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Smart Growth Strategies for Transportation Electrification
This page introduces the the link between community planning, EV charging infrastructure, and smart growth strategies and highlights EPA collaboration on these topics with other federal agencies and communities.
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About Smart Growth
Overview of smart growth and its environmental benefits, and how EPA works on smart growth and sustainable communities issues.
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Smart Growth Topics
Links to pages that explain how smart growth strategies relate to various topics.
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Leveraging Opportunity Zones for Community Revitalization
Tools to help communities use Opportunity Zone (OZ) designation to advance plans and visions for redevelopment and revitalization while prioritizing specific needs and preserving community character
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Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award
Recognizes Citizen Participation
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National Drinking Water Advisory Council November 17 - 19, 2015: Public Meeting Materials
Regulatory and related updates, final recommendations of the Lead and Copper Working Group to the NDWAC, Statement of Dissent to the NDWAC, EPA's efforts to address harmful Algal Blooms in drinking water and technologies for Legionella control.
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Public Outreach for the SNEP Program
Learn more about public outreach for Southeast New England Program.
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Superfund Sites in Reuse in Illinois
Notable sites in reuse and continued use in Illinois include North Shore Gas South Plant, Kerr-McGee (Reed Keppler Park), Kerr-McGee (Residential Areas), Kerr-McGee (Sewage Treatment Plant), Outboard Marine Corp., and Ottawa Radiation Areas.
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Superfund Sites in Reuse in Kansas
Notable sites in reuse and continued use in Kansas include Doepke Disposal (Holliday), Ace Services, Cherokee County, Tri-County Public Airport, Chemical Commodities, Inc., and Kansas City Structural Steel.
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Superfund Sites in Reuse in Georgia
Sites in reuse and continued use in Georgia include Armstrong World Industries, Camilla Wood Preserving Company, Cedartown Industries, Inc., Cedartown Municipal Landfill, Hercules 009 Landfill, LCP Chemicals Georgia, and Macon Naval Ordnance Plant.
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General Competition Selected Applications Table
Climate Pollution Reduction Grants
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Tribes and Territories Competition Selected Applications Table
Selected applications for the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Tribes ad Territories competition
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Smart Growth and Housing
This page describes how a smart growth approach to housing can help communities and their residents be better stewards of the environment and achieve more affordable communities.
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Attracting Infill Development in Distressed Communities: 30 Strategies
This report gives 30 strategies distressed communities can use to attract infill development to help revitalize their neighborhoods.
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2006 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement Booklet
2006 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement Booklet displays the winners of the 2006 Smart Growth Achievement Awards along with their projects and accomplishments that earned them this recognition.
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Smart Growth and Water
This page contains resources that communities can use to integrate green infrastructure into streets and neighborhoods to reduce stormwater runoff, use water more efficiently, and protect water from pollution.
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Location and Green Building
This page explains the relationship between a building's location and its environmental and community impacts.
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What is the status of the cleanup at the site?
In October 2023, it was announced that the excavation work, which removed the known areas of contaminated soil at the derailment site, was complete. The soil double-check work has been ongoing for months and is expected to continue into the fall. The timeline of our expected completion plans for final…
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When can we access the streams again?
The upcoming cleanup efforts will focus on oil-based compounds which, based on recent sampling, are the only derailment-related contaminants remaining in the creeks. Please obey all posted signage and continue to avoid access in Sulphur and Leslie Runs until further notice.
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When will water no longer need to be collected to be returned to Sulphur Run?
We anticipate in the next two-to-four weeks, this work will start in sections of the derailment site. Soil analysis during the double-check phase is needed to remove the hazardous waste listing from the collected wastewater. Data are showing that water flowing over or through sections of the derailment area do…