\ Brownfields 2013 Area-Wide Planning Grant
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***««* Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 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 clean up and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through competitive grant
programs for brownfields site assessment, site cleanup,
revolving loan funds, area-wide planning, and job
training. Additional funding support is provided to state
and tribal response programs through a separate
mechanism.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program
EPA's Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program assists communities in responding to
local brownfields challenges, particularly where
multiple brownfield sites are in close proximity,
connected by infrastructure, and limit the
economic, environmental and social prosperity
of their surroundings. This program enhances
EPA's core brownfields assistance programs by
providing grant funding to communities so they
can perform the research needed to develop an
area-wide plan and implementation strategies for
brownfields assessment, cleanup, and reuse. The
resulting area-wide plans provide direction for
future brownfields area improvements that are
protective of public health and the environment,
economically viable, and reflective of the
community's vision for the area. Recipients
selected under this program will receive up to
$200,000 in EPA grant funding.
Project Description
$200,000
EPA has selected the Philadelphia City Planning
Commission as a Brownfields Area-Wide
Planning grant recipient. The city will work with
the community and other stakeholders to develop
an area-wide plan and implementation strategy to
help guide the reactivation of several parcels of
brownfield land adjacent to the Frankford Creek
and Delaware River in the Bridesburg and
Frankford neighborhoods. The city will conduct
brownfields research, analysis, community
visioning and planning through this project, and
will work with the community to balance social
equity, environmental protection, and economic
vitality objectives. Key partners for this project are
the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources, Drexel University, Bridesburg
Business Association, and various other city, state,
community organizations.
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: Philadelphia City Planning
Commission,PA
215-683-4609
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
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