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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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