Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

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 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for a
Brownfields Community-wide Assessment Grant for States and Tribes.
Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 38 Phase I and 26
Phase II environmental site assessments, and up to 15 cleanup plans.
Grant funds also will be used to prepare a Community Involvement Plan
and conduct community engagement activities. The target areas for this
grant are the Lake Street Corridor, the West Broadway Corridor, the
University Avenue Corridor in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and the City
of Cass Lake. Priority sites are located in old industrial and commercial
corridors and include a former wood-treating plant, a former, vacant
retail store, a former gas station and repair shop, a former railroad
roundhouse, and additional sites that are vacant or dilapidated buildings
with an unknown history.

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 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-5740

EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r5)

Grant Recipient: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, MN
(651)757-2402

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)

EPA-560-F-22-151
May 2022

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