Economic Development:

Dollar Amounts of EPA's Grants and Agreements

RCED-96-178R, May 29, 1996

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the total dollar value of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) grants and agreements for fiscal years 1993 through 1995. GAO noted that: (1) from FY 1993 to FY 1995, EPA awarded grants and entered into agreements totalling $11.1 billion; and (2) while the $11.1 billion in grants and agreements went to 4,021 grantees, the largest distributions went to local and state government agencies.