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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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