\ Brownfields 2003 Assessment and Revolving
Loan Fund Grant Fact Sheet
Nassau County, NY
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
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into
law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields 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.
Community Description
Nassau County was selected to receive assessment and
revolving loan fund grants. Nassau County (population
1,300,000) is located on the south side of Long Island
Sound. The county is the second largest county in the
state and contains over 3,600 brownfields. Most of these
brownfields are located in downtown areas where
low-income populations tend to live and in commercial
corridors that are littered with abandoned and underused
facilities. The county is focusing its assessment grant on
two low-income and predominantly minority
communities-the Village of Hempstead and the Hamlet of
Roosevelt. Both communities suffer from health and
social problems caused by abandoned and deteriorating
brownfields. Nassau County plans to redevelop sites in
these small communities based on the principles of
sustainable development. The county, community
stakeholders, and the development community will
identify sites to be cleaned up with the revolving loan
fund grant based on redevelopment potential and
sustainable development principles.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected Nassau County for a
brownfields assessment grant. Grant funds will be
used to conduct Phase I assessments at sites in the
Village of Hempstead and the Hamlet of
Roosevelt. Grant funds also will be used to
conduct four Phase II assessments at sites to be
selected based on the results of the Phase I
assessments.
Revolving Loan Fund Grant
$700,000 for hazardous substances
$300,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected Nassau County for a
brownfields revolving loan fund grant. The grant
will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund
from which Nassau County will provide loans and
subgrants to conduct cleanup activities. The
county, which contains over 3,600 brownfields,
will use a community-based process to select sites.
Sites throughout the county contaminated by
hazardous substances and petroleum will be
considered.
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 2 Brownfields Team
(212) 637-4309
EPA Region 2 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region02/br ownfields/)
Grant Recipient: Nassau County,NY
(516)571-3131
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA500-F-03-142
June 2003
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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)
EPA500-F-03-142
June 2003
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