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Brownfields 2017 Area-Wide Planning Grant Fact Sheet
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. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and
communities around the country clean up and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through competitive grant
programs for brownfields site assessment, site cleanup,
revolving loan funds, area-wide planning, and job training.
Additional funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program
EPA's Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program assists communities in responding
to local brownfields challenges,
particularly where multiple brownfield
sites are in close proximity, connected by
infrastructure, and limit the economic,
environmental and social prosperity of
their surroundings. This program enhances
EPA's core brownfields assistance
programs by providing grant funding to
communities so they can perform the
research needed to develop an area-wide
plan and implementation strategies for
brownfields assessment, cleanup, and
reuse. The resulting area-wide plans
provide direction for future brownfields
area improvements that are protective of
public health and the environment,
economically viable, and reflective of the
community's vision for the area.
Project Description
$200,000.00
EPA has selected the City of Orem as a
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant recipient.
The city will work with the community and other
stakeholders to develop an area-wide plan and
implementation strategy for studying the Geneva
Road Area (GRA), which has been an important
industrial corridor and employment center for the
city and Utah County since the 1940s. The major
goal of this area-wide project is to create a
community-driven vision and master plan for the
renewal of the GRA to improve the health, safety,
environmental quality, employment opportunities,
transportation options, and business development
of the GRA. It will include the completion of
market studies for the Rocky Mountain Power
catalyst site, other apparent brownfield sites, and
other parcels in the GRA. Key partners who will
work with the city on this project include the Utah
Department of Environmental Quality, Utah
Valley University, Economic Development
Corporation of Utah, Mountainland Association
of Governments, and Utah County Board of
Health.
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)312-6184
EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-region-8 )
Grant Recipient: City of Orem, UT
(801)229-7055
Hie 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.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-17-001P
January 2017

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United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-17-001P
January 2017

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