Brownfields 2012  Cleanup Grant  Fact Sheet
   ™         Paw/ Cuffee School, Providence, Rl
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. In 2002,
the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act was passed to help states and
communities around the country cleanup and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this 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.

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 1 Brownfields Team
617-918-1429
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/)

Grant Recipient: Paul Cuffee School, RI

Cleanup Grant:
401-248-1685

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.
                     Cleanup Grants

                     $400,000 for hazardous substances

                     EPA has selected the Paul Cuffee School for two
                     brownfields cleanup grants. Hazardous substances
                     grant funds will be used to clean up Parcels A and
                     B of the former Living Room Nightclub site on 15
                     and 27 Rathbone  Street in Providence. The site is
                     located on a former pond filled with
                     undocumented material and was home to several
                     restaurants and a nightclub until the structures
                     were demolished  in 2010. Soil at the site is
                     contaminated with metals and polycyclic aromatic
                     hydrocarbons co-mingled with petroleum.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA-560-F-12-049
      May 2012

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