To reduce paper
sent to outside parties, it now offers online banking customers the option of
electronic statements in place of paper statements, for which over 1 million
customers have signed up.

Conrad Weiser Area School District - $1,500 to develop lab-based
activities by teachers on biofuels and alternative fuels.

State College Area School District - $900 to support field trips for
10 kindergarten classrooms to receive programming at Millbrook Marsh
Nature Center through a half-day program entitled "Wetlands Critters "
Panorama Village.

School District of Erie - $1,500 to visit watersheds regarding non-point
source pollution, land use and biodiversity.

Jefferson County - DuBois AVTS - $1,500 to provide hands-on instruction
in the classroom, on school campus and in the community, in the areas of
sustainable energy sources and technology.

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1 SBA lender to minority -owned
small businesses. - $10,000 to present a three-day
educator training workshop at Three Sisters Farm."

Erie County Conservation District - $1,500 to develop several watershed
maps that can be used as teaching tools.

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In 2004, the bank recycled 28,268 tons of paper,
effectively recycling all the paper it uses internally, plus the same amount
again received from external sources . The company serves clients in 150 countries and has
relationships with 98 percent of the U.

http://www. LEESPORT, Pa. - $8,000 to develop and implement a
four-day watershed workshop targeted at teachers in school districts in
small urban areas of southeastern Pennsylvania .

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In 2004, 70 percent of the paper purchased by the bank contained recycled
content, at an average of 20 percent post-consumer content. "Efficient use of
resources reduces environmental impacts and expenses, driving benefits for
both our shareholders and the communities in which we do business .
"An engaged public is one of our most powerful tools in efforts to protect
our air, land and water resources," McGinty said."

Miller African-centered Academy - $1,460 to explore renewable and
non-renewable resources, human practices, laws and regulations, and the
benefits of composting as a method of recycling.

Northern Cambria School District - $1 ,295 to provide transportation for
students to participate in a field trip to several tributaries to get an
indication of their health and their impact on the West Branch of the
Susquehanna River.

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"This new
policy expands on Bank of America's heritage of environmental stewardship to
address climate change, biodiversity and conservation of natural systems.
During the same time period in which the bank's assets have grown from
$670 billion in 2000 to more than $1 trillion in 2004 , it has decreased the
amount of paper used in internal operations by 32 percent. 1 overall Small Business Administration
(SBA) lender in the United States and the No., On behalf of Gov.
The conservation district offers a wide range environmental education
programs to Berks County residents , including Senior and Junior High
Envirothons, Don Hartman Conservation Leadership School, Youth Scholarship
Program, and Soil and Water Stewardship Week.

CLARION COUNTY
North Central Region Math/Science Education Collaborative - $10,000 to
fund a two-day workshop entitled "Sustainable Energy Sources and
Technologies.

CLINTON COUNTY
Clinton County Conservation District - $1,300 to provide equipment for
watershed education field trips for school students.

MERCER COUNTY
Mercer County Conservation District - $19,500 to develop a program
entitled "Agriculture Across the Curriculum," for 4th grade students. Ambrose School - $1,500 to purchase water monitoring kits and other
wetlands equipment. - $1,500 to fund a two-day teacher
workshop focusing on the impact of non-point source pollution.

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"Maintaining the ecological health of forests is a key factor in
sustaining the cultures, local communities and economies relying on this
resource," said Greg Taylor, Supply Chain Management executive .S.pdf

Rendell, Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A.

BRADFORD COUNTY
Bradford County Conservation District - $9,000 to develop comprehensive
environmental education plans targeted at school administrators,
educators and other agencies in the county .

CONTACT: Ana Gomez, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection,
+1-717-787 -1323.

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Industry leading initiative aims to reduce virgin fiber demand and protect
endangered forests

CHARLOTTE, N.

Rendell Administration Announces Environmental Education Grants Worth $369 686; Will Fund Programs to Increase Environmental Literacy for Youth and Adults

The conservation district also
provides environmental education resources to students , teachers and
residents.

Mt.

CAMBRIA COUNTY
Forest Hill School District - $1,000 to purchase materials for Acid Mine
Drainage and sewage water quality testing on local streams."

Stroud Water Research Center Inc.

