Brownfields 2013 Area-Wide Planning Grant
              Fact Sheet
              Burlington, VT
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 City of Burlington 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 for the Railyard
                    Enterprise brownfield area. Through this project,
                    the city will conduct community engagement,
                    outreach, and an existing conditions analysis,
                    which will result in the creation of a shared vision
                    for the Railyard Enterprise brownfield and
                    strategic steps for the area's near- and long-term
                    cleanup, reuse, and redevelopment. Key project
                    partners include the South End Arts Business
                    Association, the Champlain Housing Trust, the
                    Chittenden County Regional Planning
                    Commission, and the King Street Youth Center.
                    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: City of Burlington, VT
                    (802)865-7173

                    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-13-029
      April 2013

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