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Beaverton will receive $400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up brownfields on the site of the city's future Public Safety Center.
The cleanup of the Shell gasoline station at the southwest corner of Allen and Hall boulevards — a station still in operation — is one of the remaining tasks before the city can demolish the former Beaverton Activities Center. The money also will pay for cleanup of a diesel spill that occurred on adjoining property in 2006.
Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced funding for critical priorities for Oregon's coastal communities in the 2018 spending bill released yesterday.
"I fought to make this bill really deliver for Oregon's coastal communities, and it does," Merkley said. "This funding supports core programs, from small ports, to marine research, to coastal salmon recovery."
Congress faces a funding deadline this week as lawmakers scramble to sort out what policy riders will make the fiscal 2018 omnibus appropriations package.
Lawmakers will need to pass the bill no later than Friday, when a temporary funding measure expires. If they fail, many federal agencies would be forced to shut down at the end of the week.
Negotiations that extended through the weekend were expected to lead to an agreement being announced by tonight.
US Senator Ron Wyden and US Representative Suzanne Bonamici are urging Congress to provide long-term, lifeline funding for rural counties in upcoming must-pass legislation.
The Oregon lawmakers -- along with county commissioners from across the country -- have called upon Congress to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program and provide full funding for Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) in legislation that must be passed by March 23rd to keep the government running.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., along with a bipartisan group of members of Congress and county commissioners from across the country, today urged Congress to provide long-term, lifeline funding for rural counties in upcoming must-pass legislation.