i Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

V^lC£] Denison, IA

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

$400,000

EPA has selected the City of Denison for a Brownfields Assessment
Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 18 Phase I
and 10 Phase II environmental site assessments and develop reuse plans.
Grant funds also will be used to conduct meetings, create a project
webpage, and conduct outreach activities, including translation services
in Spanish. Hie target area for this grant is the City of Denison, a rural
community located along the Boyer River in western Iowa. Priority sites
are largely along a declining industrial corridor and include the former
Denison Municipal Utility Power Plant, Avenue C sites that are severely
blighted, former neighborhood businesses, and a former farm implement
site.

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 7 Brownfields Team
(913)551-7786

EPA Region 7 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r7)

Grant Recipient: City of Denison, IA
(712)263-3143

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-22-114
May 2022

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