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Pinellas Scores Max In EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grants

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By CARLOS MONCADA | The Tampa Tribune

Published: April 8, 2008

CLEARWATER - Pinellas County will receive three Brownfields Cleanup Grants totaling $600,000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.

The money will be used to remove garbage from historical landfill sites in the Dansville Neighborhood and fill the excavations with clean soil. The parcels served as unregulated landfills used for dumping solid waste in the 1960s and 1970s.

Only seven communities of 108 received the maximum award of $600,000, the EPA said. In all, 209 applicants were selected to receive 314 Brownfields grants.

Brownfields sites are abandoned, idled or underused industrial and commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by actual or perceived environmental contamination. A Brownfields designation can spur redevelopment, EPA and county officials said.

Reporter Carlos Moncada can be reached at (727) 451-2333 or cmoncada@tampatrib.com.

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