[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces Brownfields and Recycling Grant Workshop in Yuma

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ADEQ Director Owens Announces Brownfields and Recycling Grant Workshop
in Yuma

PHOENIX (Dec. 11, 2007) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) Director Steve Owens announced today that ADEQ will play host to
a free workshop on brownfields and recycling grants funding
opportunities Thursday Dec. 20 from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Yuma
County Public Works Department, 4343 S. Ave 5 1/2 East. 

ADEQ's brownfields grants provide financial resources to assist in the
return of contaminated and potentially contaminated properties back to
productive reuse, spurring economic revitalization and growth at these
underutilized and blighted properties. 

The workshop will focus on helping participants understand the basic
elements of the grant program, the process for submitting grant
proposals, the required proposal elements and improving the success rate
of submitted proposals. 

"We want to help local communities learn about how to obtain brownfields
and recycling grants to help clean up contaminated properties and put
them back into productive use, as well as reduce the amount of waste
that goes into local landfills," Owens said. "We want to make sure that
Yuma gets its fair share of these funds." 

The workshop is free and open to the public. Registration or attendance
notification is not required. 

More information is available from: 
*	Arcelious Stephens, ADEQ Brownfields Coordinator, (800)
234-5677, ext. 771-4401, as1@azdeq.gov. 
*	Laura Newman, ADEQ Recycling Education Coordinator, (800)
234-5677, ext. 771-4459, lkn@azdeq.gov. 

ADEQ also has Web pages on recycling and brownfields: 
*	www.azdeq.gov/environ/waste/solid/recycle2.html
*	www.azdeq.gov/environ/waste/cleanup/brownfields.html 

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News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov.

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