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  Brownfields  2006

  Grant  Fact  Sheet

    Miles City Housing

        Authority,  MT


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 Miles City Housing Authority was selected to
receive a brownfields cleanup grant. Formed in 1978,
the Miles City Housing Authority works to provide
safe, decent, and affordable housing for families in
Miles City (population 8,500). The poverty rate in
Miles City is 15.1 percent, and the majority of jobs are
minimum-wage service-sector positions. The city's
overall housing market is 97.4 percent occupied, and
there has been no new apartment development in the
past 30 years. The Housing Authority intends to
convert two of the former buildings at the target site
into 21 affordable apartments for low-income families,
and to demolish a third building to create greenspace
for families living in the new apartments and sur-
 Cleanup Grant
 $200,000 for hazardous substances
 EPA has selected the Miles City Housing Author-
 ity for a brownfields cleanup grant. Hazardous
 substances grant funds will be used to clean up
 the Old Holy Rosary Hospital site at 310 North
 Jordan and the 2000 block of Clark Street. The
 site contains three buildings built before 1950
 that have been vacant for over a decade. Grant
 funds will be used to remove drums and waste
 materials from the former hospital buildings.
 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 8 Brownfields Team
 303-312-6757
 http://www. epa.gov/regionO 8/land_waste/bfhome/
 bfhome.html

 Grant Recipient: Miles City Housing Authority,
 MT
 406-234-3433

 The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
 yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
 in this fact sheet are subject to change.
rounding neighborhoods. Brownfields redevelopment
is expected to expand the tax base, increase property
values, create jobs, remove environmental and human
health threats, create greenspace, and provide much-
needed housing.
                                                 Solid Waste and
                                                 Emergency Response
                                                 (5105T)
                         EPA560-F-06-166
                         May 2006
                         www.epa.gov/brownfields

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