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 Brownfields  2003

 Grant  Fact  Sheet

        Greenville,  TX




EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
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 con-
taminant. 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 City of Greenville was selected to receive an
assessment grant. The city has targeted an industrial
corridor that historically has been used for plastics and
transformer manufacturing, oil refining, dry cleaning,
cotton gins, gas stations, and print shops. Deteriorating
buildings in the area have potential asbestos concerns
as well. Greenville's population is 24,000. Most of the
city's minority population lives in neighborhoods
adjacent to the  targeted area. Median family income is
nearly 40 percent below the city average in these
neighborhoods, which also have some of the highest
poverty rates in Hunt County. The assessment and
redevelopment of brownfields will augment city efforts
to reuse the targeted area and bring capital investment
                                  Assessment Grant
                                  $200,000 for hazardous substances
                                  $200,000 for petroleum

                                  EPA has selected the City of Greenville for
                                  brownfields assessment grants.  The city is
                                  focusing on an area containing over 600
                                  brownfields contaminated with petroleum and
                                  hazardous substances in the Old Town Greenville
                                  and Lee Street Corridor in downtown Greenville.
                                  Grant funds will be used to update an inventory of
                                  brownfields sites, involve the community in
                                  brownfields and future use decisions, and con-
                                  duct Phase I and Phase II environmental assess-
                                  ments of sites within this corridor.
                                  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 at: www.epa.gov/
                                  brownfields.

                                  EPA Region 6 Brownfields Team
                                  214-665-6735
                                  http://www.epa.gov/earthlr6/6sf/bfpages/
                                  sfbfhome.htm

                                  Grant Recipient: City of Greenville, TX
                                  903-457-3160

                                  Prior to receipt of these funds in fiscal year 2003, the City of
                                  Greenville has received brownfields funding for an assess-
                                  ment grant.

                                  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not yet been
                                  negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are
                                  subject to change.
                               and new jobs to the community. A Brownfield Advi-
                               sory Committee, with representatives from throughout
                               the community, will continue to help prioritize sites and
                               plan for reuses.
                                                  Solid Waste and
                                                  Emergency Response
                                                  (5105T)
                                                        EPA500-F-03-107
                                                        June 2003
                                                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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