City gets $400,000 in EPA grants

(March 12, 2006) – Oklahoma City will receive two brownfields grants totaling $400,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency.

One $200,000 grant will be used to clean up petroleum contamination at the site of the new Bricktown Fire Station at Lincoln Boulevard and Sheridan.

The second grant will be used to inventory City brownfields sites, assess sites, conduct community outreach and involvement and develop cleanup plans. Properties will be cleaned up through the City’s existing brownfields loan program.

A brownfield is a property, usually urban, whose current usefulness is hampered by previous pollution or contamination.