Brownfields 2013 Assessment  Grant Fact Sheet
              Indiana  15 Regional Planning Commission,  Southern Indiana
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.
                    Assessment Grant

                    $253,100 for hazardous substances
                    $146,900 for petroleum

                    EPA has selected the Indiana 15 Regional
                    Planning Commission for a brownfields
                    assessment coalition grant. Community-wide
                    hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
                    conduct nine Phase I and seven Phase II
                    environmental site assessments. Petroleum grant
                    funds will be used to conduct six Phase I and four
                    Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant
                    funds also will be used to develop up to six
                    cleanup plans, maintain an inventory of sites, and
                    conduct community outreach activities. Coalition
                    partners are Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry,
                    Pike, and Spencer Counties.
                                                     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 5 Brownfields Team
                                                     312-886-4747
                                                     EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
                                                     (http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfiel ds/)

                                                     Grant Recipient: Indiana 15 Regional Planning
                                                     Commission
                                                     812-367-8455

                                                     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-13-125
      May 2013

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