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| Brownfields 2015 Area-Wide Planning Grant Fact Sheet
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
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 clean up and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through competitive grant
programs for brownfields site assessment, site cleanup,
revolving loan funds, area-wide planning, and job training.
Additional funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program
EPA's Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program assists communities in responding
to local brownfields challenges,
particularly where multiple brownfield
sites are in close proximity, connected by
infrastructure, and limit the economic,
environmental and social prosperity of
their surroundings. This program enhances
EPA's core brownfields assistance
programs by providing grant funding to
communities so they can perform the
research needed to develop an area-wide
plan and implementation strategies for
brownfields assessment, cleanup, and
reuse. The resulting area-wide plans
provide direction for future brownfields
area improvements that are protective of
public health and the environment,
economically viable, and reflective of the
community's vision for the area.
Project Description
$200,000.00
EPA has selected Temple University as a
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant recipient.
The university will work with the community and
other stakeholders to develop an area-wide plan
and implementation strategy for the Kensington
Neighborhood. The neighborhood exemplifies the
cumulative detrimental effects of a formerly
industrial area: a distressed community left
behind with significant economic, social, public
health, and environmental justice concerns. The
grant will be used to develop a plan that will
address the community's concerns and develop an
implementation plan for brownfield site
assessment, cleanup, and reuse. The grant will
enable the city to conduct research into existing
conditions, carry out community outreach and
visioning activities, and hold community design
workshops and charrettes. The outcomes of this
project will serve as a base for discussion with city
agencies and property owners about future uses of
brownfield sites. These discussions are expected
to allow project partners to pair developable land
with uses that can directly benefit the community,
such as local retail, subsidized space for job
training and computer literacy service providers,
and raised urban agriculture to increase healthy
food access. Key partners who will work with the
university on this project include the Philadelphia
City Planning Commission, the New Kensington
Community Development Corporation, Econsult
Solutions, Inc., Re:Vision Architecture,
Philadelphia Association of Community
Development Corporations, Conrail, SEPTA
Police Department, Community Center at
Visitation, Temple Community and Regional
Planning, Temple Department of Landscape
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
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Agriculture and Horticulture, and Pennsylvania
Environmental Council.
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)814-3129
EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web site
(https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-delaware-mar
yland-pennsylvania-Virginia-west)
Grant Recipient: Temple University, PA
(267) 468-8314
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
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
Solid Waste
EPA 560-F-15-009
March 2015

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