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Brownfields 2004
Grant Fact Sheet
Wisconsin
Department of Natural
Resources
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
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. On January 11, 2002, the President
signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields
Law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible
applicants through four competitive grant programs:
assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup
grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding
support is provided to state and tribal response pro-
grams through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was
selected to receive a brownfields revolving loan fund
grant. Wisconsin (population 5,363,676), a predomi-
nantly rural state, has only three cities where the
population exceeds 100,000. The state's population is
11.3 percent minority, and approximately 12.2 percent
of the state's families with children under five years of
age live in poverty. Over the last two decades of the
20th century, Wisconsin lost one-third of its wage and
salary worker base. Between 1993 to 2003, there were
Revolving Loan Fund
Grant
$3,000,000 for hazardous substances
$1,000,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources for a brownfields revolving
loan fund grant. The grant will be used to capital-
ize a revolving loan fund, from which the depart-
ment will provide loans and subgrants to communi-
ties and tribes within the state to support cleanup
activities for sites contaminated with hazardous
substances and petroleum. The grant will provide
funding for the cleanup of 12 to 20 brownfields
over the next two to five years.
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: www.epa.gov/
brownfields.
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-7576
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
Grant Recipient: Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources
608-267-6713
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
more than 1,200 significant plant closings in Wisconsin.
This industrial legacy left the state with PCB advisories
for 49 surface water bodies and a state-wide mercury
advisory. The revolving loan funds will be directed
toward greenspace projects and to jumpstart private
investment in economic development projects, espe-
cially in high unemployment areas and along the
waterfronts.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-04-224
June 2004
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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