United States
                      Environmental
                      Protection Agency
                      Washington, D.C. 20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5101)
 EPA500-F-00-153
 May 2000
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
 <>EPA      Brownfields  Cleanup
                       Revolving  Loan   Fund   Pilot
                                                Township of Neville, PA
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
                      Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other stakeholders
in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and an active potential for
redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two
years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected by brownfields to facilitate cleanup
of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund
programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds to make loans for the environmental cleanup
of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states, tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful
information and strategies as  they continue to seek new methods to promote a unified approach to site assessment,
environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND

The Township of Neville is an island on the Ohio River
in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Neville was once
the leading producer of amphibious assault vehicles
used in World War II. With a shifting of the economy
and the country's defense needs, manufacturers have
left the island.  The shipyard closed almost 15 years
ago  and with other sites have  laid  vacant  or
underutilized.   Business closures have caused  a  40
percent decrease in the Township's tax  base,  from
approximately $3 0 million to $ 18 million. The median
household income in the Township ranks in the lower
half of Allegheny communities. The Township has
identified  approximately  30  brownfield  sites,
comprising roughly one-third of the Island's property.
Brownfields sites present development opportunities
due to the Island's proximity to downtown Pittsburgh
and the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.

BCRLF OBJECTIVES

Neville's BCRLF goals are to cleanup brownfields
sites, revitalize  the tax base, and provide  sustainable
wage employment with an emphasis on mixed zoning
re-use. The criteria to be used to select sites include the
ability to increase jobs and tax revenue, advance the
goals of the Township's new comprehensive plan,
PILOT SNAPSHOT
                     Date of Announcement:
                     May 2000

                     Amount: $500,000

                     BCRLF Target Area:
                     Township of Neville
Township of Neville, Pennsylvania
Contacts:

Township of Neville

(412)264-3442
Region 3 BCRLF
Coordinator
(215)814-3211
      Visit the EPA Region 3 Brownfields web site at:
     www.epa.gov/region03/waste/brown/index.htm

For further information, including specific Pilot contacts, additional
 Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and publications
     and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
          http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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provide  for public  health   through   cleanup  of
contamination, engage private owners, and develop a
model for  replication by  other small communities.
Initially, Neville's BCRLF will target three sites: a light
metals site; a shipyard site; and the Chevron site.

FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS

The Township of Neville will serve as lead agency. The
Township Engineer will serve as site manager. A fund
manager will be selected.

LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES

Neville will commit $15,000 to the BCRLF program.
The State of Pennsylvania and Allegheny County also
are in the process of committing funding in the amounts
of $55,000 and $45,000, respectively.  The State's
Industrial Sites Reuse Program will enable the Neville
Island Development Assosiation to acquire sites and
perform  cleanups  directly.    Neville   Township
anticipates that several private landowners also will use
the BCRLF loans and State funds to clean up their
brownfields properties.

Use of BCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of funding
also apply to BCRLF funds.
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot                                           Township of Neville, Pennsylvania
May 2000	EPA 500-F-00-153

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