Brownfields 2009  Cleanup Grant Fact
Sheet
Bremerton, WA
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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. On
February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed
into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Recovery Act is an unprecedented effort to
jumpstart our economy, and create or save millions of
jobs. This law provided stimulus funds to the
Brownfields Program to award grants to evaluate and
clean up former industrial and commercial sites. Under
this law, EPA will provide financial assistance to
eligible applicants through four competitive grant
programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund
grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants.

Community Description

The City of Bremerton was selected to receive a
brownfields cleanup grant. Eight of the top 20 priority
brownfields in Kitsap County are in Bremerton
(population 35,295). Several of these  sites are on the
Sinclair Inlet and Port Washington Narrows shoreline.
The neighborhood adjacent to the target site is Navy
Yard City, which is close to the Puget Sound Naval
Shipyard. Since the early 1900s, the shipyard has been
the primary source of jobs in Bremerton. Between 2000
and 2005, the Navy changed its technology and mission
in the Puget Sound area, resulting in the loss of at least
2,000 jobs. The target area is one of the most
impoverished in the Puget Sound region, where 25
percent of residents are minorities, and 27 percent live
below the poverty level. When the target site is cleaned
up, the city plans to redevelop it as a light industrial or
commercial facility. Redevelopment is expected to
leverage additional investment, create jobs, and
generate new economic activity.
                                      Cleanup Grant

                                      $200,000 for hazardous substances
                                      (Recovery Act Funding)

                                      EPA has selected the City of Bremerton for a
                                      brownfields cleanup grant. Hazardous substances
                                      grant funds will be used to clean up the Robinson
                                      property at 1118 Charleston Beach Road. The
                                      quarter-acre site was formerly a restaurant, garage,
                                      and stove shop, and is contaminated with mercury,
                                      metals, and carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic
                                      hydrocarbons. Grant funds also will be used to
                                      conduct groundwater monitoring and support
                                      community involvement 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 10 Brownfields Team
                                      (206)553-7299
                                      EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
                                      (http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/
                                      sites/bf)

                                      Grant Recipient: City of Bremerton,WA
                                      (360) 473-5272

                                      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-09-138
        May 09

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