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97 local emergency response agencies in 26 states received awards from the announced funding.
Available evidence partially supports the claim, but key primary data needed to independently verify the exact counts are not accessible in a machine-readable way.
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s press materials (as mirrored on PublicNow) state that “the funding announced today was awarded to 97 local emergency response agencies in 26 states,” but this is effectively a republication of the same Interior press release and not an independent corroborating source. A linked Interior web page titled “Slip-on Tank Grant recipients” for FY 2026 appears intended to list all awardees, but the underlying list of entities is not visible in the retrieved HTML and seems to be populated dynamically, preventing independent counting of agencies and states with the tools available.
Because the exact number of agencies and states cannot be independently confirmed from accessible primary data (beyond restatements of the same press release), the claim’s accuracy cannot be definitively verified at this time. The verdict is Unclear because corroborating primary evidence (the full recipient list or dataset) is not accessible in a form that allows independent confirmation of the stated totals.