I jBt; | Brownfields 2006 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Boston, MA
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 Boston was selected to receive two
brownfields assessment grants. Boston (population
589,141) has been a center of commerce and industrial
manufacturing for over 200 years. The city has targeted
four neighborhoods for assessment activities: Roxbury,
Hyde Park, East Boston, and Dorchester. These areas
have minority populations ranging from 39 to 87 percent,
and poverty rates ranging from 10.4 to 27.1 percent. Two
of the neighborhoods are located in a federally designated
Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community. The city
has 2,000 brownfields parcels in its inventory that are
typically in lower-income communities. In the four target
neighborhoods, brownfields inhibit redevelopment and
growth through actual or perceived environmental
contamination. The city has acquired a number of
abandoned commercial parcels in these areas through tax
foreclosure and intends to work with the communities to
determine cleanup and reuse priorities. The revitalized
brownfields will be used for commercial and industrial
purposes. Brownfields redevelopment will create jobs,
mitigate environmental hazards, increase the tax base,
generate new businesses, and promote economic
revitalization.
Assessment Grants
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the City of Boston for two
brownfields assessment grants. Hazardous
substances and petroleum grant funds will be used
to conduct Phase I and II environmental site
assessments, community outreach, and site
prioritization in the Boston communities of
Roxbury, Hyde Park, East Boston, and Dorchester.
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 1 Brownfields Team
(617) 918-1424
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/regionl/bro wnfields )
Grant Recipient: City of Boston,MA
(617)635-0103
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 2006
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