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Brownfields 2005
Grant Fact Sheet
Sacramento County, CA
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 Sacramento County Business Environmental
Resource Center was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. Within Sacramento
(population 1,200,000), there are seven target areas
that contain a number of vacant and underutilized
commercial and industrial properties. These communi-
ties are also challenged by declining housing stocks,
poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, and crime.
When the McClellan Air Force Base closed, a large
percentage of area residents lost their jobs. Other
neighborhoods have seen a decline since the comple-
tion of Highway 99, which drew traffic away from the
area. These racially diverse neighborhoods have lower
median household incomes and higher poverty levels
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Sacramento County Busi-
ness Environmental Resource Center for a
brownfields assessment grant. Grant funds will be
used to inventory petroleum brownfields, conduct
community outreach workshops for owners of
petroleum brownfields sites, and complete up to
20 Phase I and five Phase II 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 9 Brownfields Team
415-972-3188
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/
index.html
Grant Recipient: Sacramento County Business
Environmental Resource Center, CA
916-364-4110
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
than the county as a whole. They are suspected to
contain numerous brownfields, including former auto
repair shops, transportation operations, storage yards,
gas stations, and shopping centers with dry cleaners.
Brownfields assessment will stimulate redevelopment
of smaller, privately owned parcels through an outreach
effort providing one-on-one consultation. This redevel-
opment will increase property values and help bring
economic revitalization to target neighborhoods.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-05-144
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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