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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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