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Brownfields Training,
Research, and Technical
Assistance Grant Fact Sheet
Northeast-Midwest
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. A brownfield 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
NEMW is a Washington-based, private, non-profit,
and non-partisan research organization dedicated to
economic vitality, environmental quality, and regional
equity for Northeast and Midwest states. Formed in
the mid-1970's, it fulfills its mission by conducting
research and analysis, developing and advancing
innovative policy, providing evaluation of key federal
programs, disseminating information, and highlighting
sound economic and environmental technologies and
practices. NEMW is unique among policy centers
because of its ties to Congress through the NEMW
Congressional and Senate Coalitions. The bipartisan
coalitions advance federal policies that enhance the
region's economy and environment.
NEMW has been at the forefront of brownfield policy
development and information dissemination since the
early 1990s, when NEMW organized the first
Financing
Brownfields Cleanup
and Redevelopment
Grantee:
Northeast-Midwest Institute
Project Focus:
Training, Research, and Technical Assistance for
Brownfields Financing
Project Period:
October 2003 to September 2008
Project Description:
NEMW provides information and analytic services
to Congress through Capital Ffill briefings, and by
providing information to Congressional staff.
NEMW plans to complete brownfields policy
analysis studies including: Using Tax Increment
Financing for Brownfields Redevelopment, An
Assessment of the Impacts of the Cooper v. Aviall
Decision on Brownfields Redevelopment, Creating
a Brownfields War Chest - State Environmental
Bond Issues with Brownfields Funding, Addressing
Toxic Tort through Liability Reforms and Subsi-
dized Environmental insurance, and the Environ-
mental and Economic Impacts of Brownfields
Redevelopment.
They will continue their stakeholder outreach and
education efforts by overseeing conferences and
workshops in EPA Regions 5 and 7, which include:
Nuts and Bolts of Brownfields Redevelopment,
Summit on the Sustainable Redevelopment of
Contaminated Properties, Sustainable Engineering,
and Market Barriers to Sustainable Redevelopment
of Brownfields. In addition, NEMW makes presen-
tations on brownfields related topics, maintains its
website, and assists communities with information
and expertise in areas of best practices and funding
opportunities.
brownfields conference in Chicago in 1991 and pub-
lished the landmark New Life for Old Buildings.
Regional and national interest in the implications of
brownfields for urban redevelopment and environmen-
tal cleanup led NEMW to launch an ongoing research
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-07-236
September 2007
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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program to identify the impacts of federal and state
policies and programs on community revitalization
efforts and suggest opportunities for improvement.
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 NEMW brownfields
research visit their website at: http://www.nemw.org/
and http://www.nemw.org/brownfields .htm.
*The information on this fact sheet is subject to
change.
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