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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 City of Louisville was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. About 161 of Louisville's
18,937 residents live in the targeted Highway 42
Revitalization Area. The neighborhoods bordering the
industrial area include older, single-family residences,
the majority of which are occupied by renters.
One-third of these residences are headed by a person 55
years or older. Median home values in these
neighborhoods are lower than the median for the city as
a whole, mainly because of their proximity to the
industrial area. The prime redevelopment area is zoned
as industrial. It consists, in part, of a moving and
storage warehouse, a landscape contractor's nursery, an
auto body shop, and a concrete batch plant. Former
uses include a lumber yard, a gun club and shooting
range, a metal parts manufacturer, and a tool and die
maker. Plans for the Highway 42 Revitalization Area
include preserving the two existing residential
communities and converting the existing industrial
tracts into a transit-oriented mixed-use development
adjacent to the city's historic downtown.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the City of Louisville for a
brownfields assessment grant. Grant funds will be
used to perform environmental site assessments at
potentially contaminated sites located within the
Highway 42 Revitalization Area. In the target area,
two residential neighborhoods and a commercial
zone will require historical use investigations. A
fourth zone, which is currently an industrial area,
will be the prime focus of the assessment effort.
Grant funds will also be used for public health
monitoring, reuse and cleanup planning, and
conducting public outreach.
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 8 Brownfields Team
(303)312-7074
EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region8/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Louisville,CO
(303) 335-4590
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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