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| Brownfields 2015 Area-Wide Planning Grant Fact Sheet
Dubuque, IA
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 Dubuque 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 the 33-acre South
Port area. South Port has experienced a steady
industrial decline over the past 40 years, and some
of the industrial facilities in the area have been
abandoned for decades. The neighborhood suffers
from serious income inequality and economic
disparities. Its poverty rate of 36 percent is more
than twice that of the city, and the per capita
income of $16,130 is lower than state and
national averages. The project will include a
charrette to gather community input, development
of a marketing analysis, completion of an
infrastructure needs assessment, preparation of an
area-wide land use plan, a detailed
implementation strategy, and an ongoing outreach
campaign. The goal is to redevelop the South Port
as a new downtown mixed-use neighborhood,
where people can reconnect with the Mississippi
River in a walkable, transit-oriented environment.
Key partners who will work with the city on this
project include the Community Foundation of
Greater Dubuque, the Greater Dubuque
Development Corporation, the East Central
Intergovernmental Association, the Dubuque Area
Chamber of Commerce, Project Concern, the
Northeast Iowa Community College, the Iowa
Initiative for Sustainable Communities, and the
Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional
grant information, brownfields news and events, and publications and
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-15-016
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links, visit the EPA Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 7 Brownfields Team
(800)223-0425
EPA Region 7 Brownfields Web site
(https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-iowa-kansas-
missouri-nebraska-and-nine-tribal)
Grant Recipient: City of Dubuque, IA
(563) 589-4393
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.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
Solid Waste
EPA 560-F-15-016
March 2015

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