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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 sustain ably reuse
brownfields. Abrownfield 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 1 1, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into
law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
P^vitalization 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 Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
for a Brownfields Assessment Pilot. The Keweenaw Bsy
Indian Community, which is located in the northwestern
region of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has a
membership of 3,267. The unemployment rate in the
community is 33 percent. The community is a federally
recognized Indian Tribe representing the interests of the
LAnse and Ontonagon Bands of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians.
The community has targeted Sand Point, a 95-acre
waterfront property on the L'Anse Indian Pv.eservation,
for this Brownfields Pilot. The community owns Sand
Point, which contains about six billion pounds of
industrial copper mining sands deposited along a 2.5
mile waterfront of Lake Superior. The sands were
discharged into the Lake by a copper stamping mill early
in the 20th century, and are suspected to contain copper,
lead, cadmium, and other heavy metals.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 04/01/2001
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets a 95-acre waterfront
property that is owned by the Keweenaw Bay Indian
Community, which suffers from a 33 percent
unemployment rate.
Contacts
For farther information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit the
EPA Brownfields Web site
(http: //www. ep a. go v/brownfi el d s).
EPA Pv.egion 5 Brownfields Team
(312) 336-7576
EPA Pv.egion 5 Brownfields Web site
(http: //www. ep a. go v/Pv.5 Bro wn fi el ds)
Grant Pvecipient: Keweenaw Bay Indian
Community, MI
(906) 524-5757 ext 13
Obj ectives
The community's objective is to transform Sand Point
into a recreational park, which will expand the
community's growing recreational base. Pilot funds will
be used to research the history of the Sand Point area to
determine the nature of the suspected contamination,
measure the level of contamination through surveys and
sampling, identify options for cleanup and reclamation,
and develop a preliminary reclamation plan for
recreational development.
Activities
United States
Environmental
Protedicn Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
arc! Emergency
Response (5105T)
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Pve searching the histoiy of the Sand Point area
and the adjacent fbtrner mill site to guide
assessment of possible contamination in the Sand
Point area;
•	Conducting assessments to determine the level of
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contamination in the Sand Point area;
•	Identifying options for cleanup and reclamation
of the Sand Point area; and
•	Developing a preliminary reclamation plan for
recreational development of the Sand Point area.
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.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response(5105T)
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