Brownfields 2018 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

Regional Planning Commission, New Orleans, LA

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. The Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002, as amended by the
Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development
Act of 2018, 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 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

$360,000for hazardous substances
$240,000for petroleum

EPA has selected the Regional Planning Commission for a brownfields
assessment coalition grant. Community-wide hazardous substances grant
funds will be used to conduct six Phase I and six Phase II environmental
site assessments, and prepare three cleanup plans. Community-wide
petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct four Phase I and four
Phase II environmental site assessments, and prepare two cleanup plans.
Grant funds of both types also will be used to support community
outreach events. Assessment activities will focus on the Inner Harbor
Navigation Canal Corridor. Coalition partners are the Port of New
Orleans and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

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 6 Brownfields Team
(214)665-8358

EPA Region 6 Brownfields Web site
(https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/epa-regi
on-6-south-central-brownfields )

Grant Recipient: Regional Planning Commission, LA
(504)483-8513

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

Land and
Emergency
Management (5105T)

EPA-560-F-18-108
April 2018

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