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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced a $50 million award for tax credits from the U.S. Treasury Department to New Jersey Community Capital, which is located in New Brunswick. The funds, which will be used by New Jersey Community Capital to award tax credits to investors in projects, are aimed at stimulating economic growth in low-income urban neighborhoods and rural communities. A significant priority and target for the tax credits will be areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today at a hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule to revise air quality standards for ozone, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded the proposal because of the positive impact it would have on public health. The hearing took place in the Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced that two New Jerseyans will testify this Thursday at the Committee’s Health Subcommittee hearing on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act. The witnesses will be Dr. Iris Udasin, Medical Director of the Rutgers’ Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), and one of her patients, David Howley, a New Jersey resident and retired NYPD police officer.

LONG BRANCH, NJ – On Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) will host his annual U.S. Service Academy Day at Naval Weapons Station Earle. The event will provide a forum for students who are interested in attending one of the prestigious U.S. Service Academies to learn more about the process for admission. The event will focus on the admissions process, steps to obtaining a congressional nomination, and lifestyles as Cadets or Midshipmen at the academies.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – In advance of a June 11^th hearing on legislation to ensure first responders and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center continue to receive the monitoring and care they need, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today toured and held a press conference at the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program clinic at Rutgers. Pallone called on Congress to pass the legislation, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act.

WASHINGTON, DC – Following Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (NJ-06) letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service requesting the denial of proposed restrictions on fishing for blueline tilefish along the Atlantic coast, NOAA has indefinitely delayed its decision on the proposal. The proposal – from the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council – is for NOAA to apply the South Atlantic’s restriction of one blueline tilefish per vessel, per day to the entire length of the Atlantic.

After Four Decades, Toxic Chemicals Reform Key to New Jersey Takes Significant Step Forward

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as Congress begins the appropriations process, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) highlighted the importance of funding research agencies by announcing a $359,986 federal grant from the National Science Foundation to Rutgers University New Brunswick. The grant is for a project to design “a fiber-optic probe that will enable examination of tissue for signs of disease in real-time, non-invasively, at the level of traditional pathology.” Through this technology, a doctor could perform a biopsy (i.e.