Superfund and Brownfields News ADVISORY (Region 2): EPA ARRA and Brownfields Grants Strengthen Camden Communities

 

EPA ARRA and Brownfields Grants Strengthen Camden Communities

 

Contact: Beth Totman office: (212) 637-3662, cell: (646) 369-0064; totman.elizabeth@epa.gov

 

(New York, N.Y. – May 10, 2010) With the help of $1 million in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brownfields grants, including funding through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), the City of Camden, NJ is conducting extensive assessment of about ten abandoned sites in low income communities and will clean up 3 sites where assessments have already revealed contamination.  Tuesday, Craig E. Hooks, EPA’s Assistant Administrator for the Office of Administration and Resources Management and the Agency’s top official for overseeing Recovery Act funds, will be joined by Camden Mayor Dana Redd and Congressman Robert E. Andrews at one such site.  The former Borden Chemical facility, located at 1625 Federal Street, will be assessed later this year with an eye toward cleaning it up and putting it back to use. 

 

WHO:             Craig Hooks, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Administration and Resources

      Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

            Dana Redd, Mayor of City of Camden, New Jersey

 

             Congressman Robert E. Andrews, 1^st District

WHAT:          

                        Formal remarks, photo-ops, one-on-ones

 

WHERE:         Borden Chemical Site

1625 Federal Street

                        Camden, New Jersey  08105

                                     

WHEN:           Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 11:00 am

 

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