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Brownfields 2006 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Greenville, SC
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. 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.
Community Description
The City of Greenville was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. Located in northwestern
South Carolina, Greenville (population 56,002) plans to
continue successful brownfields redevelopment efforts in
the West Greenville/Reedy River corridor by conducting
additional brownfields assessments. Approximately 40
percent of families in the West Greenville/Reedy River
corridor live at or below the poverty level, and the
corridor's unemployment rate is 12 percent. Minorities,
primarily African-Americans, make up 66 percent of
West Greenville residents. The abandonment of the city
core has left the residents of the West Greenville/Reedy
River corridor with little hope of economic prosperity.
The city has identified more than 50 potential brownfields
sites in the corridor. A number of large abandoned or
underutilized industrial facilities are the remnants of a
once profitable textile industry. Gas stations, drycleaners,
railroad sites, and other commercial and industrial sites
line the corridor. Assessment and eventual cleanup of the
brownfields sites in the West Greenville/Reedy River
corridor will protect public health and the environment
and result in redevelopment opportunities, thereby
creating jobs and reducing the unemployment and poverty
rates in the community.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the City of Greenville for a
brownfields assessment grant. Hazardous
substances grant funds will be used to support
health monitoring activities, conduct community
outreach activities, and perform Phase I and II
environmental site assessments in the West
Greenville/Reedy River corridor. Grant funds also
will be used to support cleanup and redevelopment
planning.
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 4 Brownfields Team
(404) 562-8792
EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region4/was te/bf)
Grant Recipient: City of Greenville, South
Carolina
(864) 467-4495
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-06-088
May 2006

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