United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA500-F-99-077
May 1999
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
>>EPA Brownfields Cleanup
Revolving Loan Fund Pilot
City of Kern merer, WY
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5101)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans forthe environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states,
tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods
to promote a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND
Kemmerer, Wyoming, the county seat of Lincoln
County, is a rural community with approximately
3,300 residents. Lincoln County had an unemployment
rateof5.7percentinl998(comparedtoanationalrate
of 4.5 percent) and per capita income of only 70
percent of the national average. The lack of growth in
Kemmerer and Lincoln County over the last 15 years
has resulted in the accumulation of many vacant
properties. Since Kemmerer is such a small community,
it plans to coordinate its efforts with the City of
Evanston, Wyoming, also awarded a BCRLF pilot.
Both communities, although separated by 50 miles,
plan to use the same fund manager and cooperate
informally.
BCRLF OBJECTIVES
Kemmerer's BCRLFpilotwill furtherthe City's overall
brownfields objectives by encouraging the cleanup and
redevelopment of brownfields in the area. The pilot
anticipates that this activity will increase the tax base
through the revitalization of idle property, increase job
opportunities through the attraction ofbusiness/industry
to the brownfields properties, and act as a clearinghouse
for brownfields redevelopment information for other
rural communities. The primary focus of the BCRLF
PILOT SNAPSHOT
City of Kemmerer, Wyoming
Date of Announcement:
May 25,1999
Amount: $500,000
BCRLF Target Area:
Sites within the Kemmerer/
Diamondville community, as
well as Lincoln County
Contacts:
City Administrator
(307) 828-2350
Region 8 Brownfields
Coordinator
(303)312-6982
Visit the EPA Region 8 Brownfields web site at:
www.epa.gov/region08/cross/brown/brownf.html
For further information, including specific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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program will be in the Kemmerer/Diamondville
community. A secondary focus will be Lincoln County
as a whole.
FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS
The City of Kemmerer will serve as lead agency, with
the City Administrator as site manager. The City will
enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the
Lincoln-Uinta Revolving Loan Fund (LURLF) to
serve as fund manager. LURLF, which administers an
EDA revolving loan fund and a local revolving loan
fund, has structured a variety of loan agreements to
meet specific needs of borrowers. The pilot anticipates
that the first round of loans will clean up two or three
sites. In almost all cases, below market interest rates
will be charged, with a 5 percent rate expected to be the
norm. The planned payback period is three to five
years.
LEVERAGING
The City will work with LURLF, the Lincoln-Uinta
Association of Governments (LUAG), andthe Wyoming
Business Council to identify other programs that could
assist brownfieldsredevelopers. The City will provide
grant management services and LUAG will provide
promotional materials at no charge to the program.
Use ofBCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of funding
also apply to BCRLFfunds.
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot City of Kemmerer, Wyoming
May 1999 EPA 500-F-99-077
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