environment.
The 8 USTfields pilots and the amount of their grants are:
Alabama Florida
Selma - $100,000 Clearwater - $100,000
Escambia County - $100,000
St. Petersburg - $100,000
Mississippi North Carolina
Jackson - $100,000 Concord - $100,000
South Carolina Tennessee
Greenville - $100,000 City of Kingsport - $100,000
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