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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.

Revolving Loan Fund Grant

$1,000,000

EPA has selected the Southeast Idaho Council of Governments (SICOG)
for a Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grant. The grant will be
used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from which the SICOG will
provide six loans and four subgrants to support cleanup activities. Grant
funds also will be used to conduct public meetings, develop fact sheets
and a webpage, and conduct other community outreach activities. RLF
activities will focus on sites in Bingham, Power, Bannock, Caribou,
Oneida, Franklin, and Bear Lakes Counties in southeastern Idaho.

Priority sites include former gas stations, industrial agricultural facilities,
an abandoned polysilicon plant, and historic buildings contaminated with
metals and inorganic contaminants.

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: Southeast Idaho Council of Governments, ID
(208)233-4535

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)

E PA-560-F-22-097
May 2022

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