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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.

Cleanup Grant

$500,000

EPA has selected the City of the Village of Douglas for a Brownfields
Cleanup Grant. Grant funds will be used to clean up the property located
at 200 Blue Star Highway. The cleanup site is a single 7.18-acre parcel
that was formerly a fallow orchard and converted in the 1940s into its
current configuration consisting of two utility buildings and a
150,300-square-foot industrial building with truck bays. The property has
been used for plating, buffing, zinc die casting, metal forming, stamping,
phosphatizing, painting metal parts, and furniture manufacturing and is
contaminated with PCBs, chlorinated volatile organic hydrocarbons, and
inorganic contaminants. Grant funds also will be used to develop a
Community Involvement Plan and conduct community engagement
activities.

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: City of the Village of Douglas, MI
(616)566-9607

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-22-144
May 2022


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