[CPEO-BIF] "K-State to collaborate with Native American tribes to decontaminate lands with EPA funding"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

K-State to collaborate with Native American tribes to decontaminate lands with EPA funding

By Emily Moore 


K-State to collaborate with Native American tribes to decontaminate lands with EPA funding
Kansas State Collegian
December 8, 2017

Five hundred and sixty seven federally recognized Native American tribes will be able to collaborate with K-State to help in decontamination planning for their lands. K-State received a $2 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in August for this project. 

Oral Saulters, project manager at the Center for Hazardous Substance Research, said this is the first project of its kind.

“This is the first nationwide effort to provide this kind of technical assistance to tribal communities to address brownfields,” Saulters said.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency website, brownfields are areas of land in which the use of the land can be “complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2017/12/08/k-state-to-collaborate-with-native-american-tribes-to-decontaminate-lands-with-epa-funding/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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