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Brownfields 2020 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

Brooke-Hancock Region XI Regional Planning and Development Council,
Weirton and Wellsburg, WV, and Steubenville and Mingo Junction, OH

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

$600,000

EPA has selected the Brooke-Hancock Region XI Regional Planning and
Development Council for a Brownfields Assessment Coalition Grant.
Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 11 Phase I and
eight Phase II environmental site assessments, inventory and select sites
for assessment activities, and develop nine cleanup plans. Grant funds
also will be used to conduct community engagement activities.
Assessment activities will focus on target areas in the Cities of Weirton
and Wellsburg in West Virginia, and the City of Steubenville and Village
of Mingo Junction in Ohio. The target areas in the City of Weirton and
Mingo Junction are located in Qualified Opportunity Zones. Priority sites
include the Frontier Crossings site in Weirton, the JSW Steel USA Ohio
site in Mingo Junction, and the Town Square in Wellsburg. Coalition
partners are the Jefferson County Port Authority and the Business
Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle.

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 3 Brownfields Team
(215)814-3406

EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r3)

Grant Recipient: Brooke-Hancock Region XI Regional Planning and
Development Council, WV
(304) 797-9666

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-20-161
May 2020

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