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Community Action warns $20 million EPA award frozen; county programs could face cuts
Summary
Okanogan County Community Action told commissioners an EPA $20 million award for a multipurpose community center in Omak is frozen by a federal funding hold, and state and federal budget cuts could shrink multiple local programs.
Rena Schauber, executive director of the Okanogan County Community Action Council, told the Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 24 that the agency’s $20,000,000 Environmental Protection Agency award for a multipurpose community center in Omak is on hold because of a federal funding freeze.
“We were contacted by the EPA saying that we would be a recipient of $20,000,000,” Schauber said, and then, she said, agency staff went silent when federal freezes took effect. The proposed facility — planned behind the county behavioral health and family health centers — would combine Community Action’s offices with three child-care rooms, a weatherization shop, a market-style food pantry, classrooms and a smoke‑filtered HVAC system intended for emergency shelter and…
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