Michigan Agency Awards Scrap Tire Grants

Department of Environmental Quality seeks to boost tire recycling projects in the state with grant money.

Grants totaling $150,000 have been awarded to help clean up Michigan's scrap tires. Twenty-one applicants were selected to receive DEQ grants ranging from $1,500 to $17,758, to clean up an estimated 135,000 tires.

Charles Wilson Clock, the owner of a site in Allegan County was the recipient of a $6,000 grant.

Four additional grants totaling $450,000 have been submitted to the State Administrative Board for approval, but have yet to be announced.

Property owners with abandoned scrap tires, or scrap tires at collection sites were eligible to receive these funds.

"The DEQ continues to use limited funds provided by the Scrap Tire Cleanup Program to help reduce the potential public health and environmental concerns, such as fire and mosquitoes, associated with these scrap tire sites," DEQ quality director Steven E. Chester said. "The program funds for this year will completely clean up several tire sites and will create critical fire lanes in other scrap tire sites throughout the state."

The DEQ announced that 21 applicants were to receive grant awards of under $25,000, totaling $150,000, with funding made available under the authority of Part 169, Scrap Tires, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended. Under Resolution 2003-1, all grants and contracts over $25,000 are required to be approved by the State Administrative Board.

These additional four grants will bring the total of the funds granted this year to $600,000.

 “With the approval of these additional grants, the DEQ will further help to reduce the potential public health and environmental concerns, such as fire and mosquitoes, associated with these scrap tire sites. The program funds for this year will completely clean up some tire sites and will create critical fire lanes in other scrap tire accumulations throughout the state,” Director Chester said. The grantees will have until August 2003 to complete contract requirements for having their tires removed, processed, and used by an end-user acceptable to the DEQ.

The following is a listing of the four additional approved grantees receiving scrap tire cleanup contracts under the program:

Clare County            Wheat Tire Site)            Clare County            $75,375

Genesee Township            Genesee County            $131,250

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