Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
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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.

Assessment Grant

$400,000

EPA has selected the Will County Center for Economic Development for
a Brownfields Assessment Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be
used to inventory sites and conduct 15 Phase I and eight Phase II
environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to develop
four cleanup plans and four community visioning sessions, and to support
community outreach activities. The target area for this grant is the Des
Plaines River Corridor in the Cities of Joliet, Lockport, and Rockdale.
Priority sites include an 8-acre floodplain site that has been used as a
junkyard and auto salvage facility for decades and is now abandoned, a
building in disrepair that was once used for metal fabrication and
automobile repair, and an abandoned 14-acre site that has operated since
the 1930s as a supply storage yard, truck service facility, auto body shop,
and truck and car sales.

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: Will County Center for Economic Development, IL
(815)723-1800

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-22-102
May 2022

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