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Brownfield Program Grants

Assessment Grants: Assessment grants provide funding for a grant recipient to invento-
ry, characterize, assess and conduct planning and community involvement related to brown-
fields sites. Eligible for governmental entities and coalitions.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-assessment-arants for more information.

Cleanup Grants: Cleanup grants provide funding for a grant recipient to carry out clean-
up activities at brownfields sites. Eligible for governmental entities, coalitions, and nonprofits.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-cleanup-arants for more information.

Job Training Grants: The Brownfields Job Training (JT) Grants allow nonprofits, local
governments, and other organizations to recruit, train, ana place unemployed ana under-em-
ployed residents of areas affected by the presence of brownfield sites. Through the JT Pro-
gram, graduates develop the skills needed to secure full-time, sustainable employment in var-
ious aspects of hazardous and solid waste management and within the larger environmental
field, including sustainable cleanup and reuse, and chemical safety. These green jobs reduce
environmental contamination and build more sustainable futures for communities. (Note: The
former Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Program is now called the
Brownfields Job Training Program.)

•	Visit www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-iob-trainina-jt~grants for more information.

Revolving Loan Fund Grants: Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants provide funding
for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving loan fund and provide sub-awards to carry out
cleanup activities at brownfields sites. Through these grants, EPA strengthens the marketplace
and encourages stakeholders to leverage resources to clean up and redevelop brownfields.
• Visit www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-revolvina-loan-fund-rlf-arants for more
information.

Multi-Purpose Grants: Multipurpose (MP) grants provide funding to carry out a range
of eligible assessment and cleanup activities with a proposed target area, such as a neighborhood
a shared planning area or a census tract.

• Visit www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-multipurpose-arants for more information.

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Before and after images of the Utah Station Grill. EPA remediated the
site by removing eight large underground tanks; conducted a market
analysis; met with local elected officials and the local neighborhood as-
sociation; and developed conceptual site design drawings.

Direct Technical Assistance

Targeted Brownfields Assessment
(TBA): EPA contractor conducts Phase I/II
environmental site assessments, risk assess-
ments, and develops cleanup options and cost
estimates based on potential future use.

•	Contact bvnum.whitney@epa.aov for more
information.

Technical Assistance to Brownfields
Communities (TAB): The TAB program
provides technical assistance to communities
and other stakeholders on brownfields issues
with the goal of increasing the community's
understanding and involvement in brownfields
cleanup and revitalization, and helping to move
brownfields sites toward cleanup and reuse.

•	Visit www.ksutab.org for more information.

Council of Development Finance
Agencies (CDFA): The CDFA Brownfields
Technical Assistance Program is made possible
by a grant from EPA and is intended to provide
technical assistance and resources on brown-
fields redevelopment financing.

•	Visit www.cdfabrownfields.org for more
information.

Groundwork USA: Groundwork USA is a
national organization that engages local busi-
nesses, residents and government officials to
revitalize neighborhoods and transform com-
munity liabilities into community assets.

• Visit www.groundworkusa.org for m ore
information.

RE-Powering America's Land: offers

mapping and screening tools, solar and wind
decision trees, feasibility studies, and fact
sheets.

• Visit www.epa.gov/re-powering for more in-
formation.

Public Infrastructure Coordination
Assessment and Planning Tool: Fo-
cuses on municipal water, wastewater, storm
water, and road infrastructure.

•	Visit www.epa.gov/brownfields/public-
infrastructure-coordination-assessment-and-
planning-tool for more information.

EPA Environmental Finance Cen-
ters: The Environmental Finance Center
(EFC), housed within Wichita State Univer-
sity's Flugo Wall School of Public Affairs, is
one of 10 university-based centers across the
country that provides communities with pro-
fessional training, technical assistance, and
applied research to equip officials in making
sound financial and environmental decisions.

•	Visit www.wichita.edu/academ ics/
fairmount college of liberal arts and
scienres/hugowall/efc for more information.

Brownfields Roadmap: The Brown-
fields Roadmap breaks down brownfields site
investigation and cleanup into an easy to un-
derstand, step-by-step process.

•	Visit www.epa.gov/brownfields/
brownfields-road-map for more information.

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Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities: One- to two-day, targeted techni-
cal assistance to give communities tools to implement smart growth development approaches.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/smartarowth/buildina-blocks-sustainable-communities for more informa-
tion.

