Brownfields 2014 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Monroe County, 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 Grant
$350,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected Monroe County for a
brownfields assessment grant. Site-specific
hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
conduct five Phase I and five Phase II
environmental site assessments at the 308-acre
former Gulf Ordnance Plant, now known as
Prairie Industrial Park - North. The site, located at
10015 Worldwide Drive in Aberdeen, was home to
a World War II ammunition plant from 1942 to
1945. Activities at the plant included loading and
assembly of small arms ammunition;
manufacturing of large projectiles, rockets, and
bombs; and ordnance storage and demolition.
Subsequent uses of the site included a veterans
training school and an Air Force vehicle storage
lot. The plant was declared excess in 1946 and
added to the list of Formerly Used Defense Sites.
Grant funds also will be used for area-wide
planning to determine priority areas for cleanup
plans, and for community involvement 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 4 Brownfields Team
404-562-8923
EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region4/rcr
a/bflr/brownfields.html)
Grant Recipient: Monroe County, Mississippi
662-319-5995
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
accuracy of this information. The cooperative
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA-560-F-14-112
May 2014
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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-14-112
May 2014
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