[CPEO-MEF] Tiyan (GU) former military land

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$1M in EPA grants to benefit island soil
Contaminated Tiyan land to get some help

By Tammy Anderson
Pacific Sunday News(GU)
May 14, 2006

Two Guam agencies were awarded a total of $1 million in grants to clean 
up former industrial properties of contaminants so they can be developed.

The Brownfield grants are part of the $70 million that the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency has awarded to states and territories 
this year to help transform former sites into productive community assets.

"Today's grants will help speed the cleanup and redevelopment of 
properties, providing jobs and helping revitalize neighborhoods," said 
Wayne Nastri, administrator of the U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest Region, 
in the press release.

The A.B. Won Pat Guam International Airport Authority will receive 
$600,000 to clean up former military property now known as Tiyan.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060514/NEWS01/605140304/1002

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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