Brownfields  2014 Assessment  Grant Fact  Sheet
               Gawf/er, MS
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 City of Gautier for two
                     brownfields assessment grants. Community-wide
                     hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
                     will be used to search environmental databases for
                     potential hazardous substances and petroleum sites
                     in the city to target sites for environmental site
                     assessments. Grant funds of both types will be
                     used to perform approximately 25 Phase I and
                     eight Phase II environmental site assessments.
                     Both types of grant funds also will be used to
                     support outreach to the community through
                     preparation of printed materials, dissemination of
                     information, and public meetings.
                                                      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 4 Brownfields Team
                                                      404-562-8923
                                                      EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site
                                                      (http://www.epa.gov/region4/rcr
                                                      a/bflr/brownfields.html)

                                                      Grant Recipient:  City of Gautier,MS
                                                      228-806-1285

                                                      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-14-070
      May 2014

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