Brownfields 2014 Assessment Grant  Fact Sheet
              Bear Paw Development Corporation of Northern  Montana
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 Bear Paw Development
                    Corporation of Northern Montana for two
                    brownfields assessment grants. Community-wide
                    hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
                    will be used to conduct 12 Phase I and nine Phase
                    II environmental site assessments. Grant funds
                    also will be used to develop nine sampling and
                    analysis plans, and to conduct cleanup planning
                    and community outreach activities. The focus of
                    assessments will be on Hill, Chouteau, Elaine,
                    Liberty, and Phillips Counties, as well as the
                    Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, all in north
                    central Montana.
                                                     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 8 Brownfields Team
                                                     (303)312-6706
                                                     EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
                                                     (http ://www2 .epa.gov/region8/br
                                                     ownfields-region-8 )

                                                     Grant Recipient: Bear Paw Development
                                                     Corporation of Northern Montana
                                                     406-265-9226

                                                     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-14-036
      May 2014

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