I w 1 Brownfields 2022 Cleanup Grant Fact Sheet

Fort Belknap Indian Community, MT

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.

Cleanup Grant

$500,000

EPA has selected the Fort Belknap Indian Community for a Brownfields
Cleanup Grant. Grant funds will be used to clean up a former school in
Lodgepole, a former Water Treatment Plant and the Sacred Heart
Catholic School in Harlem, and the Old Agency Dump on the Fort
Belknap Indian Reservation. The former Lodgepole School is a vacant
16,225-square-foot building contaminated with metals and inorganic
contaminants. The former Water Treatment Plant was closed in 2010 and
is a vacant 3,750-square-foot building. There are vault tanks and drums
inside and near the building containing known and unknown chemicals.
The Sacred Heart Catholic Church is a 3,322-square-foot building
contaminated with inorganic contaminants. The Old Agency Dump is a
24-acre site that became an unofficial dump for debris such as concrete,
pipes, and cars after its closure in the 1980s; its soil is contaminated with
organic contaminants. Grant funds also will be used to conduct
community involvement activities.

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: Fort Belknap Indian Community, MT
(406) 353-8429

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)

EPA-560-F-22-165
May 2022

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