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Brownfields 2008
Grant Fact Sheet
Saint Paul Port
Authority, MN
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 this 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. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through
a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The Saint Paul Port Authority was selected to receive
two brownfields assessment grants and a brownfields
revolving loan fund grant. Located in eastern Minne-
sota, Saint Paul (population 287,151) has a population
and cultural base that has evolved during the past 35
years. After important industrial jobs left the city in the
1970s and 1980s, population and housing values
declined through 1990. Today, the city is a federally
designated Enterprise Community with an increasing
minority population, including Hmong, Hispanic, and
African-American residents. The city is focusing its
brownfields efforts on the Great Northern, Phalen,
Rice Street, and University-Midway Corridors. These
areas display great ethnic and cultural diversity, and are
among the most impoverished in the city. They for-
Assessment Grants
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Saint Paul Port Authority for
two brownfields assessment grants. Hazardous
substances grant funds will be used to perform
from two to three Phase I and Phase II environ-
mental site assessments in four corridor project
areas of the city. Petroleum grant funds will be
used to perform the same tasks at sites with
potential petroleum contamination.
Revolving Loan Fund
Grant
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$1,000,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the Saint Paul Port Authority for
a brownfields revolving loan fund grant. The grant
will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from
which the Saint Paul Port Authority will provide
loans and subgrants to support cleanup activities
for sites contaminated with hazardous substances.
Grant funds will be used to process and execute
loans in four corridor project areas of 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: Saint Paul Port Authority, MN
651-224-5686
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
accuracy of this information. The cooperative
agreement for the grant has not yet been negoti-
ated. Therefore, activities described in this fact
sheet are subject to change.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-08-125
April 2008
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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merly housed large industrial and commercial job
centers that have closed or downsized, and contain
some of the city's 1,000 acres of brownfields.
Brownfields assessments are expected to help the Port
Authority prioritize sites in these corridors, quantify the
extent and magnitude of contamination, and pave the
way to reducing blight. When brownfields are cleaned
up through the RLF grant, the Port Authority plans to
redevelop them for new business centers and light
manufacturing sites.
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