Brownfields 2012 Revolving Loan Fund Grant
              Fact  Sheet
              Northampton County, 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.

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: County of Northampton, PA
601-559-3200

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.
                    Revolving Loan Fund Grant

                    $650,000 for hazardous substances

                    EPA has selected the County of Northampton for a
                    brownfields revolving loan fund grant. The grant
                    will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund
                    from which the County of Northampton will
                    provide loans and subgrants to support cleanup
                    activities for sites contaminated with hazardous
                    substances. The county anticipates providing two
                    or three loans and two or three subgrants. Grant
                    funds also  will be used for management and
                    community involvement activities.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA-560-F-12-062
      May 2012

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