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News Releases - 2002Illinois EPA Announces Brownfields Redevelopment Grant For Farmington
Springfield, Ill. -- Illinois EPA Director Renee Cipriano announced that the city of Farmington has been awarded a Brownfields Redevelopment Grant by the Agency. Farmington will receive $25,497 in grant funds to conduct additional investigation and provide for additional oversight work being conducted under the Illinois EPA's Site Remediation Program. The 1.5-acre site was formerly used as a gasoline service station and an auto dealership. Underground storage tanks remained on the property, but were removed in November 2001, through a federal brownfields grant obtained by the city. Petroleum contamination is frequently associated with older underground storage tanks. Once work is completed, and the Illinois EPA issues a No Further Remediation Letter, the site will be redeveloped for commercial use. "Brownfields grants help communities with the funding they need to evaluate the environmental impact of the past uses of property and enables them to form a plan to rehabilitate the site for redevelopment," said Director Cipriano. Governor George Ryan noted that 64 Illinois communities have now been awarded grants under the program, which began July 1, 1998. "Illinois communities have received over $5.9 million, to date, for environmental assessments of brownfields sites. This assistance is often the catalyst necessary to bring sites that have been community eyesores or potential hazards back to productive use." The grants are awarded to Illinois municipalities for environmental assessments of abandoned or underutilized properties in preparation for cleanup and redevelopment. |
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