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  Brownfields  2006

  Grant  Fact  Sheet

    City and County of

          Honolulu,  HI


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 City and County of Honolulu was selected to
receive two brownfields assessment grants. Honolulu
County (population 876,156) is located in the Hawai-
ian Islands on the island of Oahu. Oahu has numerous
brownfields because of its agricultural, industrial, and
military history. Honolulu was dominated by the
agricultural industry in the 1880s. By the early 1990s,
the pineapple plantations and sugar mills were in
decline, and tourism became the city's and county's
major industry. The decline in agriculture has left
many of the smaller communities on the island with
brownfields and pockets of poverty. Some of these
communities have unemployment rates as high as 20.5
percent. There is  limited land for development in the
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  Assessment Grants
  $200,000 for hazardous substances
  $200,000 for petroleum

  EPA has selected the City and County of Hono-
  lulu for two brownfields assessment grants.
  Hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
  will be used to conduct community outreach,
  inventory and prioritize sites, perform two to
  three Phase I and Phase II environmental site
  assessments,  and develop cleanup and redevelop-
  ment plans.
  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
  415-972-3092
  http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/
  index.html

  Grant Recipient: City and County of Honolulu, HI
  808-527-5860

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
city, and 9.5 percent of residents live below the poverty
level. Brownfields redevelopment will help attract new
jobs, provide affordable housing, provide land for
business incubators and public facilities, and create
greenspace.
                                                Solid Waste and
                                                Emergency Response
                                                (5105T)
                         EPA560-F-06-191
                         May 2006
                         www.epa.gov/brownfields

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