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               Brownfields 2004 Cleanup Grant Fact Sheet
EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states.
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield 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. Additionally, funding
support is provided to state and tribal response
programs through a separate mechanism.

Community Description

King County (population 1,779,300) was selected to
receive a brownfields cleanup grant. Harborview
Hospital is located in a federally designated Enterprise
Community in the city of Seattle. While the hospital
serves the entire city  of 563,374, the neighborhood's
immediate population of 6,025 is significantly more
impoverished (30.5 percent of families with children,
compared to Seattle's 11.1 percent). Nearly 70 percent
of Harborview patients are covered by Medicaid or
other government programs, or are uninsured. These
and other needy populations will be served by the
clinics and other facilities to be housed in the facility.
At the request of the surrounding community, the new
building that will be built on the site after cleanup will
have 2,000 square feet of retail space  and will create
220 temporary construction jobs and 40 permanent
retail jobs.
                                                  Cleanup Grant

                                                  $200,000 for hazardous substances

                                                  EPA has selected King County for a brownfields
                                                  cleanup grant. Hazardous substances grant funds will
                                                  be used to excavate and dispose of contaminated soil
                                                  discovered on the site of the expansion for
                                                  Harborview Medical Center. The soil is
                                                  contaminated with chlorinated organic compounds,
                                                  believed to have originated from historic
                                                  dry-cleaning operations. Removal of the
                                                  contaminated soil will prevent migration of
                                                  tetrachloroethylene to the air and groundwater,
                                                  protecting human health and the environment. The
                                                  cleaned up site will be used for a new hospital
                                                  building that will be owned by the county and
                                                  operated by the University of Washington.

                                                  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
                                                  (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).

                                                  EPA Region 10 Brownfields Team
                                                  (206)553-7299
                                                  EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
                                                  (http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/
                                                  sites/bf)

                                                  Grant Recipient: King County Department of
                                                  Natural Resources and Parks,WA
                                                  (206) 296-8476

                                                  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 negotiated.
                                                  Therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are
                                                  subject to change.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
                                Solid Waste
                                and Emergency
                                Response (5105T)
                                                                         EPA560-F-04-139
                                                                                  Jun 04

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