Bear Paw receives grant to assess contaminated property

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com

Several hundred thousand dollars more of federal economic recovery money will pour into the region this fall as the local economic development agency receives funding to assess possible contaminated sites in its five-county region of operations. Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., said the federal Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Bear Paw $400,000 through the brownfield program, used to identify and clean up property so it can be used commercially. “That's the goal of the brownfiel...