Two grants totaling $400,000 were awarded yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency to help revitalize two former industrial and commercial sites in Rhode Island, with the hope of transforming them from problem properties into community assets.
Brownfields grants of $200,000 were made to the city of Providecne and Johnson & Wales University. The funding will help pay to assess, clean and redevelop abandoned, contaminated parcels.
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The funding is among $75.9 million of Brownfields grants announced this week by EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, including more than $11.6 million within New England alone.
Brownfields funds help communities assess contamination at abandoned and vacant sites and estimate the costs of cleaning up sites for redevelopment. Municipalities and select organizations can also receive funding for cleanup grants and to establish revolving loan programs that provide low interest loans for cleanups.
