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Brownfields 2007 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Saint Paul Port Authority, MN
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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 Saint Paul Port Authority was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. Located in eastern
Minnesota, Saint Paul (population 287,151) experienced
economic decline in the 1970s and 1980s due to the
closing and downsizing of major manufacturers. There
are about 1,000 acres of brownfields in the city, mostly
concentrated along the Mississippi River and former
industrial corridors. Today, the city is a federally
designated Enterprise Community with a large minority
population that includes African-American, Hmong,
and Hispanic residents. The city is focusing its
assessment efforts on the Phalen, Great Northern, and
University-Midway Corridors. These neighborhoods
have great ethnic and cultural diversity, and are among
the most impoverished in the city. The Port Authority
plans to assess sites with the goal of assembling
properties to create three sites ready for redevelopment.
Once assessment and eventual cleanups are complete,
the assembled properties will be redeveloped into
multi-use business and job centers in the city's older
neighborhoods.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Saint Paul Port Authority for a
brownfields assessment grant. Petroleum grant funds
will be used to conduct two or three Phase I and two
or three Phase II environmental site assessments.
Funds also will be used for community involvement
activities, including translating materials into
Spanish, Hmong, and other languages.
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 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-7576
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http: //www. epa.gov/R5 Brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Saint Paul Port Authority,MN
(651)224-5686
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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