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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 Southwest Region Planning Commission was
selected to receive two brownfields assessment grants.
The Southwest Region (population 98,538) is a network
of villages and low-density rural housing surrounding
several regional centers of commerce and employment.
The region borders Massachusetts to the south and
Vermont to the west, across the Connecticut River. The
region's demographics are diverse. However, more than
61 percent of the jobs are in three of the region's 36
municipalities. Between 2000 and 2004, the region lost
almost 1,200 jobs. The formerly industrial town centers,
with the greatest potential for contamination, are the
region's most densely populated centers. These centers
tend to have low-to-moderate income neighborhoods,
with a disproportionate number of sensitive populations at
a disadvantage in an area where reliable personal
transportation is necessary to access employment.
Assessment and redevelopment of the region's
brownfields sites are key to generating local employment
opportunities for area residents, enhancing the local tax
base, and preserving the rural farms and forest landscape.
Assessment and cleanup of brownfields sites are also
important to the water supply of the region, where nine of
eleven municipal sources rely solely on groundwater.
Assessment Grant
$158,000 for hazardous substances
$158,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Southwest Region Planning
Commission for two brownfields assessment
grants. Hazardous substances grant funds will be
used to support the already established advisory
committee, conduct community outreach
activities, inventory and rank sites contaminated
by hazardous substances and/or petroleum, and
perform up to five Phase I and up to four Phase II
site assessments around the Southwest Region's 36
municipalities of New Hampshire. Petroleum
funding will be used to conduct the same activities
for sites with potential petroleum contamination.
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 1 Brownfields Team
(617) 918-1424
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/regionl/bro wnfields )
Grant Recipient: Southwest Region
Planning Commission, NH
Southwest Region Planning Commission
(603)357-0557
Southwest Region Planning Commission
(603)357-0557
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
United States
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Washington, DC 20450
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