{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://adams.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-adams-delivers-grant-clean-kannapolis-brownfield", "Rep. Adams Delivers Grant to Clean Up Kannapolis Brownfield", "2024-07-24", "2024", "2024-07", "Democrat", "House", "NC", "Alma S. Adams", "A000370", "adams.house.gov", "adams", "https://adams.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "KANNAPOLIS, NC \u2013 Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) has announced that the city of Kannapolis, North Carolina will receive a $1 million federal grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), toward cleaning up a \u201cbrownfield\u201d (an EPA designation for an environmentally contaminated site). This funding is part of a national tranche of grants from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) passed under the Biden-Harris Administration.\n\nThe multipurpose grant will fund assessments, community engagement planning and support clean-up activities at multiple contaminated sites.\n\n\u201cI am proud to have supported the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and to bring home these much-needed resources for the city of Kannapolis,\u201d said Rep. Adams. \u201cYou can\u2019t build affordable housing, or grow food, or treat sick children, on contaminated land. By removing contaminated sites and soil, we\u2019ve ensured this land can now be utilized by the community.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe are hopeful that this EPA Brownfields Multipurpose Grant will create opportunities for revitalization of abandoned and underutilized properties of Kannapolis, resulting in more resilient neighborhoods and more access to affordable housing, open space, and new jobs,\u201d said Kannapolis Mayor Darrell Hinnant. \u201cI want to thank the EPA for selecting Kannapolis and thank Congresswoman Adams, Congressman Bishop, Senator Budd, and Senator Tillis for supporting this project.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe are pleased that our Congressional delegation aided us in receiving this grant. Assessing the sites is the first step in determining the future redevelopment of these properties, some of which were initially used to serve the functions of the former Cannon Mills,\u201d added Kannapolis City Manager Mike Legg.\n\n###\n\nCongresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. represents North Carolina's 12th Congressional District (Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, Cabarrus County) and serves on the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Committee on Education & the Workforce, where she serves as ranking member of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://adams.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-adams-delivers-grant-clean-kannapolis-brownfield"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7808618247509003, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}