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Brownfields 2006
Grant Fact Sheet
Chittenden County
Regional Planning
Commission, VT
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 Chittenden County Regional Planning Commis-
sion (CCRPC) was selected to receive a brownfields
assessment grant. The CCRPC serves the 19 munici-
palities of Chittenden County (population 149,286),
the economic hub of the State of Vermont. Nearly 32
percent of all jobs in the state are in Chittenden
County. When major regional employers downsized
between 2000 and 2004, the county experienced a 24
percent decline in manufacturing jobs. This drop in
manufacturing activities led to an increase in the
number of brownfields in the county, especially in
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Chittenden County Regional
Planning Commission for a brownfields assess-
ment grant. Petroleum grant funds will be used to
organize the county's brownfields initiative,
conduct community outreach and educational
programs, identify sites, and perform up to six
Phase I and three to five Phase II environmental
site assessments throughout the municipalities of
Chittenden County.
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: Chittenden County Regional
Planning Commission, VT
802-846-4490, ext. 30
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
urban communities like Burlington, a federally desig-
nated Renewal Community. Prior to the decline in
manufacturing, in the 1980s and 1990s, the county was
pressured to convert open and agricultural lands to
residential development. Chittenden County has 103
sites on the state database of sites with spill notifica-
tions, of which 64 percent are petroleum sites. Known
brownfields in the county include former mills and
manufacturing facilities, junkyards, railyards, landfills,
marinas, and auto body shops. Assessment and eventual
cleanup of the brownfields properties will help remove
the hazards that threaten the public health and the
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-06-028
May 2006
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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environment and allow the sites to be redeveloped.
thereby reducing the pressures to develop greenfield
sites.
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