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Brownfields Training,
Research, and Technical
Assistance Grant Fact Sheet
National Center for
Neighborhood and
Brownfields
Redevelopment
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
Established within the Edward J. Bloustein School of
Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, the
National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields
Redevelopment (NCNBR) actively engages in service,
research, and outreach for the promotion of neighbor-
hood and brownfields redevelopment. NCNBR helps
local, regional, state, and federal agencies and commu-
nity-based organizations working in urban neighbor-
hoods, to understand the inter-relationships between
brownfields and neighborhood redevelopment and to
promote urban revitalization opportunities. The Center
Technical Assistance
to Increase Capacity
of Local Community-Based
Organizations
Grantee:
National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields
Redevelopment
Project Focus:
Technical Assistance Program for Community-Based
Organizations to Build Local Capacity for Active
Participation in Brownfields Redevelopment
Project Period:
October 2005 to September 2008
Project Description:
NCNBR has developed a technical assistance program
to increase the capacity of local community-based
organizations working in distressed urban neighbor-
hoods to actively participate in addressing environ-
mental, economic, and community aspects of
brownfields redevelopment. The program is designed
to meet the needs of nonprofit community develop-
ment organizations to better understand the complexi-
ties of contaminated property, economic feasibility,
and financial requirements, as well as environmental
cleanup and redevelopment issues necessary to
meaningfully participate in brownfields redevelop-
ment.
Responding to needs and preferences identified in
their needs assessment survey, NCNBR developed a
program to be delivered in an on-site, hands-on
fashion with community organizations and consisting
of sessions devoted to the following brownfieIds-
related topics:
• Neighborhood Revitalization Planning and Vision-
ing
• Brownfields Identification and Preliminary Site
Assessment
• Phase II Assessment and Understanding Risks and
Reuse Implications
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-07-248
September 2007
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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has developed a variety of technical tools to build local
capacity for successful neighborhood revitalization
planning and implementation. NCNBRhas been
working on projects related to smart growth, sprawl
reduction, as well as brownfields reuse alternatives,
community health, neighborhood planning, environ-
mental and social impact analysis, green building,
geospatial modeling, and public perceptions.
• Neighborhood Marketing and Public Involvement
Strategies
• Financing and Insurance Issues
NCNBR pilot tested these topical modules in over a
dozen separate training sessions conducted since in
Fall 2006 with four different community development
organizations located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and Paterson, New Jersey. NCNBR will implement
the sessions with two additional community develop-
ment corporations in 2008, for a total of 25-30 assis-
tance sessions conducted during the project period.
The final product materials, including both content
and delivery methods, will be completed and ready for
replication and distribution by the Fall 2008 to other
university-based or regional organizations devoted to
supporting local community-based brownfields
redevelopment.
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 NCNBR's brownfields
technical assistance activities, visit http://
www.policy.rutgers.edu/brownfields/ or call Henry
Mayer, Executive Director, at 732.932.0387, ext. 653.
*The information on this fact sheet is subject to
change.
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