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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 Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation for a Brownfields Pilot. The Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Reservation was established in
1872 by Executive Order under President Ulysses S.
Grant. The Colville Reservation is 2,100 square miles,
located in isolated north Washington, near the Canadian
border. The reservation is bordered by the Columbia
River on the east and south, the Okanogan River on the
west, and heavily timbered U.S. Forest Service land on
the north. The Tribes have 8,507 members, with more
than 50 percent living within reservation boundaries. The
community has a 45 percent unemployment rate with 28
percent of the population living below the poverty line.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Indian
Health Service (IHS) maintained facilities designed to
serve the local population for nearly 100 years. In 1985,
BIA and IHS returned these properties to the Tribes. The
Tribes took the property, using some of the structures for
tribal office space and some for low-income housing;
other buildings were left empty because of severely
deteriorating conditions (e.g., broken windows, exposed
pipes and wires) and have subsequently been abandoned.
The Pilot will target two brownfields- the 92-acre
Agency Headquarters property and the 20-acre
Sub-Agency property- which both have known or
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Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/01/2000
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets two former federal
facilities, totaling more than 100 acres, located on the
Colville Reservation.
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 10 Brownfields Team
(206)553-7299
EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
(http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/
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Grant Recipient: Colville Confederated Tribes,WA
(509) 634-2419
Objectives
The Pilot will enhance the Tribes' ability to strengthen
and advance self-sufficiency and to protect the human
health of the membership and those that reside within
the reservation boundaries. The Pilot will investigate
potential environmental hazards at BIA and IHS
facilities and formulate redevelopment plans for the
facilities to foster opportunities for the tribal population.
The Pilot will help quantify known and unknown
potential health and safety issues so a cleanup plan can
be implemented.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Conducting Phase I environmental assessments
and historical records searches at the targeted
brownfields;
•	Conducting Phase II environmental assessments
at the targeted brownfields;
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•	Developing and implementing a community
involvement plan to ensure meaningful
community input for assessment and cleanup and
reuse planning at the targeted sites;
•	Entering the assessment data to the Tribes'
geographic information system (GIS); and
•	Designing a comprehensive and sustainable
reuse plan for the two sites that is consistent with
overall tribal cultural and economic plans.
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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