Brownfields 2001 Revolving Loan Fund Pilot
* Fact Sheet
\WJ State of Nevada (Coalition with Department of Environmental Protection
and Mineral County)

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
Economic decline in Nevada's northern and rural areas,
including Mineral County, is linked to military
downsizing, decreased mining and agriculture operations,
and reduced tourism (due to competition with legalized
gambling in other states). Diversification of the local
economy is necessary to prevent further decline of the
region's infrastructure. The State is addressing these
issues, and has a strong brownfields track record,
including a voluntary cleanup program, an existing
state-level brownfields coordinator, and an EPA
Regional Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA)
Project in Mineral County. The Nevada BCRLF will be
administered by a coalition of state and local agencies to
provide access to low interest rate loans for brownfields
redevelopment throughout the State (except for the Las
Vegas BCRLF Project Area). Special emphasis will be
placed on Mineral County and the Community of
Hawthorne.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 04/01/2001
Amount: $2,000,000
Profile: Locations throughout the State of Nevada
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 9 Brownfields Team
(415)972-3091
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
(http ://www .epa.gov/region9/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Nevada Division of Environmental
Protection
(775) 687-4670 ext 3024
Objectives
The BCRLF will provide incentives for the re-use of
brownfields sites and will be a powerful tool for
municipalities within Nevada to strengthen their local
economies. By encouraging stakeholders to take an
active part in the redevelopment of idle properties and
by attracting new interests to local commerce and
tourism, the Nevada BCRLF can help to shape and
expand economic diversification.
Initially, the Nevada BCRLF will be utilized to forward
the economic revitalization goals of Hawthorne's
Targeted Brownfields Assessment project, consisting of
240 acres of the community's former landfill. This site is
located in an approved redevelopment area, a portion of
which is planned for an eighteen-hole regional golf
course with adjacent homes.
Activities
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The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection
(NDEP), Bureau of Corrective Actions will serve as the
cooperative agreement recipient and lead agency. The
NDEP Superfund Supervisor and Brownfields Program
Manager will serve as the brownfields site manager. The
State plans to select an external organization as the fund
manager.
This pilot will coordinate with existing funding sources
and financial incentives to maximize the number of
projects benefitting from Nevada's BCRLF. The NDEP
commitment includes in-kind contributions in excess of
$200,000, specifically utilizing the Department's highly
trained Remediation Project Managers to complement
the Superfund/Brownfields staff in lead agency and site
manager activities. In addition, the Community of
Hawthorne staff will contribute upwards of $175,000 in
in-kind services by providing staff resources to assist
potential borrowers. Developers may also take
advantage of a relatively new Nevada law, wherein a
water quality remediation district is created, and the
costs of cleanup are divided among properties within
the remediation district.
Use of BCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of
funding also apply to BCRLF funds.
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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