Brownfields  2014 Assessment Grant Fact  Sheet
               Wye County,
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

                     $420,165 for hazardous substances
                     $179,83 5 for petroleum

                     EPA has selected Nye County for a brownfields
                     assessment coalition grant. Community-wide
                     hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
                     will be used to conduct up to 18 Phase I and up to
                     four Phase II environmental site assessments in a
                     rural desert region in both Nevada and California.
                     Grant funds also will be used for cleanup
                     planning, area-wide planning, monitoring and
                     evaluating the success of any implemented
                     institutional controls, and conducting community
                     outreach activities. The county's assessment
                     coalition partners are the Nevada counties of
                     Esmeralda, Lincoln,  Mineral, and White Pine, and
                     Inyo County in California.
                                                      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 9 Brownfields Team
                                                      (213)244-1821
                                                      EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
                                                      (http://www.epa.gov/region9/bro wnfields)

                                                      Grant Recipient: Nye County,NV
                                                      775-727-3484

                                                      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-14-131
      May 2014

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