EPA Media Alert (HQ): WEDNESDAY: EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Visits Ohio to Announce Recovery Act Grants for Auto Communities

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 1, 2009

WEDNESDAY: EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Visits Ohio to Announce Recovery Act Grants for Auto Communities

Administrator joins Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio public officials to announce clean diesel recovery act grants for projects in Columbus, Cincinnati

WASHINGTON – EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will hold joint news conferences with Ohio public officials in Columbus and Cincinnati on Wednesday, June 3 to announce grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for Clean Diesel programs in auto communities across Ohio.

Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher will join Administrator Jackson for a Statehouse press conference to discuss clean diesel grants for retrofitted construction and transit equipment. The administrator will hold a press conference at Monfort Heights Elementary School in Cincinnati to discuss grants for clean diesel school buses. She will be joined in Cincinnati by David Pepper, president of the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners, and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Chris Korleski.

President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009 and has directed that the recovery act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can see how every dollar is being invested at recovery.gov. 


WHO:        EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
                 Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher
                 Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Chris Korleski
                 Hamilton County Board of Commissioners President David Pepper

WHAT:      Press conferences in Cincinnati and Columbus to announce American Recovery and
                 Reinvestment Act Clean Diesel grants

WHEN:      Wednesday, June 3
                 Columbus, Ohio – 10:15 a.m.
                 Cincinnati, Ohio – 2:15 p.m.

WHERE:     Columbus, Ohio 
                 Ohio Statehouse
                 Veterans Plaza

                 Cincinnati, OH 
                 Monfort Heights Elementary
                 3711 West Fork Road
                 Cincinnati, OH 45247


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