Craig Field wins $681K brownfield grant to clean flight line

For the first time in 45 years, Craig Field Airport is a controlled airport, and officials hope that means growth is on the horizon.

Craig Field and Industrial Authority is getting a grant to cleanup the flight line site at the airport in Selma.

Craig will get $681,750 from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brownfield cleanup grant. It is part of $315 million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda given to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites across the country while advancing environmental justice.

Craig is one of 262 communities receiving 267 grants totaling more than $215 million in competitive EPA Brownfields funding through the Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup (MARC) Grant programs. It is from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this is the largest ever funding awarded in the history of the EPA’s Brownfields MARC Grant programs.

Craig Field announced last week receiving a $2.4 million grant from the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration for the remote air traffic control academy. 

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