$2.5 million goes to asbestos screening
John M. Blodgett | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years AGO
U.S. Senator Steve Daines announced Wednesday the approval of $2,499,999 to continue funding asbestos health screening at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease Clinic in Libby.
The funding covers the third year of a four-year block grant that began in 2015, said Tanis Hernandez, the clinic’s administrative director.
“Every year, we have to do a continuation application,” she explained.
The grant is the clinic’s second consecutive four-year grant made possible by the so-called Libby provisions in the Affordable Care Act, which were championed by former Montana Sen. Max Baucus.
The grants come from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program that covers early detection of certain medical conditions related to an environmental health hazard.
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