[StBernard] EPA Awards Over $7 Million to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality

[Westley Annis]

EPA Awards Over $7 Million to the Louisiana Department of Environmental
Quality 

  

(Dallas, Texas - September 3, 2009)  The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has awarded $7,456,000 to the Louisiana Department of Environmental
Quality (LDEQ).  These funds will be used by the State of Louisiana to
provide loans and other types of financial assistance to local communities
and intermunicipal and interstate agencies for wastewater improvements.  The
effect of the financing will be improved water quality in streams, lakes,
rivers and bays with resulting benefits to aquatic life and for use as
drinking water sources, as well as the elimination of health hazards from
raw sewage discharges. 

  

Additional information on EPA grants:
http://www.epa.gov/region6/gandf/index.htm
<http://www.epa.gov/region6/gandf/index.htm>  

  

More about activities in EPA Region 6:  http://www.epa.gov/region6
<http://www.epa.gov/region6>  

  

EPA audio file is available for 30 days at
http://www.epa.gov/region6/6xa/podcast/sep2009.html
<http://www.epa.gov/region6/6xa/podcast/sep2009.html>  

  

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