)   Brownfields 2013 Cleanup Grant Fact Sheet
    ~         Ea/tA7 Conservancy, Newport Township, PA
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.
                     Cleanup Grants

                     $400,000 for hazardous substances

                     EPA has selected the Earth Conservancy for two
                     brownfields cleanup grants. Hazardous substances
                     grant funds will be used to clean up Parcels A and
                     B at the Bliss Bank site, which is located off
                     Middle Road in Newport Township. The site was
                     used by the Blue Coal Corporation as a coal waste
                     holding area until the mid-1970s, when the
                     company declared bankruptcy. The site is covered
                     with multiple coal-waste banks, some of which sit
                     three stories high. Contamination at the site causes
                     acid mine drainage that is leaching from the
                     coal-waste piles into the Nanticoke Creek
                     watershed.
                                                     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 3 Brownfields Team
                                                     215-814-3246
                                                     EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web  site
                                                     (http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/bf -lr/)

                                                     Grant Recipient: Earth Conservancy,PA
                                                     570-823-3445

                                                     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)
EPA-560-F-13-088
      May 2013

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