\    Brownfields 2009 Assessment and Cleanup
               Grant Fact  Sheet
               Greenville, SC
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. In
2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help
states and communities around the country cleanup and
revitalize brownfields sites. Under this 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 City of Greenville was selected to receive two
brownfields assessment grants and a brownfields
cleanup grant. Located in northwestern South Carolina,
Greenville (population 56,002) is targeting the West
Greenfield/Reedy River Corridor, which grew in the
1850s with the establishment of Furman University and
the arrival of the Greenville-Columbia Railroad. Cotton
and fertilizer manufacturing and other commercial
operations followed shortly thereafter. By the mid-20th
century, the decline in the textile industry had left the
area with abandoned and underused manufacturing
buildings, textile facilities, and service stations. There
are more than 50 brownfield sites in the area. About 34
percent of area residents live below the poverty level,
and the unemployment rate is 21 percent. Eighty-four
percent of residents are African-American. Brownfield
assessments will reduce the environmental uncertainty
associated with properties and catalyze cleanup.
Cleanup of the target site will improve health
conditions for area residents and remove an
impediment to the city's revitalization vision for the
corridor, which includes redevelopment already
underway for an elementary school and community
center.
                   Assessment Grants

                   $200,000 for hazardous substances
                   $200,000 for petroleum

                   EPA has selected the City of Greenville for two
                   brownfields assessment grants. Community-wide
                   hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
                   conduct seven Phase I and four Phase II
                   environmental site assessments on properties
                   throughout the West Greenville/Reedy River
                   Corridor. Grant funds also will be used to conduct
                   cleanup planning and support community outreach
                   activities. Petroleum grant funds will be used to
                   perform the  same tasks at sites with potential
                   petroleum contamination.

                   Cleanup Grant

                   $200,000 for hazardous substances

                   EPA has selected the City of Greenville for a
                   brownfields cleanup grant. Hazardous substances
                   grant funds will be used to clean up the Smart
                   property at 331  South Hudson Street. The site
                   operated as a cotton warehouse from at least 1928
                   until 1973. Since then, it has been used for other
                   commercial  activities, including weaving and
                   warehousing automotive textiles.  It is contaminated
                   with metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
                   Grant funds  also will be used to support community
                   outreach activities.

                   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 4 Brownfields Team
                   (404) 562-8792
                   EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web  site
                   (http: //www. epa.gov/region4/waste/bf)

                   Grant Recipient: City of Greenville, South Carolina
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-09-122
        May 09

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                                                        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-09-122
         May 09

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