EPA Technical Assistance Grant Awarded to LEAD
Earl Hatley and Rebecca Jim receiving
TAG program grant for LEAD Agency, Inc.
10th Conference
on
Tar
Creek
September 2008
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Making a Difference at the Tar Creek Superfund Site: Community Efforts to Reduce Risk is a book that we hope will inspire other communities facing environmental injustices. It comes with a DVD featuring a new film Progress at Tar Creek and two films of youth efforts through service learning. The first printing was made possible through a grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.
Thank you for sharing our vision to make a difference. There is still more to be done. LEAD Agency will accept donations to reproduce additonal copies and to allow for postage.
LEAD Agency, Inc.,19257 South 4403 Drive, Vinita, OK 74301
Awarded to
L.E.A.D., Inc.
Central Mill History
Harvard Children's Environmental Health & Disease Prevention Research
Children's Environmental
Health & Disease Research
Introduction to
Tar Creek
Superfund Site
Is Your Child's
Playground Safe?
LEAD's new
Environmental
Justice Grant
OK Sustainability
Network
Western Mining Action Network
An understanding of the technical issues concerning a hazardous waste site helps citizens provide thoughtful, informed comments to United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision makers considering proposed Superfund actions. Recognizing the importance of community involvement, and the need for citizens living near these sites to be well informed, Congress included provisions in the Superfund amendments to establish a Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) program.
The TAG program provides up to $50,000 per site to a community group for the purpose of hiring technical advisors. The group must provide at least 20 percent of the total costs of their project and must budget the expenditure of grant funds to cover the life of the Superfund process at the site.
The EPA awarded a TAG to Local Environmental Action Demanded (L.E.A.D.) Agency, Inc. The grant award, totaling $50,000 in federal funds, and $12,500 in matching funds from L.E.A.D., was signed by EPA on May 1, 2001.
For more information, we suggest reading Rebecca Jim's article in the Multi-Agency Team Newsletter.