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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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