Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

Mount Rogers Planning District Commission, VA

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 brownfield sites. Under this
law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through five competitive grant programs: Multipurpose Grants,
Assessment Grants, Revolving Loan Fund Grants, Cleanup
Grants, and Environmental Workforce Development and Job
Training Grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to
state and tribal response programs through a separate
mechanism.

Assessment Grant

$500,000

EPA has selected the Mount Rogers Planning District Commission for a
Brownfields Assessment Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be
used to conduct 10 Phase I and six Phase II environmental site
assessments and prepare six cleanup plans. Grant funds also will be used
to update an inventory of brownfield sites, conduct reuse planning
activities, and conduct community engagement activities. The target area
for this grant is the Mount Rogers Planning District in Southwest
Virginia, which serves the Counties of Bland, Carroll, Grayson, Smyth,
Washington, and Wythe and the independent Cities of Bristol and Galax.
Priority sites include a 4-acre former shoe manufacturing plant in the
Town of Marion, the 5-acre former Bay wood Elementary School in
Grayson County, a 50,000-square-foot former manufacturing facility in
the Town of Damascus, and the 170,000-square-foot former American
Screw factory in the Town of Wytheville, which once manufactured
fasteners for the automobile industry.

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 3 Brownfields Team
(215)814-3406

EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r3)

Grant Recipient: Mount Rogers Planning District Commission, VA
(276)783-5103

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

Land and
Emergency
Management (5105T)

EPA-560-F-22-101
May 2022

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