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 Catawba Regional Council of Governments for a
Brownfields Assessment Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be
used to conduct up to 10 Phase I and six Phase II environmental site
assessments and develop six cleanup plans. Grant funds also will be used
to conduct four visioning sessions, develop a Community Involvement
Plan, and conduct other community engagement activities. The target
area for this grant is the Catawba Region with a focus on distressed mill
communities in the Town of Great Falls, the City of Lancaster, and the
census-designated place of Buffalo. Priority sites include three former
textile mills in Great Falls, one of which was also used as a plastic
recycling facility, a 30-acre site former cotton mill in Lancaster that
closed in 2003 and has been vacant since then, and a former mill
complex in Buffalo that consists of four parcels that once housed an
office complex, a powerhouse, an ice factory, a warehouse, a store, and a
bank.

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 4 Brownfields Team
(404) 562-8604

EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r4)

Grant Recipient: Catawba Regional Council of Governments, SC
(803) 327-9041

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)

E PA-560-F-22-239
May 2022

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