Cool & Connected: Helps rural communities use broadband service to revitalize main
streets and promote economic development. Any community representative can apply.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/smartarowth/cool-connected for more information.

Greening America's Communities: Helps cities and towns envision and implement
design strategies for more sustainable communities.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/smartarowth/areenina-americas-communities for more information.

Healthy Places for Healthy People: Helps communities create walkable, healthy, eco-
nomically vibrant places by engaging with their health care facility partners, such as communi-
ty health centers (including Federally Qualified Health Centers), nonprofit hospitals, and other
health care facilities.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/smartarowth/healthv-places-healthv-people for more information.

Local Foods, Local Places: Helps communities develop and implement action plans that
promote local foods and downtown revitalization. Representatives of communities anywhere in
the U.S. are eligible to apply.

•	Visit www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/local-foods-local-places for more informaiton.

Smart Growth Implementation Assistance: Works with public-sector entities that
want to incorporate smart growth techniques into their development. EPA's regional staff iden-
tifies and selects the communities who are provided assistance.

•	Visit www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/smart-growth-implementation-assistance for more
information.

Environmental Justice Small Grants Program: The Environmental Justice Small
Grants Program supportsand empowers communities working on solutions to local environmental
and public health issues. The program is designed to help communities understand and address
exposure to multiple environmental harms ana risks.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/environmentaliustice/environmental-iustice-small-arants-proaram for more
information.

Environmental Education (EE) Grants: Under the Environmental Education Grants
Program, EPA seeks grant proposals from eligible applicants to support environmental education
projects that promote environmental awareness and stewardship and help provide people with the
skills to take responsible actions to protect the environment.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/education/environmental-education-ee-arants for more information.

Superfund Redevelopment
Initiative

Superfund Redevelopment Initiative: This initiative is a
nationally coordinated effort to ensure that EPA and its partners have
an effective process and the necessary tools and information to return
Superfund hazardous waste sites to productive use.

• Visit www.eoa.aov/superfund-redevelopment-initiative for more
information.

Agency for Toxics Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR) Resources

ATSDR Resources: ATSDR provides communities, health ed-
ucators, healthcare providers, and other health professionals with
community environmental health education products. These products
are designed to increase environmental health literacy and address the
positive and/or negative impact that the environment has on human
health.

• Visit www.atsdr.cdc.gov/emes/public for more information.

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EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization /
Office of Land and Emergency Management Resources

EPA Land Revitalization Technical Assistance Regional Projects: era's Land Revitalization program encourages communities to
redevelop and reuse previously contaminated properties sustainably. Use of contractor support provides direct technical assistance to communities
that wish to incorporate sustainable and equitable approaches to their locally-driven land revitalization projects.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-and-land-revitalization-iowa-kansas--missoui i--nebraska-and-nlne-tribal for contacts in Region 7.

Land Revitalization Technical Assistance Area-Wide Planning Regional Projects: era's Land Revitalization Program strives
to restore land and other natural resources into sustainable community assets that maximize beneficial economic, ecological and social uses, and
ensure protection of human health and the environment. Contractor support assists brownfields area-wide planning (BF AWP) grantee communities
to help each grantee work through a specific challenge/barrier that is standing in the grantee's way of implementing their area-wide plan and making
progress toward their revitalization vision.

•	Visit www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-and-land-revitalization-iowa-kansas-missouri-nebraska-and-nine-tribal for contacts in Region 7.

Land Revitalization Program Tools for Communities

PREPARED Workbook: The workbook
guides local decision-makers through a step-
by-step process for determining how to facilitate
reuse of contaminated properties by considering
acquisition and non-acquisition property recov-
ery actions.

•	Visit www.eoa.aov/brownfields/hrownfields-
and-land-revitalization-connecticut-maine-
massachusetts-new-hampshire-rhode#pane-3
for more information.

Community Reuse Property Prioriti-
zation Tool Is designed to help communities
prioritize properties based on a specific reuse
plan.

•	Visit www.eDa.aov/land-revitalization/
communitv-reuse-propertv-prioritization-tool for
more information.

Public Infrastructure Coordination
Assessment and Planning Tool: The

tool is intended to assist communities in identify-
ing opportunities to leverage investments across
systems by taking a more coordinated approach
to infrastructure management.

•	Visit www, epa. aov/sites/production/
files/2015-09/infrastructure-coord-too!. xlsx for
more information,

Brownfields Stakeholder Forum Kit:

Created to help communities design, plan and
conduct forums that bring together groups of
stakeholders to focus on a brownfields project.

