CHICAGO — Eighteen communities in Michigan will receive federal grants totaling about $10.7 million to help assess, clean up and revitalize former industrial and commercial sites.
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brownfields grants are designed to clean up contaminated properties and make them productive again.
The largest grants of $1 million each are going to Bay City, the Detroit-Wayne County Port Authority, Grand Rapids, Grand Traverse County, Leelanau County, the Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority and the St. Clair County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. Most of those grants will be used to provide loans for cleanup activities.
Grand Rapids is receiving two other grants totaling $300,000 to assess the presence of petroleum or hazardous substances at individual sites. http://bit.ly/cr5k2h
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