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  Brownfields 2007

  Grant Fact Sheet

    Southern  Windsor

      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 Southern Windsor County Regional Planning
Commission was selected to receive a brownfields
assessment grant. Located in southeastern Vermont, the
Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commis-
sion serves ten small towns (population 25,105) in
Windsor County. Southern Windsor County was the
birthplace of the machine tool industry in the United
States. By 1900, hundreds of thousands of square feet
of factory space were devoted to machine tool manu-
 Assessment Grant
 $100,000 for petroleum

 EPA has selected the Southern Windsor County
 Regional Planning Commission for a brownfields
 assessment grant. Petroleum grant funds will be
 used for community outreach, site identification
 and prioritization, and three Phase I and two
 Phase II environmental site assessments.
 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: Southern Windsor County
 Regional Planning Commission, VT
 802-674-9201

 The information presented in this fact sheet comes
 from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
 accuracy of this information. The cooperative
 agreement for the grant has not yet been negoti-
 ated. Therefore, activities described in this fact
 sheet are subject to change.
facturing, with subsequent surges in capacity to support
war efforts. By the 1980s, the county's economic
fortunes began to change. Between 1980 and 2000, the
county lost about 43 percent of its manufacturing jobs.
Many large manufacturing plants, totaling nearly a
million square feet of floor space, were closed. A decline
in population, wages, and employment has followed.
Many of these now vacant or underused industrial
properties are located in town centers and along the
Black and Connecticut Rivers. Redevelopment momen-
tum is growing in southern Windsor County, and many of
these properties provide excellent opportunities for
mixed-use development with river frontage.
                                                Solid Waste and
                                                Emergency Response
                                                (5105T)
                        EPA560-F-07-161
                        May 2007
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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