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Brownfields Training,
Research, and Technical
Assistance Grant Fact Sheet
Environmental Law
Institute
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders 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. EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through assistance agreements to provide training,
research, and technical assistance to facilitate
brownfields revitalization.
Organization Description
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) is a nonprofit
organization that provides information services,
publications, training courses, seminars, research
programs, technical assistance, and policy recommen-
dations to engage and empower environmental leaders
throughout the United States and around the world.
ELI's audience extends from environmental profes-
sionals in government, industry, public interest groups,
and academia to community-based organizations, with
a special focus on people of color and low-income
populations. ELI's Brownfields Center
(www.brownfieldscenter.org) brings together a wide
array of resources with the goal of increasing collabo-
ration to ensure tangible benefits to community health
and environment. The Brownfields Center provides
information on topics relating to brownfields cleanup
and redevelopment, helps community groups respond
Brownfields and
Public Health Initiative
Grantee:
Environmental Law Institute
Project Focus:
Training and Technical Assistance on Public Health
Project Period:
August 2003 to September 2007
Project Description:
ELI's Brownfields and Public Health Initiative
(BAPH) is a model that promotes community
sustainability and overcomes systemic challenges
through brownfields redevelopment. ELI developed
BAPH in 2002 and has built a strong foundation for
BAPH in Florida, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. In
Florida, ELI works with a diverse group of federal,
state, local, and city governments, community health
organizations, nonprofits, financial institutions, legal
experts, and engineering firms to bring the successful
approach to other Florida communities. In New
Bedford, Massachusetts, ELI has implemented BAPH
and helped expand the city's federally qualified health
center that serves disadvantaged people living near
brownfields. ELI anchored its New Jersey BAPH
efforts in Paterson and works closely with community
leaders across all sectors. ELI organized and facili-
tated multi-stakeholder dialogues; built the capacity of
the Paterson Environmental Revitalization Committee
(PERC) to address public health issues as part of
brownfields redevelopment; engaged the Paterson
Division of Health in brownfields redevelopment,
including its representation on the PERC; convened
with its partners a successful one-day workshop:
Revitalizing Paterson through Brownfields Redevel-
opment: How Paterson is Succeeding and You Can
Too!; and, produced a 170-page Tool Kit on
brownfields, public health, and community revitaliza-
tion.
to brownfields opportunities and challenges, conducts
research on the legal and policy issues associated with
brownfields, and convenes diverse stakeholders for
discussions on key issues in brownfields redevelop-
ment.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-07-240
September 2007
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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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: http://www.epa.gov/
brownfields or call 202.566.2777.
For further information about the ELI and its
brownfields activities, visit ELI's web site at: http://
www2.eli.org/index.cfm or contact Suzi Ruhl, J.D.,
M.P.H., Director, ELI's Public Health and Law
Program, at ruhl@eli.org.
*The information on this fact sheet is subject to
change.
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