Brownfields 2013 Assessment Grant Fact  Sheet
    ~         Eastern Maine Development Corporation
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 Grants

                    $200,000 for hazardous substances

                    $200,000 for petroleum

                    EPA has selected the Eastern Maine Development
                    Corporation for two brownfields assessment
                    grants. Community-wide hazardous substances
                    grant funds will be used to inventory sites and
                    conduct five Phase I and three Phase II
                    environmental site assessments. Grant funds also
                    will be used to support cleanup planning and
                    community outreach activities. Petroleum grant
                    funds will be used to conduct the same tasks at
                    sites with potential petroleum contamination. The
                    target areas for this grant are Penobscot County
                    and the Penobscot River Valley.
                                                     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 1 Brownfields Team
                                                     617-918-1429
                                                     EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
                                                     (http://www.epa.gov/region01/br ownfields/)

                                                     Grant Recipient: Eastern Maine Development
                                                     Corporation
                                                     207-942-6389

                                                     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-13-179
      May 2013

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