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• EPA Announces Plans to Accelerate Cleanup of Superfund Projects in Tennessee

  Nationally, EPA announces plans to use first $1B from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funds to clear out the Superfund backlog

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Plans to Accelerate Cleanup of Superfund Projects in Tennessee

  • Release Date: December 17, 2021

• EPA Awards 2021 Environmental Justice Small Grants to Local Communities in the Southeast

  Nationally, EPA Announces $14.1 Million to Fund 133 Environmental Justice Grants

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards 2021 Environmental Justice Small Grants to Local Communities in the Southeast

  • Release Date: December 16, 2021

• T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition – Superfund Site in Montgomery, Alabama Partially Deleted from Superfund National Priorities List

  EPA News Release: T.H. Agriculture & Nutrition – Superfund Site in Montgomery, Alabama Partially Deleted from Superfund National Priorities List

  • Release Date: September 20, 2021

• EPA Takes Action to Address Risks to Public Health by proposing to add the National Fireworks site in Cordova, Tennessee to the National Priorities List

  EPA News Release: EPA Takes Action to Address Risks to Public Health by proposing to add the National Fireworks site in Cordova, Tennessee to the National Priorities List

  • Release Date: September 9, 2021

• City of Chattanooga, Tennessee Receives $500,000 in Supplemental Funds to Clean Up and Reuse Brownfield Sites

  Nationally, $11.6 Million in funding to Cleanup and Redevelop Contaminated Brownfield Sites in Communities Across the U.S

  EPA News Release: City of Chattanooga, Tennessee Receives $500,000 in Supplemental Funds to Clean Up and Reuse Brownfield Sites

  • Release Date: June 16, 2021

• EPA Awards East Tennessee Development District $600,000 a Brownfields Assessment Coalition Grant

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards East Tennessee Development District $600,000 a Brownfields Assessment Coalition Grant

  • Release Date: May 20, 2021

• EPA Selects Three Projects in Tennessee to Receive $1.5 Million for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment

  The grant awards help underserved communities across the country Build Back Better and address Environmental Justice concerns

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects Three Projects in Tennessee to Receive $1.5 Million for Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment

  • Release Date: May 13, 2021

• EPA Announces Deletion of the Tennessee Products Superfund Site in Chattanooga, Tennessee from Superfund National Priorities List

  EPA provides lasting benefit to communities by deleting all or part of 27 Superfund sites from the National Priorities List - the highest number in 18 Years

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Deletion of the Tennessee Products Superfund Site in Chattanooga, Tennessee from Superfund National Priorities List

  • Release Date: October 29, 2019

• Superfund Task Force Issues Final Report and Announces Plans to Continue Program Improvements Moving Forward

  EPA News Release: Superfund Task Force Issues Final Report and Announces Plans to Continue Program Improvements Moving Forward

  • Release Date: September 9, 2019

• MONDAY: EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to mark Superfund Task Force Milestone in Chattanooga

  EPA News Release: MONDAY: EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to mark Superfund Task Force Milestone in Chattanooga

  • Release Date: September 6, 2019