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EPA Award
The EPA has awarded the City of New Bedford a $200,000 grant to further clean-up efforts at a brownfield site. The grant will go towards work at the former Payne Cutlery site at the southernmost section of Church Street. The 148-acre site is situated along a three-quarter mile stretch of the planned Southcoast Rail Corridor, and redevelopment of the area looks to transform it into a transit-orient