&EPA

United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

Brownfields 2017 Assessment Fact Sheet

Plumas County Community Development Commission,
CA

Grant Recipient Information

Name: Plumas County Community Development
Commission

Phone: 530-283-2466 ext 115

Publication Information

Office:	United States Environmental

Protection Agency
Land and Emergency
Management (5105T)
Washington, D.C. 20460

Publication
Number:
Publication
Date:

EPA 560-F-17-101
May 2017

EPA Information

Region: EPA Region 9 Brownfields Team
Phone: 415-972-3846

Website: https://www.epa.aov/brownfields/brownfields-and-
land-revitalization-epa-reaion-9

Overview of the 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. In 2002, the Small Business
Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and communities around
the country cleanup and revitalize brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through four competitive grant programs: assessment grants,
revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.

Assessment Grant

$200,000 for hazardous substances

EPA has selected the Plumas County Community Development Commission for a brownfields
assessment grant. Site-specific hazardous substances grant funds will be used to perform an
ecological risk assessment, conduct a soil characterization, and develop cleanup plans for the
Crescent Mills, former LP Mill site at 15690 Highway 89 in Crescent Mills. The 28-acre site was
formerly a sawmill, operating until its closure in the mid-1980s. Grant funds also will be used to
support community outreach activities.

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).


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The information presented in this fact sheet comes from the grant application; EPA cannot attest to

the accuracy of the information. The cooperative agreement is negotiated after the selection
announcement. Therefore, the funding amount and activities described in this fact sheet are subject

to change.


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