Brownfields 2000 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
EPA Brownfields Initiative
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.
Background
EPA has selected the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma for
a Brownfields Pilot. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
was also selected to receive additional funding for
assessment of properties to be used for greeenspace
purposes. The Cherokee Nation serves a population with
an average unemployment rate of 5.2 percent, with 20.2
percent of the population living below the poverty line.
The Pilot will focus on the Cherokee Nation Hog Farm,
the Cherokee Nation Landfill, and the Cherokee Nation
tribal lands in Kay County, Oklahoma.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/01/2000
Amount: $200,000
$50,000 for Greenspace
Profile: The Cherokee Nation will use Pilot funding
to focus on the redevelopment of three sites within
the tribal boundaries-the Cherokee Nation Hog Farm,
the Cherokee Nation Landfill, and the Cherokee
Nation tribal lands in Kay County, Oklahoma.
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 6 Brownfields Team
(214)665-6780
EPA Region 6 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region6/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Cherokee Nation,OK
(207) 667-2563
Objectives
The Pilot will use the funding to assist the Cherokee
Nation in establishing sustainable programs that would
assist rural communities in redeveloping sites that are
contaminated or perceived to be contaminated. The
funding will enable the Cherokee Nation to assess
redevelopment options for Indian lands.
The Pilot will use greenspace funding to conduct Phase
I and Phase II environmental assessments on the
Sequoyah landfill, an area adjacent to the Cherokee
Nation's Pow-Wow grounds. The site is being
redeveloped into a public park illustrating the life of the
Cherokee Nation.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
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• Conducting Phase I and Phase II environmental
assessments on the three targeted sites;
• Forming a Brownfields Advisory Committee
comprising tribal and community leaders, state
and federal officials, representatives of nonprofit
organizations, developers, and other interested
parties;
• Conducting economic redevelopment studies on
a site-specific basis to evaluate possible site
reuses;
• Identifying additional federal, state, and private
funding sources for redeveloping brownfields
sites; and
• Conducting Phase I and Phase II environmental
assessments on the site of a landfill that will be
redeveloped into a public park.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change.
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.
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