The EPA said Tuesday that adding the city of Spencer's Franklin Street Groundwater Contamination site to the federal agency's priority list signals its commitment to cleaning up that contamination.

Indianapolis, Jeffersonville and Richmond are each getting $300,000 to either assess and clean up contamination or redevelop cleaned-up sites.

The proposed revisions include allowing individual states to set their own standards for coal ash disposal.

The site on Indianapolis' southwest side was the location of a retail battery sales store from about 1962 until 2008.

Officials from the EPA and other federal agencies will join the city of East Chicago and its housing authority at the event.

Demolition began Monday afternoon on East Chicago's West Calumet Housing Complex, but the U.S.S. Lead Superfund site still leaves former residents concerned for their future.

Community leaders called on Indiana's Congressional representatives to oppose the cuts ahead of the approval deadline.

The public hearing was met with anger and skepticism from some residents who live on the site, as the response comes more than five years after the EPA identified the problem.

The complex was built on the site of a former lead smelter and two years ago the city and the East Chicago Housing Authority ordered that more than 1,000 residents be relocated.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management referred the Wheeler well field in Anderson to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for long-term cleanup funding.