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  Brownfields 2005
  Grant Fact Sheet
           Atlanta,  GA
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 Atlanta was selected to receive two
brownfields assessment grants. Atlanta is a federally
designated Renewal Community (RC) with a population
of 434,000, and one of the fastest-growing metropolitan
areas in the United States. It is estimated that by 2030,
metropolitan Atlanta's population will grow by 2.3 million
people. Atlanta also has over 950 brownfields sites within
its boundaries, and will focus on three areas for assess-
ment: the RC and Belt Line Project areas, and neighbor-
hoods that have developed master plans. The RC area is
a distressed community with a poverty rate of almost 38
percent and an unemployment rate of over 14 percent.
Eighty-nine percent of residents in the RC are African-
American. The Belt Line is a 22-mile greenway circling
downtown and midtown Atlanta. The Belt Line Project
   Assessment Grants
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   $200,000 for hazardous substances
   $200,000 for petroleum

   EPA has selected the City of Atlanta for two
   brownfields assessment grants. Hazardous
   substances grant funds will be used to create a
   master plan for brownfields assessment, conduct
   community outreach, perform Phase I and II site
   assessments, develop cleanup plans, and link all
   information into a geographic information system
   database for sites in three areas of Atlanta where
   redevelopment may have the greatest chance of
   success. Petroleum funds will be used to perform
   these tasks for properties suspected of having, or
   with confirmed, leaking underground storage
   tanks.
   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 4 Brownfields Team
  404-562-8684
  http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/bf/index.htm

  Grant Recipient: City of Atlanta, GA
  404-330-6724

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
will allow for the use of existing railroad rights-of-way to
connect over 40 economically, racially, and culturally
diverse neighborhoods and the downtown district. The
project will generate new commercial and mixed-use
residential housing to help accommodate growth in the
city, and create new greenspace. Redevelopment of
brownfields throughout the city will help increase the tax
base, create thousands of new jobs, bring new housing to
the city, and stimulate public and private investment.
                                                   Solid Waste and
                                                   Emergency Response
                                                   (5105T)
                         EPA 560-F-05-084
                         May 2005
                         www.epa.gov/brownfields

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