Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

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 Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment for a Brownfields Community-wide Assessment Grant for
States and Tribes. Community-wide grant funds will be used to
inventory and prioritize sites and conduct up to 30 Phase I and 18 Phase
II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to
support community outreach activities and ensure outreach efforts
include sensitive populations. The target areas for this grant include a
former agricultural area around the Cities of Longmont and Lyons, and
the Cities of Cortez, Firestone, and Evans. Priority sites are historic,
vacant commercial and industrial buildings, gas stations, dry cleaners, a
site with abandoned construction equipment and vehicles, and a former
turkey farm that contains 25 abandoned structures.

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: Colorado Department of Public Health and

Environment, CO

(303)692-3404

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-22-064
May 2022

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