Vice President Announces 16 Brownfields Showcase Communities (fwd)

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VICE PRESIDENT GORE NAMES 16 "SHOWCASE COMMUNITIES",
UNDER "BROWNFIELDS" PROGRAM

Communities to Receive Funds and Other Aid As Models
of Innovative Environmental Cleanup and
Revitalization

WASHINGTON, DC - Vice President Gore today named the
16 cities to receive $28 million in targeted, Administration- 
wide assistance and serve as models of innovative
environmental cleanup and economic revitalization.

The announcement is part of the Administration's
efforts clean up Brownfields -abandoned contaminated
properties -- and return them to thriving centers of
America's communities.

"Across the nation, abandoned industrial properties
are robbing communities and neighborhoods of the
opportunity to share in the nation's economic
progress, the Vice President said. "This
Administration has taken action to help cities and
communities clean up these Brownfields and enable
them to serve as sources of economic vitality, of
jobs, and of community pride."

The 16 communities -- designated as Brownfields
Showcase Communities -- will receive about $28
million in funding and coordinated technical
assistance from 15 federal agencies for
environmental cleanup and economic revitalization as
part of the Administration's Brownfields National
Partnership -- the single, largest federal
commitment to clean up and redevelop brownfields.

The sixteen communities are:

                        Baltimore, MD 
                        Chicago, IL 
                        Dallas, TX 
                        East Palo Alto, CA 
                        Eastward Ho!, FL 
                        Glen Cove, NY 
                        Kansas City, KS/MO 
                        Los Angeles, CA 
                        Lowell, MA 
                        Portland, OR 
                        State of Rhode Island 
                        St. Paul, MN 
                        Salt Lake City, UT 
                        Seattle, WA 
                        Stamford, CT 
                        Trenton, NJ 

EPA has prepared an overall fact sheet about the Brownfields
Showcase Communities project, as well as individual fact sheets on
each of the 16 communities.  These are available on the Web at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/showcase.htm

For more information on the Brownfields Initiative, please visit EPA's
Brownfields Home Page at:
www.epa.gov/brownfields