Brownfields 2006 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
™ Capital City Development Corporation, Boise, ID
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
The Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC) was
selected to receive a brownfields assessment grant. CCDC
is the redevelopment agency for Boise (population
432,345) in Ada County, Idaho. The assessment grant will
target brownfields in downtown Boise. The
unemployment rate in the downtown area is 5.7 percent.
Twenty-three percent of residents in one neighborhood
live below the poverty level. Within these communities,
there are former industrial sites, rail yards, drycleaners,
and repair sites, with real and perceived contamination.
This has resulted in little or no redevelopment just beyond
the central business district. Over 50 percent of the
parcels in large sections of the target area are vacant or
substantially underdeveloped. Without assessment and
eventual cleanup of these areas, development will
continue to occur at the fringes in the least sustainable
manner, contributing to worsening air quality, more traffic
congestion, and higher infrastructure costs. Brownfield
grant funds will help CCDC and the community move
these underperforming sites into more productive use,
providing both direct and indirect long-term economic
benefits. Brownfields redevelopment will add vitality to
downtown Boise, provide a boost to retail businesses,
reduce environmental and congestion problems, and
increase jobs and median income levels.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the Capital City Development
Corporation for a brownfields assessment grant.
Hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
perform Phase I and II environmental site
assessments within downtown Boise, and create
an inventory of potential brownfields sites. Funds
also will be used for community involvement
activities, and an analysis of cleanup alternatives.
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 10 Brownfields Team
(206)553-7299
EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
(http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CL
EANUP.NSF/sites/bf)
Grant Recipient: Capital City Development
Corporation,ID
(208) 384-4264
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)
EPA560-F-06-196
May 2006
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