Brownfields 2014 Assessment Grant Fact  Sheet
              Franklin Regional Council of Governments, Franklin 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
                    $100,000 for petroleum

                    EPA has selected the Franklin Regional Council of
                    Governments for two brownfields assessment
                    grants. Community-wide hazardous substances
                    and petroleum grant funds will be used to
                    inventory sites and conduct 12 Phase I and
                    between three and five Phase II environmental site
                    assessments. Grant funds also will be used to
                    support community involvement and education
                    activities and to prepare two or three cleanup plans.
                    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
                    617-918-1278
                    EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
                    (http://www.epa.gov/regionl/bro wnfields)

                    Grant Recipient: Franklin Regional Council of
                    Governments,MA
                    (413)774-H94extl05

                    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-14-069
      May 2014

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