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     Brownfields  Training,

   Research,  and Technical

Assistance Grant Fact Sheet


   Northern Kentucky


  University's Institute

 for Public Leadership

    and Public Affairs



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

Northern Kentucky University (NKU) is located in
Highland Heights, Kentucky, seven miles south of
Cincinnati, Ohio. As part of its Brownfields grant,
NKU and its Institute for Public Leadership and Public
Affairs have produced a series of reports updating
Brownfields Insurance Products availability and
efforts by different states to promote brownfield
insurance programs.
                 Accelerating
                 Brownfields  Cleanup
                 and Redevelopment  with
                 Innovative Uses of
                 Environmental Insurance
                Grantee:

                Northern Kentucky University's Institute for Public
                Leadership and Public Affairs

                Project Focus:

                Research and Technical Assistance Grant on Environ-
                mental Insurance

                Project Period:

                October 2003 to September 2008

                Project Description:

                NKU has launched www.brownfieldsinsurance.org, a
                web site mat provides access to brownfield insurance
                specialists and offers a library that includes its prior
                project reports, journal articles, and case studies of
                insurance usage, as well as a glossary of terms. It is
                engaged in the study of, and technical assistance to,
                risk management and insurance use in area-wide
                brownfield redevelopment efforts that will result in a
                report on the role played by insurance. NKU will be
                issuing an updated report on state-level insurance
                programs while providing technical assistance to state
                personnel.
                 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.

                To learn more about the NKU reports on insurance
                and brownfields redevelopment, visit http://
                www.brownfieldsinsurance.org.

                *The information on this fact sheet is subject to
                change.
                                             Solid Waste and
                                             Emergency Response
                                             (5105T)
                                       EPA 560-F-07-246
                                       September 2007
                                       www.epa.gov/brownfields

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