{"id":302221,"date":"2019-06-26T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=302221"},"modified":"2019-06-26T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:00:39","slug":"epa-awards-1-96m-to-becq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/epa-awards-1-96m-to-becq\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA awards $1.96M to BECQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<\/strong>\u2014The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $1.96 million to the CNMI Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality to strengthen its capacity to protect human health and the environment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CNMI government has been a great partner in environmental protection,\u201d said EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Mike Stoker. \u201cWe are pleased to support the CNMI BECQ, which is committed to achieving a better environment for all the residents of CNMI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BECQ uses EPA funding to support inspections, emergency responses, radon assessments, coral reef protection, monitoring of beaches and water quality, drinking water improvements, cleanups of contaminated lands and polluted streams, and support for safe use of pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality through its Division of Environmental Quality has developed a strong partnership with the\u2026EPA in the development and implementation of environmental programs that aims to protect public health and the environment of the CNMI,\u201d said CNMI BECQ administrator Eli Cabrera. \u201cThe continued funding support and technical assistance from the EPA has been pivotal in the enhancement of DEQ\u2019s environmental programs and the capacity-building trainings that have broaden[ed] the capability DEQ\u2019s personnel in all areas of environmental protection.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>BECQ extend its appreciation on behalf of the CNMI for EPA\u2019s support in the response and recovery from the devastation of Super Typhoon Yutu.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA\u2019s Pacific Southwest Region (Region 9) administers and enforces federal environmental laws in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and 148 tribal nations\u2014home to more than 50 million people. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO\u2014The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $1.96 million to the CNMI Bureau of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[880,352],"class_list":["post-302221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-becq","tag-epa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}