• Brownfields 2014 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Plymouth, IN
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
$450,000 for hazardous substances
$150,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the City of Plymouth for a
brownfields assessment coalition grant.
Community-wide hazardous substances grant
funds will be used to perform from 10 to 15 Phase
I and eight to 14 Phase II environmental site
assessments. Petroleum grant funds will be used to
perform from four to six Phase I and from three to
five Phase II environmental site assessments.
Grant funds of both grant types also will be used to
inventory and prioritize brownfields, conduct
health monitoring, prepare from four to eight
cleanup plans, and support community outreach
activities. The city's coalition partners are the
Town of Bourbon and Marshall County. The
coalition's assessment activities will take place in
Marshall County.
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 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-7257
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region5brow nfields/)
Grant Recipient: City of Plymouth, Indiana
574-936-6717
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-14-141
May 2014
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