Brownfields  2014  Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
              West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection,
              Nicholas, Fayette, and Raleigh Counties, WV
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 petroleum

                    EPA has selected the West Virginia Department of
                    Environmental Protection (WVDEP) for a
                    brownfields assessment grant. Community-wide
                    petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct up
                    to eight Phase I and five Phase II environmental
                    site assessments. WVDEP will involve the
                    community in prioritizing sites for assessment,
                    with a focus on Nicholas, Fayette, and Raleigh
                    Counties. The completed Phase II assessments
                    will be evaluated for human health and ecological
                    risk factors to develop cleanup plans.
                                                    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 3 Brownfields Team
                                                    215-814-3246
                                                    EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web site
                                                    (http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/bf -lr/)

                                                    Grant Recipient: West Virginia Department of
                                                    Environmental Protection
                                                    304-926-0499 ext 1263

                                                    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-14-192
      May 2014

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