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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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