"The term 'brownfield site' means 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." (from the federal Brownfields Act of 2002) Summary of Brownfields Program Originally begun as an EPA initiative in January 1995, the US EPA National Brownfields Program has since evolved into a collaborative effort involving many federal, state and local partners. In January 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act ("the Brownfields law") was signed. This law expanded potential federal assistance for Brownfields revitalization, including grants for assessment, cleanup, and job training. The law also includes provisions to establish and enhance state and tribal response programs, which will continue to play a critical role in the successful cleanup and revitalization of brownfields. Below is a summary of the US EPA Regionl funding for each of the key Brownfields initiatives. EPA Brownfields Funding in New England: Program Distribution by State (1994 - 2018)* Program CT ME MA NH RI VT Total Assessment Grants $18,082,630 $22,709,017 $38,265,131 $11,364,000 $5,803,000 $17,716,000 $113,939,778 Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants $22,361,645 $23,929,983 $27,085,000 $11,776,790 $7,510,000 $10,702,000 $103,365,418 Cleanup Grants $15,370,533 $13,050,744 $27,688,283 $4,000,000 $10,811,685 $3,675,500 $74,596,745 Job Training Grants $3,940,264 $200,000 $3,630,799 $0 $942,300 $0 $8,713,363 Area-Wide Planning Grants $0 $575,000 $925,000 $0 $200,000 $200,000 $1,900,000 EPA Targeted Assessments $3,770,734 $1,143,843 $7,287,320 $973,083 $781,415 $868,472 $14,824,867 (TBA) State & Tribal Funding $15,680,929 $19,206,825 $21,961,170 $18,464,775 $16,551,789 $10,265,826 $102,131,314 Showcase Communities $300,000 $0 $800,000 $0 $300,000 $0 $1,400,000 Total $79,506,735 $80,815,412 $127,642,703 $46,578,648 $42,900,189 $43,427,798 $420,871,485 Funding totals current as of April 2018 Page 1 of 8 ------- Assessment Grant Program State, tribal, and local governments are eligible to apply for funding to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning and community involvement related to brownfield sites. Applicants may apply for up to $300,000 comprised of a maximum of $200,000 to address sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum) and a maximum of $200,000 to address sites contaminated by petroleum. Coalitions of three or more eligible entities may apply for up to $600,000 and must assess a minimum of five sites. A community-wide proposal is one in which sites are not specifically identified. The performance period of these grants is three years and recipients are selected through an annual national competition. The figures in the table that follows are cumulative totals for all Assessment Grants awarded in New Hampshire since 1994. Assessment Grant Program Recipient Funding Municipalities Central New Hampshire Regional Planning Commission $700,000 Claremont $200,000 Concord $90,000 Lakes Region Planning Commission $1,000,000 Manchester $600,000 Nashua $673,000 Nashua Regional Planning Commission $400,000 New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services $1,550,000 New Hampshire Office of State Planning $400,000 North Country Council of Governments $900,000 Rockingham Planning Commission $1,000,000 Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission $1,000,000 Southwest Region Planning Commission $1,851,000 Southwest Region Planning Commission - Kingsbury Corporation Site $200,000 Strafford Regional Planning Commission $400,000 Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission $400,000 Assessment Grant Program Total: $11,364,000 Funding totals current as of April 2018. Revolving Loan Fund Grant Program State, tribal, and local governments are eligible to apply for funding to capitalize a revolving loan fund (RLF) and to provide subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfields sites. Applicants may apply for $1,000,000 to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances. Two or more eligible entities may team together to form a