The Biden administration has awarded $3 million in grants to evaluate, clean and reuse polluted Southern California properties.
Five Southern California communities have been awarded federal grants totaling $3 million to help transform polluted 'brownfield' sites into land that's safe for development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced. The Orange County Transportation Authority received a $1-million grant to conduct environmental site assessments and clean up its 18.
'If we can do something to make that land available and safe for us to build on affordably, then we're going to want to include that in the assessment process and then work with the cities to plan on that,' O'Sullivan said. This is the first time that the OCCOG has received a federal grant to study and plan for the cleanup of polluted properties in Orange County, Executive Director Marnie O’Brien Primmer said.
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