Brownfields 2015 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Kankakee-Iroquois Regional Planning Commission, Northwestern Indiana
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
$300,000for hazardous substances
$200,000for petroleum
EPA has selected the Kankakee-Iroquois Regional Planning Commission
for a brownfields assessment coalition grant. Community-wide
hazardous substances grant funds will be used to perform up to six Phase
I and up to eight Phase II environmental site assessments, and prepare up
to two cleanup plans. Community-wide petroleum grant funds will be
used to perform up to five Phase I and up to seven Phase II environmental
site assessments, and prepare up to two cleanup plans. Grant funds of
botli types will be used to update and maintain the coalition's brownfields
inventory and conduct community outreach activities, including up to 37
stakeholder meetings. Coalition partners are the eight counties the
Regional Planning Commission serves: Benton, Carroll, Jasper, Newton,
Pulaski, Starke, Warren, and White Counties.
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)353-8827
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region5brownfields/)
Grant Recipient: Kankakee-Iroquois Regional Planning Commission, IN
(219)253-6658
Hie 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.
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