•	Visit www, epa, aov/sites/production/
files/2016-09/documents/final final
stakeholder forum toolkit 8.25.2016.pdf for
more information,

Brownfield Revitalization in Cli-
mate-Vulnerable Areas: Drafted by
EPA's technical assistance team, this outlines
nationally applicable examples of relevant reg-
ulatory standards, incentives, and guidelines for
communities to consider as they update their
zoning and subdivision regulations.

•	Visit www.epa.gov/land-revitali7ation/climate-
resilience-Dlannina-tool for more information.

On the Road to Reuse: Residential
Demolition Bid Specification Devel-
opment Tool Helps users anticipate envi-
ronmental issues and concerns with demolition
so they can factor them into the planning and
procurement process.

•	Visit www.ena.aov/sites/production/
files/2013-09/documents/road-to-reuse-
residential-demolitiori-bid-SDecification-201309
pdf for more information,

Deconstruction Rapid Assessment
Tool: This tool enables organizations to triage
building stock slated for demolition. It assem-
bles data that can help prioritize structures for
deconstruction and salvage.

•	Visit www, epa, oov/sites/production/
files/2015-07/docurnents/drat-instructions. odf
for more information,

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Region 7 Contacts

For general questions contact:

David Doyle, U.S. I PA Reqion 7
Phone: 913-551-7667
Email: doyle.david@epa.aov

For legal questions contact:

Kristen Nazar, U.S. EPA Reqion 7
Phone: 913-551-7450
Email: nazar.kristen@epa.aov

Comfort/StatUS Letters: EPA may issue comfort/status letters to ad-
dress the following: status of the site; future anticipated actions at the site;
available liability protections; reasonable steps that a purchaser should take
to stop any ongoing releases and prevent future releases at sites where EPA
has this information; and the status of EPA liens.

Ready for Reuse (RfR) Determinations: EPA may issue an RfR
Determination to affirm that a Superfund site's conditions are protective of
human health and the environment for specific types of uses.

BFPP "Doing Work" Agreements: EPA may enter into a settle-
ment agreement with a Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser (BFPP) who wishes
to perform part or all of a cleanup. The agreement provides for EPA over-
sight and may satisfy part or all of any windfall lien.

Lien Settlements: EPA is willing to enter into negotiations and settle-
ment agreements to resolve lien issues and facilitate reuse.

Discussions: EPA Regional staff is available to talk or meet with pro-
spective purchasers, sellers, lenders, and other stakeholders to discuss the
issues critical to the successful purchase and reuse of contaminated or
potentially contaminated properties. Providing examples of other contam-
inated or potentially contaminated properties that were successfully rede-
veloped and are now in reuse can also reassure local citizens and stake-
holders about revitalization opportunities.

Local Beneficial Effects Case Studies: Using a site specific
approach, these studies gather information focused on reuse, employment
and other beneficial effects. They can obtain detailed information about
economic benefits for every company present on a site, in addition to unique
economic benefits provided by particular uses, such as alternative energy.
The studies are on EPA's Superfund Redevelopment Initiative website
at www.epa.aov/superfund-redevelopment-initiative/redevelopment-
economics-superfund-sites#local

Partial Deletions: While total cleanup of a site may take many years,
many sites on EPA's National Priorities List (NPL) include portions that have
been cleaned up and may be available for productive use. These portions
may be partially deleted from the NPL if EPA makes a determination that
no further cleanup work is required, the state concurs, and necessary
institutional controls are in place. Any person, including individuals,
businesses, entities, states, local governments, and other federal agencies,
may submit a petition requesting a partial deletion. EPA will evaluate the
request and make a determination whether to proceed. A partial deletion
of a portion of a Superfund site from the NPL can help to increase the
site's marketability. PLEASE NOTE: EPA Superfund liens may still apply to
the deleted parcel. More information on partial deletions is available on
EPA's NPL Deletion Guidance and Policy page at www.epa.aov/superfund/
superfund-npl-deletion-auidance-and-policy

More information about many of the tools listed above is available on these
EPA pages:

•	Enforcement Tools that Address Liability Concerns for Brownfields
and Land Revitalization - www.epa.aov/enforcement/enforcement-
tools-address-liability-concerns-brownfields-and-land-revitalization

•	Landowner Liability Protections - www.epa.aov/enforcement/
landowner- liability- protections

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