coalition to pool their revolving loan funds. Revolving loan funds generally are used to provide no-interest or low-interest loans for brownfields cleanups. An RLF grant recipient may also use up to 50% of the funds to provide subgrants to other eligible entities, including nonprofit organizations, for brownfields cleanups on sites owned by the subgrantee. A grant recipient cannot subgrant to itself. An RLF grant requires a 20% Page 2 of 8 ------- cost share. The performance period of these grants is five years and recipients are selected through an annual national competition. The figures in the table that follows are cumulative totals for all Revolving Loan Fund Grants awarded in New Hampshire since 1994. Revolving Loan Fund Program Recipient Funding Capital Regional Development Council $1,800,000 Nashua $1,500,000 New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services $4,401,790 Regional Economic Development Center of Southern NH $1,625,000 State of New Hampshire $2,450,000 Revolving Loan Fund Program Total: $11,776,790 Funding totals current as of April 2018. Cleanup Grant Program State, tribal, local governments and nonprofits are eligible to apply for funding to carry out cleanup activities at Brownfields sites that they own. Applicants may apply for $200,000 per site to address sites contaminated by petroleum and/or hazardous substances. Cleanup grants require a 20% cost share. Eligible applicants must own the site for which it is requesting funding in order to qualify. The performance period of these grants is three years and recipients are selected through an annual national competition. The figures in the table that follows are cumulative totals for all Cleanup Grants awarded in New Hampshire since 2003. Cleanup Grant Program Recipient Site Funding Municipalities Berlin Burgess School/Notre Dame High School $200,000 Bristol Mica Building, 8 Central Street $200,000 Concord Allied Leather Tannery - Lot 1 $200,000 Allied Leather Tannery - Lot 2 $200,000 Allied Leather Tannery - Lot 3 $200,000 Durham Craig Supply Site, Depot Street $200,000 Depot Road Site $200,000 Franklin Guay's Garage, 599-601 South Main Street $200,000 Hillsborough Woods Woolen Mill, 23/25 West Mill Street $200,000 Jaffrey Elite Laundry, 4 Laundry Road $200,000 Elite Laundry, 6 Laundry Road $200,000 Elite Laundry, 10 Laundry Road $200,000 Keene Perkins Machine Shop Property, 92 & 110 Water Street $200,000 Page 3 of 8 ------- Recipient Site Funding Municipalities Nashua 76 Temple Street $200,000 The Boiler House, 90 Pine Street Extension $200,000 Raymond Former Rex Leather Tannery - Lot 43, Corner of Old Manchester Road & Wight Street $200,000 Former Rex Leather Tannery - Lot 120, Corner of Old Manchester Road & Wight Street $200,000 Somersworth Breton Cleaners, 1 Winter Street $200,000 Tilton Ernie's Auto Sales, 180 East Main Street $200,000 Non-Profit Organizations Berlin - Tri- County Community Action Program Brown Co. R&D Site, 912 Main Street $200,000 Cleanup Grant Program Total: | $4,000,000 Funding totals current as of April 2018. Job Training Grant Program State, tribal, local governments and non-profits are eligible to apply for funding to assist residents of communities impacted by Brownfields take advantage of jobs created by the assessment and cleanup of brownfields. Applicants may apply for $200,000 and must be located within or near a Brownfields Assessment Grant community The Job Training Grant Program's goals are to prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental field and to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites contaminated with hazardous substances. The performance period of these grants is two years and recipients are selected through an annual national competition. Area-Wipe Planning Grants State, tribal, local governments and nonprofits are eligible to apply for funding to develop Brownfields Area-Wide Plans and specific implementation strategies for integrating the cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites into neighborhood revitalization efforts. Applicants