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Brownfields 2005
Grant Fact Sheet
Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality
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, 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 Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
(DEQ) was selected to receive a brownfields assess-
ment grant. The target areas are the rural or economi-
cally distressed areas of the state, where approxi-
mately 34 percent of the state's 3,541,500 residents
live. These target communities have high unemploy-
ment rates, and are challenged in their ability to
promote and achieve redevelopment and other revital-
ization projects. The stability of the communities is also
challenged by the migration of high school graduates to
other cities and states for jobs. Every community in
these areas has brownfields that adversely affect
them. These abandoned or underused properties are in
strategic locations or occupy the only land in the
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality (DEQ) for a brownfields
assessment grant. Grant funds will be used to
perform six environmental site assessments,
primarily in rural or economically distressed areas
of the state. Grant funds also will be used to
remove underground storage tanks, install ground-
water monitoring wells, and conduct community
outreach 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 10 Brownfields Team
206-553-2100
http://www.epa.gov/rlOearth, click on
"Superfund", scroll down and click on
"Brownfields"
Grant Recipient: Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality
541-278-4620
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
community zoned for industrial use. Brownfields
redevelopment will help remove the stigma of contami-
nation from these key properties, and thus, help the
affected communities attract development and bring
new jobs to the state's rural and distressed areas.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-05-213
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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