O - Brownfields 2022 Revolving Loan Fund Grant Fact Sheet

Columbia Pacific Economic Development District of Oregon

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 Columbia Pacific Economic Development District
of Oregon for a Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grant. The
grant will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from which the
Columbia Pacific Economic Development District will provide loans and
subgrants to support cleanup activities. Grant funds also will be used to
market the fund and support community outreach activities. RLF
activities will focus on the Cities of St. Elelens, Garibaldi, Cornelius, and
Tongue Point, all located within the Columbia Pacific service region.
Priority sites include a 60-acre area dotted with blighted vacant
structures that is adjacent to a former military base, an 81-acre former
wood veneer processing plant and lumber mill, a former dry dock, and a
vacant gas station.

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: Columbia Pacific Economic Development District of

Oregon, OR

(971)328-2877

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-22-217
May 2022

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