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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 Fairbanks North Star Borough was selected to receive
a brownfields assessment grant. Within the borough
(population 85,978), the target area includes a former
Fairbanks City landfill that has impeded development
opportunities on what should be prime real estate along
the Chena River. One of Fairbanks' most economically
depressed neighborhoods lies directly south and east of
the site. Unemployment in this target area is 7.4 percent,
and the percentage of American Indian and Alaskan
Native people is 15.5 percent. The city landfill, which was
unregulated from 1951 to 1965, was filled primarily with
municipal refuse, scrap metal, junk automobiles, scrap
lumber, and household goods. In the late 1960s, one-third
of the site was developed into baseball fields with a
pedestrian pathway paralleling the river. In 2004, a
portion of the site was paved as a parking lot, leaving the
remainder of the site undeveloped. Erosion along the
Chena River has resulted in some buried waste at the
landfill being exposed, including appliances, construction
waste, and automobile parts. The borough plans to
redevelop the property into a mixed-use development of
commercial, residential, office, and sports facilities, with
an adjacent site being developed into a fish hatchery.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the Fairbanks North Star
Borough for a brownfields assessment grant.
Grant funds will be used to perform Phase I and II
site assessments and prepare a corrective action
plan for the former Fairbanks City landfill located
at 1980 Second Avenue.
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 10 Brownfields Team
(206)553-7299
EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
(http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CL
EANUP.NSF/sites/bf)
Grant Recipient: Fairbanks North Star
Borough,AK
(907) 459-1351
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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Protection Agency	Response (5105T)	May 2005
Washington, DC 20450	Kesponse (si us )

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