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 Brownfields  2004

  Grant  Fact  Sheet

Anahola  Homesteaders

            Council,  HI


 EPA Brownfields Program

 EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
 nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
 to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up,
 and sustainably reuse brownfields. Abrownfield site is
 real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse
 of which may be complicated by the presence or
 potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant,
 or contaminant. On January 11, 2002, the President
 signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and
 Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields
 Law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible
 applicants through four competitive grant programs:
 assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup
 grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding
 support is provided to state and tribal response pro-
 grams through a separate mechanism.

 Community Description

 The Anahola Homesteaders Council was selected to
 receive a brownfields cleanup grant. Located about 22
 miles from Kauai's main city of Lihue, 72.5 percent of
 Anahola's 2,000 residents are Native Hawaiian. In
 contrast, 24.2 percent of the entire Island population of
 58,463 is Native Hawaiian. Approximately 10 percent
 of area residents are unemployed, and public assis-
 tance rates are over 20 percent. Twenty years ago, the
 town of Anahola was surrounded by sugar cane fields
 that provided employment for local residents and
 supported the local economy. The disappearance of
 sugar cane plantations left idle fields polluted with
 pesticides and herbicides, and the community that had
 worked those fields without the economic means to
   Cleanup Grant
  $196,334 for hazardous substances

  EPA has selected the Anahola Homesteaders
  Council for a brownfields cleanup grant. The
  grant will be used to clean up a 20-acre property
  that is contaminated with pesticides and herbi-
  cides containing high concentrations of arsenic
  and mercuric compounds. Like much of the
  agricultural land in Kauai County, the site was
  formerly used for sugar cane production. The
  grant will help pay for surface debris removal, soil
  excavation and replacement, and sampling. Once
  the site is cleaned up, the council hopes to rede-
  velop it into a multi-use town center, complete
  with a charter school and affordable housing for
  elderly residents.
   Contacts
  For further information, including specific grant
  contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
  news and events, and publications and links, visit
  the EPA Brownfields web site at: www.epa.gov/
  brownfields.

  EPA Region 9 Brownfields Team
  415-972-3188
  http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/

  Grant Recipient: Anahola Homesteaders Council, HI
  808-822-7045

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
clean up the contamination. This cleanup grant will
help transform a blighted area into a multi-use town
center that will provide Anahola with greater com-
mercial opportunity and a place to enhance cultural
awareness and education.
                                                  Solid Waste and
                                                  Emergency Response
                                                  (5105T)
                        EPA 560-F-04-021
                        June 2004
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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