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Brownfields Training, Research,
and Technical Assistance
Grant Fact Sheet
Pacific Studies
Center/Center for Public
Environmental Oversight
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. EPA
funds eligible applicants through assistance agreements to
provide training, research, and technical assistance to
facilitate brownfields revitalization.
Organization Description
The Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO)
is a project of the nonprofit Pacific Studies Center. CPEO
facilitates public participation in the oversight of
environmental activities at contaminated sites, including
brownfields. It educates public stakeholders on the
process and technologies for cleanup and environmental
protection. CPEO's brownfields assistance projects
provide technical assistance and training to environmental
justice and other communities where brownfields
activities are planned or underway. Lessons learned are
communicated to the full range of brownfields
stakeholders. This work is based upon the premise that
communities where brownfields are located can play a
constructive role in brownfields revitalization if they
organize. CPEO conducts site visits, convenes workshops
and forums, publishes articles, and maintains a web-based
technology tree.
Project Description
CPEO will create a new program that will emphasize
community-to-community sharing of experience in four
overlapping subject areas: 1) siting of schools and other
youth facilities on previously contaminated properties; 2)
Community-to-Communit
Grantee:
Pacific Studies Center/Center for Public Environmental
Oversight
Project Focus:
Providing Technical Assistance to Communities on
Brownfields Issues, Including School Siting, Vapor
Intrusion, Sustainable Development, and Community
Benefits
Project Period:
October 2008 to September 2013
Estimated Annual Funding Amount:
$150,000
For further information about the Center for Public
Environmental Oversight and its brownfields technical
assistance activities, visit http://www.cpeo.org/. For more
information about this project, call 650-961-8918.
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.
* The information presented in this fact sheet comes from
the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of
this information. The implementation plan for the grant
has not yet been finalized. Therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
long-term management of vapor intrusion; 3) sustainable
development of brownfields; and 4) negotiation of
community benefits agreements for brownfields
redevelopment projects. These four subject areas have
been identified by communities as priority areas during
previous CPEO activities. CPEO will work directly with
communities affected by brownfields, and with state and
local governments, professional associations, and others
to develop a stakeholders' guide to energy efficiency in
brownfields redevelopment. CPEO's focus on community
empowerment will emphasize work in de-industrialized
communities and communities with a large proportion of
minority or low-income residents. CPEO will sponsor
peer-to-peer site visits, prepare reports of community
successes, and disseminate educational materials.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-08-284
September 2008
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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