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Brownfields 2006
Grant Fact Sheet
Central Vermont
Regional Planning
Commission
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders 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 Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission
(CVRPC) was selected to receive two brownfields
assessment grants. The CVRPC serves 23 municipali-
ties (total population 63,276) across Washington and
Orange Counties. While Central Vermont is mainly
rural, the state has a significant urban presence. In
addition to the capital, Montpelier, the communities of
Northfield and Waterbury were home to historic
woolen mill operations, and Barre City and Barre
Town are known for their once great granite industry.
Today, the economies of these towns and the entire
Assessment Grants
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Central Vermont Regional
Planning Commission for two brownfields
assessment grants. Hazardous substances grant
funds will be used to conduct community out-
reach, update the site inventory, perform five
Phase I and four Phase II environmental site
assessments, and complete four cleanup plans
across the 23 communities served by the Com-
mission. Petroleum grant funds will be used to
perform the same tasks at sites with potential
petroleum contamination. The Commission
intends to perform eight Phase I and six Phase II
environmental site assessments and complete four
cleanup plans for petroleum-contaminated sites.
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
617-918-1424
http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/
Grant Recipient: Central Vermont Regional
Planning Commission, VT
802-229-0389
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
region are based mainly on the service and public
administration industries. Abandoned sites, remnants of
the area's industrial history, litter the landscape of both
the urban and rural areas of the region, affecting its
major bodies of water, land, and people. The average
annual wage in the region is only 72 percent of other
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-06-027
May 2006
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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New England states. Assessment and eventual cleanup
of the region's brownfields sites will reduce uncertain-
ties about the potential health and environmental risks
associated with these properties. Returning these
properties to productive use as housing, greenspace.
and job-generating businesses will help strengthen
neighborhoods, contribute to the tax base, and support
the Commission's planning goals to reduce sprawl in
the region.
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