may apply for up to $200,000 to conduct research, technical assistance and training that will result in an area-wide plan and implementation strategy for key brownfield sites, which will help inform the assessment, cleanup and reuse of these properties and promote area-wide revitalization. Funding is directed to specific areas, such as a neighborhood, downtown district, local commercial corridor, or city block, affected by a single large or multiple brownfield sites. The performance period of these grants is two years and recipients were selected through a national competition in 2010, 2013 & 2015. Targeted Brownfields Assessments (TBA) One of EPA's non-grant programs is the Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) Program. TBAs are conducted by an EPA contractor on behalf of municipalities or non-profits. This is a "grant of services" where an EPA contractor performs the site assessment. The purpose of a TBA is to minimize the uncertainties associated with actual or perceived Page 4 of 8 ------- contamination that complicates the redevelopment of vacant or underutilized properties. The average value of these assessments is $100,000. There is usually one round of selections per year and applications are accepted at any time. The Brownfields Law expanded the TBA program's eligible sites to also include those contaminated solely by petroleum products. Call Alan Peterson at (617) 918-1022 for more information. Below is a summary of the sites and amount of TBA funding received in New Hampshire since 1997. EPA Targeted Brownfield Assessments Recipient Site Funding Colebrook News & Sentinel Building, 6 Bridge Street $49,490 Vic's Getty, 125 Main Street $12,001 127 Main Street & Garage $12,000 Concord Amazon Realty Lot 1, East Street $74,583 Durham Craig Supply Co., Depot Road $70,409 Franklin J.P. Stevens Mill, East Bow Street $8,697 Ferrari Mill, 93 Memorial Street $150,000 Hudson Zack's Field, 12 School Street $104,098 Keene - Monadnock Economic Dev Corp Old Keene Landfill $116,685 Laconia Blood Building $55,300 Londonderry Lamont Labs, 6 Perimeter Road $30,954 Milton Former Tannery Site (Milton Mills), Walter Street $165,300 Newport Ambargis Mill, 8 Greenwood Road $116,748 Sutton Henry's Tire Property, Route 114 $6,818 EPA Targeted Brownfields Assessments Total: $973,083 Funding totals current as of April 2018. State & Tribal Brownfields Funding States and tribes play a significant role in identifying, cleaning up and redeveloping brownfield properties. EPA provides up to $50 million annually in grants to states and tribes to establish or enhance their response programs that address the assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfields. States and tribes can use this funding to establish or expand voluntary cleanup programs, perform environmental assessments and cleanups, capitalize a cleanup revolving loan fund, purchase environmental insurance, establish or maintain a public record of sites, oversee cleanups, and to conduct site specific activities. Below is a summary of the amount of funding received in New Hampshire since 1994. Page 5 of 8 ------- State & Tribal Brownfields Funding State Funding Recipient Year Funding New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Pre-Law $2,159,631 2003 $1,034,031 2004 $1,112,426 2005 $1,144,936 2006 $1,185,519 2007 $1,197,474 2008 $1,195,000 2009 $1,135,250 2010 $1,109,097 2011 $1,003,733 2012 $936,656 2013 $906,391 2014 $916,391 2015 $867,181 2016 $867,181 2017 $841,939 2018 $851,939 State Program Total: $18,464,775 Funding total current as of April 2018. State Assessments Recipient Site Berlin Cote Block North, 67 Main Street Fraser Paper Administration Building, 650 Main Street Notre Dame / Burgess School, 411 School Street Pulp and Paper of America, R&D Building, 912 Main Street Bradford Former Naughton Landfill/Autocraft Site Bristol Bristol Micro Factory Center Rogers Property, 72 South Barnstead Road (Route 126) Barnstead Chester LeClair's Garage, 400 Fremont Road Claremont Wainshall Mill Buildings-Monadnock Mills, Water