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Grant Fact Sheet
Kitsap County, WA
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
Kitsap County was selected to receive a brownfields
assessment grant and a brownfields cleanup grant.
Kitsap County is the second most populous county in
Washington with 239,500 residents, and is six miles
from marine waters, which forces development along
sensitive marine and riparian shorelines. Historically,
the county's economic base has been the U.S. Navy.
In the past 15 years, the changing mission of the Navy
has resulted in the loss of over 10,000 jobs. The
county's population has more than doubled in the last
25 years. This rapid growth has out-paced land and
growth management programs, resulting in numerous
potentially contaminated sites being overlooked for the
sake of cheaper and easier development. There also
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected Kitsap County for a
brownfields assessment grant. Grant funds will be
used to inventory and prioritize sites with leaking
underground storage tanks, perform up to ten
Phase I site assessments and up to five Phase II
site assessments, conduct community outreach
activities, and develop redevelopment plans. The
county contains at least 79 leaking underground
storage tank sites, with the potential for more
unlisted sites.
Cleanup Grant
120051
$200,000 for hazardous substance's
EPA has selected Kitsap County for a
brownfields cleanup grant. Grant funds will be
used to clean up the Port Orchard Sand and
Gravel Concrete Batch Plant located on state
Route 3 in Gorst. The site operated as a concrete
processing and transfer facility for over 30 years
along an estuary shoreline, and over two acres
are contaminated with arsenic, pentachlorophenol,
and organic contaminants. Grant funds will be
used to support cleanup design and activities, and
conduct community outreach activities.
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 10 Brownfields Team
206-553-2100
http://www.epa.gov/rlOearth, click on
"Superfund", scroll down and click on
"Brownfields"
Grant Recipient: Kitsap County, WA
360-337-7181
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-05-161
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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are a number of abandoned commercial and industrial
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
properties scattered throughout the county, including at
least 79 leaking underground storage tank sites.
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
Redevelopment of these sites will improve the aes- Ms fact sheet ^ subJect to chan§e'
thetic and economic health of existing commercial
areas, reduce the need to expand developed areas, and
stimulate new businesses at target locations. The target
cleanup site is a concrete batch plant in Gorst, a small,
depressed rural community at the head of the Sinclair
Inlet. Today, the unemployment rate in Gorst is 33
percent, and more than 40 percent of families receive
some form of public assistance. Following the cleanup
of the target site, the county plans to restore the native
estuarine habitat and establish a portion of the Kitsap
County Mosquito Fleet Trail as part of a 130-acre
estuary-wide restoration program.
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