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  Brownfields  2008

  Grant  Fact  Sheet

      Spartanburg,  SC


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 City of Spartanburg was selected to receive two
brownfields assessment grants. Located in upstate
South Carolina, Spartanburg (population 38,561) is a
historic transportation hub that has experienced an 11.5
percent decline in population since 1990. The city
attributes much of this loss to the decline of older city
neighborhoods and the inhibiting effect vacant and
underused brownfields are having on economic growth
and development. Today, the city's unemployment rate
is 12.8 percent, compared to 5.9 percent statewide.
Almost half of Spartanburg's population is African-
American. The city has recently developed a Down-
town Master Plan that seeks to ensure that new
development creates a vibrant and economically
sustainable city center. Assessments conducted
 Assessment Grants
 $200,000 for hazardous substances
 $200,000 for petroleum

 EPA has selected the City of Spartanburg for two
 brownfields assessment grants. Hazardous sub-
 stances grant funds will be used to conduct a
 brownfields inventory and perform about six Phase
 I and three Phase II environmental site assess-
 ments. Petroleum grant funds will be used to
 conduct a brownfields inventory of sites with
 potential petroleum contamination and perform
 about eight Phase I and four to six Phase II
 environmental site assessments. Grant funds also
 will be used to support community outreach
 activities.
 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 4 Brownfields Team
 404-562-8792
 http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/bf

 Grant Recipient: City of Spartanburg, SC
 864-596-2972

 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.
through these grants are expected to leverage interest
from the private sector to clean up these properties
and put them back into productive reuse.
                                                  Solid Waste and
                                                  Emergency Response
                                                  (5105T)
                        EPA 560-F-08-088
                        April 2008
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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