Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

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

$2,000,000

EPA has selected the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
for a Brownfields Community-wide Assessment Grant for States and
Tribes. Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 25 Phase I
and a minimum of 10 Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant
funds also will be used to develop 11 cleanup and reuse plans and
support community outreach activities. The target area for this grant is
the City of Laramie, Sweetwater County, and Carbon County. Priority
sites include several abandoned industrial manufacturing areas, former
mine-energy peripheral areas, two vacant hotels, and several salvage
yards and junkyards.

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)312-6706

EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r8)

Grant Recipient: Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, WY
(307) 777-2948

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-22-281
May 2022

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