I JBt | Brownfields 2004 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
V'/ San Jose, CA
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 San Jose was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. The city has 894,943
residents, many of whom live in neighborhoods that lack
sufficient greenspace. The city's economic history
includes both agriculture and industrial operations, leaving
a great potential for brownfields. The community-wide
brownfields assessment will be coordinated with the
Strong Neighborhoods Initiative, which unites the city's
communities, and Greenprint, the city's 20-year strategic
plan for development of parks and community facilities.
Brownfields cleanup is expected to revitalize older,
former industrial areas of the city, and provide open space
to the city's lower-income residents.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected San Jose for a brownfields
assessment grant. Grant funds will be used to
inventory and rank brownfield properties
identified by the city and its Strong
Neighborhoods Initiative. Funds also will be used
to select brownfield properties that could be used
to expand the city's open space, to perform up to
20 Phase I and up to ten Phase II assessments on
the selected sites, and to conduct community
outreach activities.
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 9 Brownfields Team
(415) 972-3091
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region9/bro wnfields )
Grant Recipient: City of San Jose,CA
(408) 794-1302
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)	June 2004
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