United States
                     Environmental
                     Protection Agency
                     Washington, D.C. 20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5105)
EPA500-F-01-239
April 2001
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
vvEPA    Brownfields  Cleanup
                     Revolving  Loan   Fund   Pilot
                                State of Nevada (Coalition with Department of
                              Environmental Protection and Mineral County)
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 $250,000 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 forfuture employment in the environmental field; and, brownfields cleanup revolving
loan fund (BCRLF) programs (each  funded up to  $1,000,000 over five years), to provide financial assistance 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

Economic decline in Nevada's northern and rural areas,
including Mineral County, is linked  to  military
downsizing,  decreased   mining  and  agriculture
operations, and reduced tourism (due to competition
with legalized gambling in other states). Diversification
of the local economy is necessary to prevent further
decline of the region's infrastructure.  The State is
addressing these issues, and has a strong brownfields
track record, including a voluntary cleanup program, an
existing  state-level brownfields coordinator,  and  an
EPA  Regional Targeted Brownfields  Assessment
(TEA) Project in Mineral County. The Nevada BCRLF
will be administered by a coalition of state and local
agencies to provide access to low interest rate loans for
brownfields redevelopment throughout  the State
(except for the Las Vegas BCRLF Project Area).
Special emphasis will be placed on Mineral County and
the Community of Hawthorne.

BCRLF OBJECTIVES

The BCRLF will provide incentives for the re-use of
brownfields sites  and will be a powerful tool for
municipalities  within Nevada to  strengthen  their
PILOT SNAPSHOT
                       Date of Announcement:
                       April 2001


                       Amount: $2.0 million

                       BCRLF Target Area:
                       Locations throughout the
                       State of Nevada
Coalition: The State of Nevada and Mineral County
Contacts:

  Nevada Department of
 Environmental Protection
  (775) 687-4670 x3024
 Region 9 Brownfields
     Coordinator
    (415)774-2237
      Visit the EPA Region 9 Brownfields web site at:
     www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/index.html

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:
	www.epa.gov/brownfields	

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local economies. By encouraging stakeholders to take
an active part in the redevelopment of idle properties
and by attracting new interests to local commerce and
tourism, the Nevada BCRLF can help to shape and
expand economic diversification.

Initially, the Nevada BCRLF will be utilized to forward
the economic revitalization goals of  Hawthorne's
Targeted Brownfields Assessment project, consisting of
240 acres of the community's former landfill.  This site
is located in an approved redevelopment area, a portion
of which is planned for an eighteen-hole regional golf
course with adjacent homes.

FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS

The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection
(NDEP), Bureau of Corrective Actions will serve as the
cooperative agreement recipient and lead agency. The
NDEP Superfund Supervisor and Brownfields Program
Manager will serve as the brownfields site manager.
The State plans to select an external organization as the
fund manager.
LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES

This pilot  will coordinate with existing funding
sources and financial incentives to maximize the
number  of projects  benefitting  from  Nevada's
BCRLF. The NDEP commitment includes in-kind
contributions in excess of $200,000, specifically
utilizing   the   Department's   highly   trained
Remediation Project Managers to complement the
Superfund/Brownfields staff in lead agency and site
manager activities. In addition, the Community of
Hawthorne staff will contribute upwards of $ 175,000
in in-kind services by providing  staff resources to
assist potential borrowers. Developers may also take
advantage of a relatively new Nevada law, wherein
a water quality remediation district is created, and
the costs of cleanup are divided  among properties
within the remediation district.

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
April 2001	
                  State of Nevada with Mineral County, NV
                                 EPA 500-F-01-239

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