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Brownfields 2005
Grant Fact Sheet
Kitsap County
Consolidated Housing
Authority, 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
The Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority
was selected to receive a brownfields cleanup grant.
The target area is the City of Bremerton, with a
population of approximately 38,000. Indicators of
economic distress in this area include rising unemploy-
ment, poverty levels greater than 35 percent, neighbor-
hood blight, and joblessness. Once a thriving Navy and
port city, Bremerton has been in a steady economic
decline and decay for the past 30 years. Poverty levels
in parts of Bremerton are as high as 56.3 percent, the
highest in all of Kitsap County, and the percentage of
minorities in this area is more than twice the county's
Cleanup Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Kitsap County Consolidated
Housing Authority for a brownfields cleanup
grant. Grant funds will be used to clean up the
0.31-acre former Puget Laundry and Dry cleaners
located at 816 7th Street. The site was used as a
dry cleaning facility from 1923 until 1972. Site
soils are contaminated with petroleum hydrocar-
bons. Grant funds also will be used to support
community involvement 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 Consolidated
Housing Authority, WA
360-535-6138
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
average. The target site has had a negative impact on
the community and been a deterrent to the establish-
ment of businesses and residential development. The
Housing Authority plans to pursue brownfield projects
that will improve this low-income community, construct
affordable housing, and provide availability, proximity,
and accessibility of essential community services to
city residents. Brownfields cleanup will reduce risks to
public health, improve water quality, and recycle
abandoned, idle industrial land.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-05-216
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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