i Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

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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 Port of Tacoma for a Brownfields Assessment
Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct eight Phase
I and five Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will
be used to develop five reuse plans and support community engagement
activities. Hie target area for this grant is the Tacoma Tideflats
Manufacturing Industrial Center, which is situated at the mouth of the
Puyallup River on Commencement Bay. Priority sites include a 3.5-acre
former fuel storage and distribution site, the port's 244-acre Central
Peninsula site, and a 70-acre cluster of vacant and underutilized
properties in the target area.

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 10 Brownfields Team
(206)553-8511

EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r 10)

Grant Recipient: Port of Tacoma, WA
(253) 383-9459

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)

E PA-560-F-22-267
May 2022

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