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Brownfields 2004
Grant Fact Sheet
New Albany, IN
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, the President
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. Additionally, funding
support is provided to state and tribal response pro-
grams through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The City of New Albany was selected to receive two
brownfields cleanup grants. New Albany (population
37,603) is located in Floyd County just across the Ohio
River from Louisville, Kentucky. The target area, the
Scribner Place Project, is in a blighted commercial
district of downtown New Albany, once the center of
the city's commercial activities. The commercial uses
of the six target parcels included machine shops, boiler
manufacturers, foundries, coal yards, and freight and
passenger train services. The combined population of
the four census tracts surrounding the project area is
8,973. The poverty rate in this community is 27.7
percent, nearly double the 14 percent rate of the city.
Almost 57 percent are considered low- to moderate-
income, and 22 percent are disabled. Development
Cleanup Grants
$382,765 for hazardous substances
$17,235 for petroleum
EPA has selected the City of New Albany to
receive two brownfields cleanup grants. Hazard-
ous substances funds will be used to clean up soils
contaminated with heavy metals and poly-aro-
matic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on six continguous
parcels comprising a portion of the Scribner Place
Project. Five of the parcels are located south of
Main Street between 1st Street and the alley
between Bank and East 3rd Streets, and the sixth
parcel is on West Main Street. Petroleum funds
will be used to clean up a portion of the Dierking
property on West Main Street, once occupied by
an abandoned tire and auto service business.
Grant funds also will be used to conduct commu-
nity 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 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-7576
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
Grant Recipient: New Albany, IN
812-948-5333
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, the activities
described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
plans for the Scribner Place Project include a YMCA,
anatatorium, a plaza, a 100-room hotel, and an 80-unit
condominium or apartment complex. This project also
includes a pedestrian plaza that will link East Main
Street to the Ohio River Greenway, connecting New
Albany with its neighbor.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-04-192
June 2004
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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