Brownfields 2012 Assessment Grant Fact  Sheet
              Downriver Community Conference, Southeastern Michigan
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 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-4747
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/)

Grant Recipient:  Downriver Community Conference, MI
(734) 362-3477

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.
                    Assessment Grant

                    $400,000 for hazardous substances
                    $2 50,000 for petroleum

                    EPA has selected the Downriver Community
                    Conference for a brownfields assessment coalition
                    grant. Community-wide hazardous substances
                    grant funds will be used to conduct 36 Phase I and
                    33 Phase II environmental site assessments.
                    Petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct 14
                    Phase I and 12 Phase II environmental site
                    assessments. Grant funds also will be used for
                    conducting baseline environmental assessments
                    and community outreach activities.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA-560-F-12-101
      May 2012

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