COLUMBIA COUNTY
Columbia County Conservation District - $9,250 to develop and implement
environmental education programs for local leaders, municipalities,
contractors, developers, students, educators and landowners to address
non-point source pollution.

DAUPHIN COUNTY
Infinity Charter School - $888 to fund three field trips and one
in-school presentation for 6th and 7th grade classes .

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"We believe our paper reduction and recycling efforts are already best in
class , but we are eager to raise the bar," Taylor said."
Regarding forest practices, the bank will not align with suppliers engaged
in the conversion of high conservation value forests or natural forest
ecosystems to tree farms or plantations, on any scale, on lands that they own
or manage . Fortune 500 companies and 85 percent
of the Global Fortune 500.

Central Cambria School District - $1,500 to fund a field trip to two acid
mine drainage projects.

Lower Dauphin School District - $1,500 to purchase equipment to be used
in conjunction with the high school freshman science department annual
spring field study.

JEFFERSON COUNTY
Jefferson County Conservation District - $1,500 to fund testing and
resource materials to provide environmental education programs.

Westmoreland Conservation District - $1,500 to provide farmers with an
educational tour of Holterholm Farms.

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For more information on the bank's paper procurement policy, click on the
link below.com/newsroom/press/pdfs/Paper_Procurement_Policy .state.pa.

Pennsylvania Resources Council Inc.

BERKS COUNTY
Berks County Conservation District - $18,503 to provide funding and
resources for an Environmental Educator to develop environmental
education to the public school system.

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"
In addition to simply encouraging best practices that protect endangered
forests, the new policy has teeth and aligns with the bank's forest practices
lending policy, Taylor said. The bank has set
a goal that 90 percent of total paper purchases contain a minimum of 20
percent post-consumer recycled content by 2006.

McGinty made the announcement during a visit to the Berks County
Conservation District, which was awarded an $18,503 grant to develop
environmental education programming and resources for Berks County schools.

FULTON COUNTY
Fulton County Conservation District - $600 to develop and conduct
environmental education field days targeted at seventh graders.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Abington Friends School - $1,500 to expand the third grade Creek Walk
program and the study of watersheds.

NORTHUMBERLAND
Mount Carmel Area School District - $1,500 to develop lessons and labs in
an area that was once a productive coal mining region with regard to
water testing, acid mine drainage, mine reclamation, etc.

Mount Carmel Area School District - $1,485 to purchase a Davis Vantage
Pro 2 Watershed Station.

SULLIVAN COUNTY
Sullivan County Conservation District - $1,300 to purchase soils,
wildlife, forestry and aquatics kits for the Sullivan County Conservation
District to loan to other educators in the county.

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"These efforts will help protect forest ecosystems, conserve natural resources
and reduce pollution.
To protect endangered forests, Bank of America will require suppliers of
paper products to warrant that neither their products nor product inputs,
whether sourced from internal operations or third party suppliers, were
derived from the harvesting of primary tropical moist forests, or primary
forests in temperate or boreal forest regions that are not managed using
sustainable forestry practices as verified by an independent third party
audit.

About Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions ,
serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large
corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and
other financial and risk-management products and services. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is
listed on the New York Stock Exchange .com

* Serving more middle market banking clients than any other bank."

Ridley School District - $10,000 to help elementary staff revise current
lesson plans targeted toward K-5 teachers.

LAWRENCE COUNTY
Laurel School District - $10,000 to facilitate the integration of EE
standards into the K-12 curriculum.

LYCOMING COUNTY
Lycoming County Conservation District - $1,500 to develop environmental
education programs.

Green Woods Charter School - $10,000 to fund the purchase of environment
and ecology focused curriculum materials and resources to support quality
teaching and effecting student learning .

WESTMORELAND COUNTY
Westmoreland County Conservation District - $10,000 to create a credible
and comprehensive educational outreach program on sustainable energy
technologies in Hempfield Township.

Saint Vincent College - $1,500 to fund two one-day teacher workshops .

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bankofamerica. McGinty today
announced 72 grants totaling $369,686 to create and develop projects to help
increase environmental literacy among Pennsylvanians."
The grants were awarded to schools, universities, nonprofit organizations
and county conservation districts to create and develop projects that will
help increase environmental literacy among Pennsylvanians.

