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Brownfields 2005
Grant Fact Sheet
Burlington, VT
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, President George
W. Bush 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. Addi-
tionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The City of Burlington was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. Burlington (population
39,815), one of the poorest cities in Vermont, is a
federally designated Renewal Community. Burlington
has historically been the region's commercial growth
center, relying on lumber processing, energy produc-
tion, manufacturing, milling, and other industrial activi-
ties. Today, there is widespread groundwater contami-
nation in the Old North End, Pine Street Corridor, the
waterfront, and other downtown areas that are the
locations of many of the city's brownfields sites.
Decades of disinvestment have contributed to the
economic and social conditions in these areas. Fifty-
seven percent of city residents have low or moderate
Assessment Grant (
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the City of Burlington for a
brownfields assessment grant. Grant funds will be
used to conduct Phase I and II environmental site
assessments at brownfields around the city,
concentrating on the Old North End, Pine Street
Corridor, the waterfront, and downtown neighbor-
hoods.
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 1 Brownfields Team
617-918-1221
http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/
Grant Recipient: City of Burlington, VT
802-865-7144
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
incomes. The median household income is 69 percent
of that of the state. Within the Old North End neighbor-
hoods, 60 percent of female-headed households live in
poverty. With a dwindling supply of developable land in
the city, infill and brownfields development is neces-
sary. Assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of these
sites will help boost the local and regional economies
and build on the city's track record of rehabilitating
commercial, residential, and greenspace on former
brownfields sites.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-05-028
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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