The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the Hugo Wall School to serve as the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) for EPA Region 7, which includes Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. The Environmental Finance Center’s mission is to assist state and local governments to create environmentally and financially sustainable solutions to answer the “how to pay questions” associated with EPA mandates. The school competed for this designation as part of a national grant award process and represents the only newly created EFC in the nation. Awards are for six years with up to $2.4 million in funding available. For fiscal year 2010, the school anticipates $190,000 in funding.