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Brownfields 2005
Grant Fact Sheet
Soutf? Sf. Pau/
Housing and
Redevelopment
Authority, MN
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 South St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment
Authority was selected to receive two brownfields
assessment grants. Throughout the 1800s and 1900s,
South St. Paul developed independently from the
nearby major municipalities of St. Paul and Minneapolis
as a stockyard town along the Mississippi River.
Although technically a suburb of St. Paul, today South
St. Paul is an economically independent community
that has been engulfed by suburban sprawl. Histori-
cally, the South St. Paul Stockyards were among the
Assessment Grants
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the South St. Paul Housing and
Redevelopment Authority for two brownfields
assessment grants. Hazardous substances grant
funds will be used to conduct seven to ten Phase I
and two to four Phase II site assessments, and to
develop two to three cleanup plans. Petroleum
grant funds will be used to conduct seven to ten
Phase I and five to eight Phase II site assess-
ments, and to develop four to eight cleanup plans.
Funds also will be used to conduct community
outreach activities. Target areas are BridgePoint
Business Park, North Concord Corridor, Concord
Exchange, and other sites throughout the city.
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: South St. Paul Housing and
Redevelopment Authority, MN
651-451-1838
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
largest and most active livestock markets in the United
States. The city's dependence upon the stockyards,
however fruitful, was also detrimental. When the meat
packing industry restructured in the 1960s and 1970s
and the two major employers closed their facilities, the
city's economic base was decimated. In the 1970s,
7,000 jobs directly related to the packing plants were
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-05-192
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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lost. The city's poverty rate remains higher than its
neighbors. The primary location for brownfields
commercial and business redevelopment is the
BridgePoint Business Park, where all the properties
are either known or suspected to be contaminated
because of their past industrial uses. The city plans to
develop the target areas with new, mixed-use commer-
cial development and housing that will attract new
businesses, create jobs, and revitalize a diminished tax
base.
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