BUCKS COUNTY
Center for Student Learning - $1,500 to expand on a program started
through a partnership with Waste Management of Pennsylvania. - $1,200 to purchase two GPS PDAs for students and
teachers to use to make precise maps of their community.

MULTIPLE COUNTIES
Earth Force Inc .

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(2) Sustainable Forest Practices -- Ensure that source forests from which
virgin wood fiber is procured are managed using environmentally
preferable practices. Bank of America's new policy is a big step forward for
the financial services industry, and we hope other firms will follow its
lead. The company
provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving 33 million
consumer relationships with more than 5,800 retail banking offices, more than
16,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with more than 12 million active
users. Topics include watersheds , wetlands,
Pennsylvania's ecosystems, and renewable and nonrenewable resources. - $1,500 to fund a project entitled "Sustainable
Energy Sources and Technologies.

LUZERNE COUNTY
Bear Creek Nature Center of the Eastern PA Luther Camp Corporation -
$1,280 to fund two seminars entitled "Pennsylvania Songbirds," which
focuses on bird biology.

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The bank will require its suppliers to work with their third-party
suppliers of wood fiber to encourage and monitor compliance with conversion
requirements and promote retention of high conservation value forests and
natural forest ecosystems.

http://www. "These grants will help to
fund projects that will raise environmental awareness among the residents of
Pennsylvania by enabling all of us to better appreciate our environment and
work to preserve it.

Hazleton Area School District - $1,000 for middle students to cooperate
with local county officials to learn about acid mine drainage in the
Upper-Lackawanna watershed.

An ecosystem is a community of organisms and their physical environment interacting as an ecological unit.

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"
The new procurement policy, implemented on April 1, has three primary
goals:

(1) Source Reduction and Recycling -- Minimize the bank's consumption of
paper products containing virgin wood fiber, in order to reduce
demand on forests.

Blackhawk School District - $1,500 to purchase resources materials to
include alternative energy into the Agriscience Curriculum at Blackhawk
High School.

DELAWARE COUNTY
Haverford Township School District - $1,360 to fund a project entitled
"Role of Integrated Pest Management in Reducing Non-Point Source
Pollution.

Earth Force, Inc.

Millcreek Township School District - $10 ,000 to develop a hands-on
program to integrate education into the construction of the new, high
performance, energy efficient Asbury Woods Nature Center.

PHILADELPHIA COUNTY
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum - $1,300 to purchase
curriculum support materials for teachers involved in the Nature Learning
program.

This ODP category is for web sites related to particular ecosystems, such as forests, rain forests, tundra, prairies, and deserts.

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C. The projects range
from creative, hands-on lessons for students-to-teacher training programs to
ecological education for adults.
The grant program was established by the Environmental Education Act of
1993, which mandates setting aside 5 percent of the pollution fines and
penalties collected annually by DEP for environmental education in
Pennsylvania.
Since the inception of the environmental education grant program, DEP has
awarded more than $3 million in grants to support the environmental education
efforts of schools, county conservation districts and other nonprofit
organizations throughout Pennsylvania.

Pocono Environmental Education Center - $9,000 to provide and present the
"Sustainable Energy: Sources + Technologies' Professional Development
Institute " for the general public.

WAYNE COUNTY
Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation Inc.

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, Bank of America, the nation's
largest retail bank, and one of the world's largest consumers of paper
products , has devised a new paper procurement policy that reduces impacts on
the world's forest ecosystems and promotes sustainable forestry practices.

The bank developed the policy in partnership with a group of key
suppliers, such as International Paper, and environmental organizations such
as Metafore, a non-profit group that works to conserve, protect and restore
the world's forests , and the non-profit organization, Environmental Defense. Bank of America is the No.dep.

Pittsburgh Regional Center for Science Teachers - $10,000 to provide
workshops for participants to gain a better understanding of the impact
of air quality on the environment.

State College Area School District - $900 to support field trips for
10 kindergarten classrooms to receive programming at Millbrook Marsh
Nature Center through a half-day program entitled "Wetland Critters"
Radio Park.

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"Suppliers of paper products to the bank must
remain in compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing timber
harvesting and ensure their third party suppliers also comply with applicable
laws and regulations.
(3) Protection of Endangered Forests - - Require the bank's suppliers of
paper products to identify and appropriately manage endangered and
high conservation value forests.

