(AGENPARL) – mer 13 settembre 2023 Issued: Sep 13, 2023 (4:32pm EDT)
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EPA awards $4 million for new Green Waste facilities in Logan City, Utah
New recycling and composting services funded through the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law
Logan, Utah (September 13, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) announced $4 million from President Biden’s
Investing in America agenda to develop a Regional Green Waste Facility in
Logan City, Utah, that will provide composting services for biosolids and yard
waste for the city and communities across Cache County. EPA is also making
$652,000 available to the state of Utah to improve solid waste management
planning and data collection in communities across the state. Thanks to the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this funding to expand and create new waste
management facilities in Utah is part of EPA’s largest recycling investment
in 30 years.
“EPA’s Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling funds are helping
communities across the nation reuse waste and reduce local and global
environmental impacts,” said EPA Regional Administrator KC Becker. 
“These new facilities will serve Logan City and Cache County residents for
many years to come.” 
EPA’s grant to Logan City will help construct a new Regional Green Waste
Facility which will compost biosolids, yard waste and other organic waste
through new and expanded operations adjacent to the city’s wastewater
treatment plant. This will include new utilities, stormwater pumps, piping and
air plenums for aerated static composting; several acres of community gardens
and landscaping; a new yard waste facility; and a new access road.  The Logan
Regional Green Waste Facility project will greatly expand Logan City and Cache
County’s composting infrastructure, reduce landfill waste and manage
biosolids, organics and food waste to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“We are grateful for the EPA funding to complete our biosolids composting
facility,” said Issa Hamud, Logan City’s Environmental Department
Director. “The EPA funding pushes this timeline up so that within 18 months
we will no longer be landfilling biosolids from the regional
wastewater treatment facility. This will help consolidate our green waste
facility, save landfill space and avoid carbon emissions from landfilled
biosolids for the next 50 years.”
The grant award to Logan City is part of the agency’s newly created Solid
Waste for Recycling funding opportunity. As part of today’s
announcement, EPA selected 25 communities across the nation to receive grants
totaling more than $73 million. In addition, the agency is making available
approximately $32 million for states and territories to improve solid waste
management planning, data collection and plan implementation.
EPA’s Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grant Program is advancing
the Justice40 Initiative, which aims to ensure that 40% of the overall
benefits of certain federal investments flow to communities that are
marginalized, underserved and overburdened by pollution.
These grants represent important steps toward achieving the EPA’s National
Recycling Goal and Food Loss and Waste Reduction Goal and will help build
an economy devoted to keeping materials, products and services in circulation
for as long as possible, what’s known as a circular economy.
Additional Background
Today’s announcement for states, territories and communities is the first
round of funding from this new grant program. In the coming months, EPA will
announce the selected recipients of the recycling grants for Tribes and
intertribal consortia, as well as the recipients of EPA’s new Recycling
Education and Outreach grant program. 
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $275 million total from fiscal year
2022 to fiscal year 2026 for grants authorized under the Save Our Seas 2.0
Act, the largest investment in recycling in 30 years. The recycling grants are
supplemented with additional funding provided through EPA’s annual
appropriations. EPA has selected these entities to receive funding for
recycling infrastructure projects and anticipates making all the awards
announced today once all legal and administrative requirements are
satisfied. 
For details about the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grant Program
selectees and other Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-related funding
opportunities, visit the EPA recycling grants webpage.
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