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Brownfields 2001 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, OK
EPA Brownfields Initiative
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. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into
law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields 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.
Background
EPA has selected the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes for
a Brownfields Pilot. Tribal lands are located in an
eight-county area in northwestern Oklahoma. They
include 10,000 acres of tribally owned trust land and
almost 77,000 acres of individual trust allotments
provided under the Dawes Act of 1887. Nearly 7,300
members of the tribes live on or near the former
Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation. The annual income
of tribal members is estimated to be $11,000, which is
less than half the median income level for the state. The
unemployment rate is about 53 percent.
The Pilot has identified potential brownfields sites within
the former reservation, including four former schools.
The Pilot's primary location of interest is the Concho
School. The school was constructed in 1908 and
contained a hospital and an industrial arts school. Late in
the 1920s, the school also began providing training in
dairying, farming, auto and farm mechanics, and horse
shoe and harness repair. The site has been abandoned
since 1982 and is now owned by the tribes.
Contamination from medical wastes, pesticides, solvents,
PCBs, lead, and asbestos is suspected. Similar types of
contamination also are expected at the other schools. The
abandoned and run-down condition of these and other
potential brownfields properties provides pathways for
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Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 04/01/2001
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets three brownfields sites
within the former Cheyenne and Arapaho
reservation, where tribal members suffer from a 53
percent unemployment rate.
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 6 Brownfields Team
(214) 665-6780
EPA Region 6 Brownfields Web site
(http ://www .epa.gov/region6/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of
Oklahoma
(978)345-9602
Objectives
The objective of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes is to
enhance the quality of life of tribal members residing
near the selected brownfields. The Pilot hopes to
accomplish this objective by assessing the potential for
exposure to contamination and by planning for
redevelopment of these historic lands for the economic
benefit of the tribes.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Soliciting input from the community through
quarterly meetings in the 10 tribal districts and
meetings at senior citizen centers;
•	Prioritizing brownfields and selecting three
target sites;
•	Conducting Phase I and Phase II environmental
site assessments of target sites;
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 500-F-01-282
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The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change
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.
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