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

$500,000

EPA has selected the East Central Indiana Regional Planning District for
a Brownfields Assessment Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be
used to update an inventory of brownfield sites and conduct 14 Phase I
and 10 Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be
used to develop seven cleanup plans and support community outreach
activities. Hie target area for this grant is Delaware County, with a focus
on the City of Muncie. Priority sites include a 75-acre former glass
manufacturing facility, a 1.5-acre site housing three contiguous vacant
and blighted buildings and parking lots that are the remnants of a
commercial district that faded during the 1960s, and a 0.5-acre gas
station and auto repair site that has been unused since 1999.

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: East Central Indiana Regional Planning District, IN
(765) 808-1484

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-22-103
May 2022

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