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   4B-7)   Brownfields 2014 Assessment Grant  Fact Sheet
         '•*   Atez Perce Tribe, ID
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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 Grant

                                                   $199,978 for hazardous substances

                                                   EPA has selected the Nez Perce Tribe for a
                                                   brownfields assessment grant. Site-specific
                                                   hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
                                                   conduct a Phase II environmental site assessment,
                                                   which will include soil vapor sample screening
                                                   and groundwater monitoring well sampling, at
                                                   Tribal Unit-45, a 38.9-acre site on the northern
                                                   boundary of the Nez Perce Reservation in Orofino.
                                                   The area was previously used as a saw mill
                                                   operation, creosote wood treatment facility, and
                                                   asphalt batch plant. Grant funds also will be used
                                                   to conduct community outreach activities.
                                                     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 10 Brownfields Team
                                                     206-553-2580
                                                     EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
                                                     (http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CL
                                                     EANUP.NSF/sites/bf)

                                                     Grant Recipient: Nez Perce Tribe,ID
                                                     (208)843-7368

                                                     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-14-121
      May 2014

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