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Brownflelds 2017 Area-Wide Planning Grant Fact Sheet
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EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownflelds Program empowers states, corrirriuriities,
arid other stake holders to work together to prevent, assess,
safely clean up, arid sustainably reuse brownfields. k
browniield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment,
or reuse of which maybe complicated by the presence or
potential presence of a hazard:us substance, pollutant, or
contamiriarit. In 2002, the Small Busiriess Liability Relief arid
Brownflelds Revitalisation .^ct was passed to help states arid
communities around the country clean up arid revitalize
brownflelds sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through competitive grant
programs forbrownfields site assessment, site cleanup,
revolving loan funds, area-wide planning, ard job training.
Additional fundi rg support is provided to state arid tubal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program
EPA's Brownfields Are a-Wide Planning
Program assists communities in responding
to local brownfields challenges,
particularly where multiple brown fie Id
sites are in close proximity, connected by
infrastructure, and limit the economic,
environmental and social prosperity of
their surroundings. This program enhances
EPA's core brownfields assistance
programs by providing grant funding to
communities so they can perform the
research needed to develop an area-wide
plan and implementation strategies for
brownfields assessment, cleanup, and
reuse. The resulting area-wide plans
provide direction for future brownfields
area improvements that are protective of
public health and the environment,
economically viable, and reflective of the
community's vision for the area.
Project Description
$200,000.00
EPA has selected the City of Glenwood Springs
as a Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant
recipient. The city will work with the community
and other stakeholders to develop an area-wide
plan and implementation strategy for revitalizing
brownfields in the Confluence Corridor into a new
downtown area where the Colorado River flows
east of the Glenwood Canyon to meet the Roaring
Fork River. This strategy will capitalize on a rare
opportunity to envision and redevelop a prime
riverfront area within the heart of the city. The
main catalyst site is a five-acre decommissioned
wastewater treatment plant. Other catalyst sites
include a five-acre riverside Colorado Department
of Transportation maintenance site and the
27-acre former Pitkin Iron Corporation abandoned
limestone quarry known as the Holly Quarry. All
are located in a quarter-square-mile area
surrounding the confluence and downtown. Reuse
of the catalyst brown fie Ids is envisioned to
include a hotel and mining museum with
associated retail, much needed affordable and
mixed-rate housing, green infrastructure for
stormwater management, and riverfront
recreational access that will transform the
underutilized confluence corridor into a vibrant
gateway to the Roaring Fork Valley. Key partners
who will work with the city on this project include
the city's Downtown Development Authority and
Chamber Resort Association, Community
Builders and Colorado Brownfields Partnership,
Colorado Mountain College, GlenX and Super
School, and Glenwood Caverns Adventure Parte.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional
grant information, brownfields news arid events, arid publications and
United States
Environmental
Protedicn fluency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
ard Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-17-0010
Januay 2017

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links, visit the EPA Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 8 Brownfields Team
(303) 312-6184
EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
(https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-region-8)
Grant Recipient: City of Glenwood Springs, CO
(970) 384-6401
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-17-0010
January 2017

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