Grants

Letcher County and the city of Fleming-Neon are getting nearly $10 million to help improve their water lines.

Kentucky’s branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is sending $3.3 million dollars to rural communities for clean energy projects.

A $5 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency will help redevelop the non-operational CSX Ravenna Rail Yard in Estill County.

A grant from the Environmental Protection Agency is being made available to help clean Kentucky’s polluted streams, rivers and lakes.

Kentucky is joining Ohio and North Carolina as part of a group looking into how to implement electric infrastructure at Appalachian airports.

Nearly two million dollars from the federal Bureau of Justice will help an initiative to create crisis intervention programs in Kentucky courts. It comes from the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program

The Neighborhood Enhancement Match Grant Program is meant to fund improvements to public property and promote cleanup efforts in corridors around the city.

The city says it’s awarded $300,000 to residents, nonprofits, cultural organizations and performing arts centers. The money will be used to create new art and activities around Lexington ahead of a year-long celebration in 2025.

More than one million dollars from the Appalachian Regional Commission will help extend a waterline in Letcher County.

The Department of the Interior says the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Program is meant to help create jobs and improve land in communities that have been affected by the downturn in coal production.