[CPEO-BIF] Old Colorado Fuel & Iron Administration Building, Bessemer, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA awards $200,000 to Bessemer museum for cleanup

BY PETER ROPER 
PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN (CO)
April 29, 2018

The Bessemer Historical Society will be getting a $200,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to help restore the old Colorado Fuel & Iron Administration Building.

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Doug Gradisar, president of the Bessemer society, said the $200,000 grant will help pay for removing asbestos, lead and arsenic contamination on the 5-acre property where the old CF&I offices sit.

That work is all part of the growing Steelworks Museum at that location.

"This building was built in 1901 as an office space for CF&I and was the workplace for hundreds of workers for nearly a century," he said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.chieftain.com/news/pueblo/epa-awards-to-bessemer-museum-for-cleanup/article_f80be689-0e74-59ca-b07f-da5cb6ca8543.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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