Street Derry Shamrock Cleaners Site, 3 & 5 Railroad Avenue Durham Craig Supply Site, Depot Road Goffstown Upreach Therapeutic Riding Center, 153 Paige Hill Road Greenfield Former East Coast Steel, Route 31 Harrisville Hafford Property, Route 137 Haverhill Woodsville Railyard Henniker Contoocook Valley Paper Hillsborough Woods Woolen Mill, 25 West Mill Street Kemp Property, 21 River Street Jaffrey Elite Laundry, 10 Laundry Road Lebanon Tide Water Oil Site, Railroad Avenue Lempster Former Jolly Farmer Products Site, 929 Route 10 Londonderry Lamont Laboratories Manchester McDowell Property, Bass Island, 310 Second Street Netsch Property, Bass Island, 344 Second Street Page 6 of 8 ------- State Assessments Recipient Site Merrimack Harcros Chemical Site, 441 Daniel Webster Highway Merrimack Industrial Metals, 734-A Milford Route, Rte 101-A Milton Spaulding Composites Lagoon Site, Route 125 Milton Mills Former Greene Tannery Mount Vernon Kaminski Site, Beech Hill Road Nashua Whitney Screw New Boston Robert Riley Property New Ipswich Seppala & Aho Site Newmarket Walker Property, 216 South Main Street 218 South Main Street Carpenters Olde English Greenhouse, 220 South Main Street Mastin Property, 241 South Main Street Northfield Surrette Battery, 401 Eastside Road Nottingham Lee Farm Property, 229 Mill Pond Road Plymouth Kelley's Salvage Yard, 99 Smith Bridge Road Raymond Rex Leathers/Regis Tannery, Old Manchester Road Rochester Advance Recycling Site, 10-16 Wallace Street Salem Granite State Potato Chip, 227 North Broadway Somersworth Breton Cleaners, 1 Winter Street Surry Bedard's Auto Center & General Store Sutton Carnevale Property (Henry's Tire & Wecking), Route 114 Tilton Pillsbury Mill Troy Troy Mills Warner Odd Fellows Hall, 10 Church Street Warren Kenneth Whitcher Sawmill, 155 Lake Tarleton Road Winchester AC Lawrence Leathers, 1 Bridge Street Windsor Brooks Property, 1377 Second New Hampshire Turnpike State Cleanups Recipient Site Durham Craig Supply Site, Depot Road Goffstown Upreach Therapeutic Riding Center, 153 Paige Hill Road Laconia Mechanic Street School, 19 Hawthorne Street Northfield Surrette Battery, 401 Eastside Road Peterborough Wilder Thermometer, Hunt Road Sutton Carnevale Property (Henry's Tire & Wrecking), Route 114 Showcase Communities Showcase Communities were selected as national models demonstrating the benefits of collaborative activity on brownfields. These communities are distributed across the country and vary by size, resources, and community type. A wide range of support from federal agencies including tax incentives were leveraged, depending on the needs of each Showcase Community. An important goal of this program was to develop national models that demonstrate the positive results of public and private collaboration to address brownfields challenges. Showcase Communities were selected through a national competition in 1998 & 2000. Page 7 of 8 ------- EPA New England Brownfielps Program Contacts Brownfields Section Chief John Podgurski, 617-918-1296 oodgurski.iohn(® eoa.gov Brownfields Coordinator Assessment & Job Training Grant Programs Frank Gardner, 617-918-1278 Christine Lombard, 617-918-1305 gardner.frank(® eoa.gov lombard.chris(® eoa.gov Cleanup Grant Program & State Funding Revolving Loan Fund Grant Program Jim Byrne, 617-918-1389 Joe Ferrari, 617-918-1105 bvrne.iames(® eoa.gov ferrari.ioe(® eoa.gov Targeted Brownfields Assessment Program Petroleum, AAI & National Panel Coordinator Alan Peterson, 617-918-1022 Dorrie Paar, 617-918-1432 oeterson.alan(® eoa.gov oaar.dorrie(® eoa.gov Tribal Funding & Historic Preservation Sustainable Development Amy Jean McKeown, 617-918-1248 Jessica Dominguez, 617-918-1627 mckeown.amviean(® eoa.gov dominguez.iessica(® eoa.gov Green Remediation Special Projects Laurie O'Connor, 617-918-1605 Danny Rodriguez, 617-918-1060 oconnor.laurie(® eoa.gov rodriguez.dannv(® eoa.gov Visit: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/brownfields-and-land- revitalization-connecticut-maine-massachusetts-new-hampshire-rhode Page 8 of 8 ------- |