Brownfields  2003 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
               Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, North Central
               WA
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

The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
was selected to receive an assessment grant. The
2,100-square-mile reservation is one of the largest
reservations in the Pacific Northwest, and has been
designated as a Rural Enterprise Community.
Reservation residents are concerned about the
environmental problems associated with illegal
dumping, mining sites, and abandoned industrial
facilities.  The reservation is made up of small
communities with a total population of 7,587, of which
60 percent are American Indian. Residents suffer from
a 27 percent poverty rate and a 21 percent
unemployment rate. The assessment grant will allow
the tribes  to better document and prioritize brownfields
sites in need of cleanup. The grant also will allow
reservation residents recently trained in
environmentally related fields to employ their
education and skills in the workforce.
                   Assessment Grant

                   $200,000 for hazardous substances

                   EPA has selected the Confederated Tribes of the
                   Colville Reservation for a brownfields assessment
                   grant. The Colville Tribes will use grant funds to
                   conduct a reservation-wide inventory, develop a
                   quantitative site ranking system, and conduct
                   assessments on high-priority sites. The funds will
                   allow the tribes to create a centralized database of
                   historical environmental records, conduct
                   inspections of identified sites, and document this
                   information in a Geographic Information System
                   (GIS) database.

                   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: Confed. Tribes of Colville  Res.,WA
                   (509)634-4711

                   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)
EPA 500-F-03-075
        Jun 03

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