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Brownfields
Assistance Grant
Fact Sheet
Midwest Assistance
Program, Inc.
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, tribes,
communities, 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.
Under §8001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, EPA is
authorized to provide financial assistance to increase
the capacity of tribal governments to establish, man-
age, and administer Tribal Response Programs.
Generally, Tribal Response Programs address
brownfields on tribal lands, minimize the actual and
perceived health risks associated with contamination
from brownfield properties, and strengthen partner-
ships between tribal entities, governmental, and non-
governmental organizations engaged in brownfields
redevelopment.
Organization Description
Midwest Assistance Program, Inc., (MAP) is a non-
profit organization that is dedicated to helping airal
communities and tribal nations find solutions to their
infrastructure and development needs through infor-
mation, resource management, expertise, and technical
assistance since 1979. MAP is a member of the
nationwide Rural Community Assistance Partnership
(RCAP) network. RCAP works to revitalize commu-
nities through its six regional partners in all 50 states,
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Support for Tribal
Response Programs
Focused on Brownfields
Redevelopment
Grantee:
Midwest Assistance Program, Inc.
Project Focus:
Outreach, Training, Research, and Technical Assis-
tance to Tribal Governments
Project Period:
June 2007 to October 2010
Project Description:
MAP will develop a train-the-trainer program, includ-
ing development and inclusion of a hard copy hand-
book and CD ROM for tribal governments. The train-
the-trainer program is intended to train tribal represen-
tatives on how to effectively develop, manage, and
administer a tribal response program, and in doing so,
equip tribal environmental managers with the skills
and guidance needed to train other environmental staff
in their respective communities.
In developing the train-the-trainer program, MAP will
conduct a needs assessment of a select number of
tribal response programs, conduct pilot training
workshops based on findings identified in the needs
assessment, develop a handbook and training materi-
als for tribes interested in developing a tribal response
program, deliver refined and finalized train-the-trainer
courses to tribal representatives, disseminate materials
developed through the project, and create a nationally
replicable model identifying various components of
successful tribal-response programs intended to assist
tribal governments to focus on brownfields assess-
ment, cleanup, and redevelopment activities in Indian
Country.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-07-250
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 MAP and its
brownfields activities, visit www.map-inc.org or call
952.758.4334.
*The information on this fact sheet is subject to
change.
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