Communities in 44 states, including 11 in Pennsylvania, will share more than $75 million in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, transforming them from problem properties into community assets. The Pennsylvania grants include:

· Allegheny County Redevelopment Authority

· Bucks County Redevelopment Authority

· Butler County

· Chester County Economic Development Council

· Earth Conservancy

· Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation

· Lycoming County

· Philadelphia

· Sayre Borough

· Washington County Authority

· West-to-West Coalition, Inc. Monongahela River Valley

The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002 authorizes up to $250 million in funds annually for brownfields grants. That law broadened the definition of a brownfield to include mine-scarred lands, sites contaminated by petroleum or areas polluted by the manufacture of illegal drugs.

For more information, visit EPA’s brownfields webpage.

5/13/2005