The Greater North Penn Area Transportation Management Association is one of 73 communities across the country to receive an Environmental Justice Hazardous Substance Research Small Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week.

North Penn plans to train elementary through high school students and employ them in collecting air sampling data along a regional transportation corridor that spans a broad range of suburban communities. The study will identify air quality associated with newer, less diverse, higher income municipalities in the corridor. The findings will be used to help plan regional transportation projects.

During the last two fiscal years EPA awarded a combined total of $1.28 million to 73 non-profit organizations which work at the local level on behalf of communities to address environmental/public health issues. Since 1994, EPA has awarded $17.68 million to 1,052 grant recipients.

11/8/2004