Brownfields 2013 Area-Wide Planning Grant
Fact Sheet
Council Bluffs, I A
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
$166,500
EPA has selected the City of Council Bluffs as a
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning grant recipient.
The city will work with local residents, other
community members and stakeholders to develop
a brownfields area-wide plan and implementation
strategy for the Mid-City Urban Renewal Area.
This area (approximately 70 acres) historically
developed around the mainline Union Pacific
railroad and U.S. Highway 6, which encouraged
manufacturing and warehouse facilities to locate
on adjacent properties. A former foundry site lies
within the project area and poses the greatest
potential for adverse environmental affects on
surrounding residential neighborhoods. Efforts to
create the brownfields area-wide plan will include
a robust community involvement strategy, creation
of brownfields site design and land use
alternatives, as well as an implementation plan
with short-, mid-, and long-term action items. The
city will work with various partnering
organizations, Pottawattamie County
Development Corporation, Family Housing
Advisory Services, Community Housing
Investment Corporation, and the Iowa West
Foundation, to develop the brownfields area-wide
plan.
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 7 Brownfields Team
913-551-7357
EPA Region 7 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region07/cl
eanup/brownfields/index.htm)
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-13-039
April 2013
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Grant Recipient: City of Council Bluffs,IA
(712) 328-4629
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-13-039
April 2013
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