^ \ Brownfields 2016 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
USE, | River Hills Economic Development District and Regional Planning
Commission, Southern Indiana
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 cleanup and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this 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.
Assessment Grant
$375,000for hazardous substances
$175,000for petroleum
EPA has selected River Hills Economic Development District and
Regional Planning Commission for a brownfields assessment coalition
grant. Community-wide hazardous substances grant funds will be used
to conduct 15 Phase I and 11 Phase II environmental site assessments.
Community-wide petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct seven
Phase I and five Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant funds of
both types also will be used to inventory sites, and support cleanup
planning and community outreach activities. Coalition partners are the
south-central Indiana counties of Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, and
Washington.
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 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-3009
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-illinois-ind
iana-michigan-minnesota-ohio-and)
Grant Recipient: River Hills Economic Development District and
Regional Planning Commission, IN
(812)288-4624
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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