Brownfields 2014  Assessment Grant  Fact Sheet
              Sherwood, OR
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

                    $200,000 for hazardous substances

                    EPA has selected the City of Sherwood for a
                    brownfields assessment grant. Site-specific
                    hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
                    conduct an environmental site assessment of a
                    25-acre portion of the former Frontier Leather
                    Tannery at 14647 SW Oregon Street. The former
                    tannery operated from 1947 to 1999. Between
                    1956 and 1972, a portion of the property was
                    leased to a manufacturer of lead-acid batteries.
                    The property has been vacant since operations
                    ceased in 1999. Grant funds also will be used to
                    develop a cleanup plan  and 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: City of Sherwood,OR
                                                     503-625-4204

                                                     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-14-164
      May 2014

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