The Oakland School, Inc.

FAYETTE COUNTY
Fayette County Conservation District - $20,000 to fund the annual Fayette
County Children's Water Festival.

PERRY COUNTY
West Perry School District - $1,500 to purchase resource materials to
enhance the Earth/Environmental Science curriculum.

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Central Cambria School District - $10,000 to continue integrating
environmental education by providing recycling education and energy
management.

CENTRE COUNTY
Centre County Conservation District - $6,000 to purchase water sampling
and testing equipment to be used by the students at Bald Eagle Area High
School to learn about non-point source pollutants.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg - $825 to fund a field trip to visit
the Holtwood Hydroelectric Power Plant.

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - $10 ,000 to offer a
five-day teacher workshop on the topic of the Delaware Estuary watershed.

Springside School - $1,500 to mentor students in 3rd and 4th grade in the
study of Spring Mill Creek.

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Lebanon School District - $10,000 to provide for all K-7
professional staff to be instructed in EE standards.

CHESTER COUNTY
Southeast Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center - $10,000 to fund a
program entitled "Minimizing the Risks from Environmental Toxins Through
Education at Day Care Centers in Philadelphia.

FRANKLIN COUNTY
Wilson College - $1,500 to fund two biodiesel workshops to science
teachers from regional schools.

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Bank of America Implements Paper Procurement Policy

"We applaud Bank of America's commitment to use less paper, buy post-
consumer recycled paper and promote sustainable forest management among its
paper suppliers," said Environmental Defense senior economist Robert Bonnie."
As part of the policy, the bank will continue its existing efforts to
reduce paper consumption, maximize recycled content where paper elimination is
not feasible, and recycle the paper it uses in internal operations and
receives from external sources.

ERIE COUNTY
Erie County Conservation District - $20,000 to develop a "Lake Erie
Environmental Education Compendium.

North Penn School District - $984 to support continuation of the business
and educational partnership with Waste Management for the science
curriculum for the 10th, 11th and 12th grade Biology, Chemistry and
Environmental Science courses.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Following is a list of grants awarded by county:

ALLEGHENY COUNTY
Allegheny County Conservation District - $19,145 to provide 20 two -
session watershed awareness programs.

Sewickley Civic Garden Council - $1,000 to update to DVD format the first
in a series of 10 slide presentations providing environment and ecology
instruction.

Ridgefield Elementary School - $1,000 to transport 50 second -grade
students to tour the Erie County Landfill and Presque Island State Park.

LEBANON COUNTY
Lebanon County Conservation District - $12,068 to fund teacher workshops
and to establish a foundation of environmental literacy in the teachers
and students who participate .

TIOGA COUNTY
Southern Tioga School District - $1,500 to purchase equipment to provide
students with equipment and transportation for field trips to tour
Phoenix Resource Landfill and the Rattler Mine Complex acid mine drainage
treatment site.

WARREN COUNTY
Warren County Conservation District - $10,993 to fund the continuation
and improvement of the current education programs. - $10,000 to provide teachers with training and support
on how to use urban tree cover and air quality issues to address academic
standards.

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Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania - $1,000 to provide for
environmental resource guides and native plants to teachers enrolled in
the Schoolground Habitat Enhancement and Restoration Symposium.

Riverview School District - $1,000 to fund a field trip to Audubon's
Beechwood Farms.

BEAVER COUNTY
Western Beaver School District - $10,000 to facilitate workshops to
integrate the EE curriculum.

CRAWFORD COUNTY
Conneaut School District - $1,500 to implement a program to study the
area watersheds for non-point pollution sources.

SCHUYLKILL COUNTY
St.

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bankofamerica.
For more information on environmental education, visit the department's
Web site at http://www.

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Edward G.us, Keyword: "DEP EE Grants.

Pittsburgh Zoo + PPG Aquarium - $10,000 to develop and offer a series of
teacher workshops to teach educators of middle school students how to
utilize the Zoo's "Windows to Conservation " interactive classroom."

CLEARFIELD COUNTY
Clearfield County Conservation District - $650 to promote the use of
No-Till Drill farming through the District's Great Plains Drill .

PIKE COUNTY
Pike County Conservation District - $1,500 to fund a series of workshops
for municipal officials focused on open space and conservation.

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