Brownfields 2013 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
              Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, Berkshire County,
              MA
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 Berkshire Regional Planning
                    Commission for two brownfields assessment
                    grants. Community-wide hazardous substances
                    grant funds will be used to conduct a brownfields
                    inventory and  perform two Phase I and four Phase
                    II environmental site assessments. Grant funds
                    also will be used to support community outreach
                    activities. Petroleum grant funds will be used to
                    conduct the same tasks at sites with potential
                    petroleum contamination. Activities will focus on
                    the traditional  manufacturing towns and cities in
                    Berkshire County.
                                                     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: Berkshire Regional Planning
                                                     Commission,MA
                                                     (413)442-1521

                                                     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-13-177
      May 2013

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