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Carson secures multiple brownfields grants totaling about $4.4 million; staff eyes EPA job‑training application
Summary
City staff reported competitive brownfields funding the city has won recently, including grants for site investigations, citywide brownfields work and a new $1 million EPA revolving loan fund; board discussed using grants to catalyze redevelopment and workforce training for refinery workers.
City of Carson staff told the Carson Enhancement Infrastructure Financing District Public Financing Authority on June 23 that the city has secured several competitive brownfields and brownfield‑related grants totaling approximately $4,400,000 over the past three years and is preparing an EPA brownfields job‑training application.
Manager of Special Projects James Wynne said the city recently received about $236,000 for additional site investigation on a 24‑acre EIFD property, a $500,000 EPA grant to address brownfields citywide, and a $1,000,000 EPA grant to establish a revolving loan fund to support cleanup and redevelopment. Wynne said the revolving loan fund could enable the city to work with private entities to clean and develop contaminated properties. He said, in…
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