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Brownfields 2005
Grant Fact Sheet
New Hampshire
Department of
Environmental
Services
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 New Hampshire Department of Environmental
Services (NHDES), in partnership with the New
Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic
Development and the Southwest Regional Planning
Commission, was selected to receive a brownfields
revolving loan fund grant. New Hampshire's cities and
small towns grew around 19th Century textile and other
manufacturing mills, which drew their power from the
state's many rivers. With the decline of these indus-
Revolving Loan Fund (2005}
Grant
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$1,001,790 for petroleum
EPA has selected the New Hampshire Depart-
ment of Environmental Services for a brownfields
revolving loan fund grant. Coalition partners are
the New Hampshire Department of Resources
and Economic Development and the Southwest
Regional Planning Commission. The grant will be
used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from
which the New Hampshire Department of
Environmental Services will provide loans and
subgrants to support cleanup activities for sites
contaminated with petroleum. The fund will be
used to address brownfields sites throughout the
state's cities and small towns.
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 1 Brownfields Team
617-918-1221
http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/
Grant Recipient: New Hampshire Department of
Environmental Services
603-271-6422
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
tries, and later the decline of the light manufacturing
industries that replaced them, New Hampshire
(population 1,287,687) was left with a legacy of
abandoned and contaminated mill properties. As a
result, local jobs and property tax revenues were lost,
property values were depressed, and the abandoned
sites became hazardous, dangerous attractions. From
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-05-027
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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2000 to 2003, the state lost 26,000 jobs. The poverty
rates in the state's most rural counties range from 7.9
to ten percent. In the most depressed census tracts, the
rates range from 23 to 46 percent. The NHDES
estimates that there are 500 to 1,000 sites where the
presence of hazardous substances and/or petroleum is
serving as a barrier to redevelopment. The majority of
these sites are in or near town centers, where they
have the maximum adverse impact on the local
economy. Revitalization of these brownfields sites will
provide employment and renewed economic opportu-
nity to the state's most needy citizens.
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