United States
Environ menial Protection
LI M % Agency

Brownfields 2017 Assessment Fact Sheet

Yreka,	CA

Grant Recipient Information	Publication information

Name: City of Yreka
Phone: 530-841-2386

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

$300,000 for hazardous substances
$300,000 for petroleum

EPA has selected the City of Yreka for a brownfields assessment coalition grant. Community-wide
hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct 15 Phase I and eight Phase
II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to develop eight cleanup plans,
inventory sites, and support community involvement and area-wide planning activities. Assessment
activities will focus on underutilized and abandoned properties in the Cities of Yreka and Weed, and
Siskiyou County. Coalition partners are the City of Weed and Siskiyou County.

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).

Office:	United States Environmental

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

Publication

Number: EPA 560-F-17-172
Publication

Date:	May 2017

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


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announcement. Therefore, the funding amount and activities described in this fact sheet are subject

to change.


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