Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Ml

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

$500,000

EPA has selected the Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce
Foundation in the City of Muskegon for a Brownfields Assessment
Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct a total of
eight Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments and develop
eight cleanup plans. Grant funds also will be used to update an inventory
of brownfield sites and conduct community engagement activities. Hie
target areas for this grant are the City of Muskegon's
Shoreline-Downtown Region and the Heights Broadway Avenue
Corridor. Priority sites include the former Sappi Pulp Paper Mill, the
former Amoco Oil terminal, the former vacant Laboratory Furniture
Manufacturing site, the former Lift-Tech International site, the former
Bennett Pump site, and the former dry cleaner at 2536 Peck Street.

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: Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

Foundation, MI

(231)722-3751

Tire information presented in this fact sheet comes from the grant
proposal; EPA cannot attest to tire 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-22-148
May 2022

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