Brownfields 2019 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

^ Colorado Springs, CO

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

$450,000for hazardous substances
$150,000for petroleum

EPA has selected the City of Colorado Springs for a Brownfields
Assessment Coalition Grant. Community-wide hazardous substances
and petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct 20 Phase I and 12
Phase II environmental site assessments and prepare four cleanup plans.
Grant funds also will be used to inventory and select sites and conduct
community outreach activities, including the creation of a public
involvement plan and a project website and planning four community
events. Assessment activities will focus on the Shooks Run Creek
Corridor and the Fountain Creek Corridor. Coalition partners are the City
of Fountain, Colorado Springs School District #11, and Colorado
Springs Utilities.

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 8 Brownfields Team
(303)312-7074

EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-region-8 )

Grant Recipient: City of Colorado Springs, CO
(719)385-5465

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-19-063
June 2019

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