Brownfields 1995 Assessment Pilot  Fact Sheet
               City of Evansville, Indiana
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 City of Evansville for a
Brownfields Assessment Pilot. Evansville (population
121,582) is located on the Ohio River in the tri-state area
of southwestern Indiana. The city has designated its
urban core, which consists primarily of Pig
                   Pilot Snapshot

                   Date of Announcement: 05/01/2002
                   Amount: $200,000
                   Profile: City of Evansville, Indiana. The Pilot will
                   target sites in Pigeon Township, the city's primary
                   manufacturing and industrial area, which has been
                   devastated by steady industrial closures and a
                   declining population.

                   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 5 Brownfields Team
                   (312)886-7576
                   EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
                   (http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields)

                   Grant Recipient: City of Evansville, Indiana
                   (812)436-7823
                                                  Objectives

                                                  Evansville's overall objective is to clean up
                                                  contaminated properties in Pigeon Township for
                                                  economic redevelopment. Pilot funds will help identify
                                                  brownfields sites in the target area and assess
                                                  environmental conditions at some of them. It also will
                                                  fund

                                                  Activities

                                                  Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

                                                       • Inventorying all potential brownfields sites in the
                                                        12 neighborhoods of Pigeon Township;
                                                       • Establishing a brownfields committee to work
                                                        with the public to develop priorities for selecting
                                                        target sites;
                                                       • Conducting approximately ten Phase I and six
                                                        Phase II environmental assessments;
                                                       • Developing an innovative and sustainable reuse
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                                                            plan; and
                                                           • Reaching out to involve the residents and
                                                            businesses in the target area.

                                                      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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