Wide Planning guidelines webinar will be held at 12:00 pm (Mountain Time) or I 1:00 am (Pacific Time). For audio call: 866-299-3 188/code: 202 566 2773 and for the webinar screen enter as a guest here. Improv- ing Community Health through Land Reuse and Re- development Webinar held by the Agency for Toxic Sub- stances and Disease Registry. Sympo- sium: The Role of Green Preservation in Creating and Maintaining Sustainable Com- munities, San Francisco, CA. Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities Grant proposals submission deadline. g EPA Assessment. Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grant pro- posals submission deadline. g EPA Area-wide Planning Grant proposals submission dead- line. | EPA Job Train- ing Grant proposal guidelines will be released. April 30 & May 1,2013: M Registration is now open for the National Brownfields Conference. Atlanta, GA. The WBWire CONNECTING WESTERN BROWNFIELDS EFFORTS AND STAKEHOLDERS U S. EPA REGIONS 8. 9 & 10 FALL 2012 Brownfield \ews Above and right Cooley Landing San Francisco Bay Cooley Landing is a 9-acre peninsula in San Francisco Bay that served as a county dump until 1958. The nearby East Palo Alto community (largely comprised of minority and low-income resi- dents) is turning the vacant peninsula into a nature park that features the city's first public access to San Francisco Bay. The East Palo Alto Redevelopment Agency and the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District used $600,000 in Recovery Act funds from the California Department of Toxic Substances Con- trol's brownfields loan fund and $400,000 in brownfields cleanup grants to conduct a $1 m site cleanup. The project includes a 2-foot soil cap, revegetation using native and drought-tolerant species and the renovation of a 1950s former boat repair shop to create a new 3,125-square-foot education center and community meeting space. The East Palo Alto park opened this summer. Read more about the East Palo Alto park project opening and Cooley Landing. In this Edition of the WBWire: • It's grant season! Find grant and technical support information and training opportunities (p. I). • The Shoshone-Bannock Tribe opens a new state-of- the-art hotel and event center on a former brown- field (p. 2). • Green and affordable senior living in Aurora, Colo- rado (p.2) v>EPA United States Environmental Protection Aaanfiy' WBWire Online Smart Growth Technical Assistance, Phoenix Awards, and Brownfields Grants • Free Technical Assistance for Building Sustainable Communities: Building Blocks for Sus- tainable Communities provides quick, targeted technical assistance designed to help stimulate a dis- cussion about growth and strengthen local capacity to implement sustainable approaches. EPA ap- plication deadline is October 26. 2012: Smart growth deadline is October 25. 2012: Projects for Public Spaces deadline is November 2. 2012: Global Green deadline is November 2. 2012: and Forterra's deadline will be February 201 3. » The Phoenix Awards inspire and recognize exemplary brownfield redevelopment and revitalization. The call for Phoenix Award applications has been extended until December 14, 2012. • EPA has recently released the following requests for Brownfield grant proposals: * Brownfields Assessment. Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund (ARC) Grants - Proposals due November 19, 2012. Need a little guidance with your ARC application? You can listen to the archived grant guideline webinars from this summer. * Brownfields Area-Wide Planning (AWPi Grants - Proposals due November 30. Need a little guidance with your AWP application? Attend the AWP guidelines webinar on October 22, 2012. See Webinar instructions in the green box on the left side of this page. * Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities Grants - Proposals due November 14, 2012. ------- CONNECTING WESTERN BROWNFIELDS EFFORTS AND STAKEHOLDERS p A G Creating a Better Quality of Life for Seniors with the Help of Brownfields Funds in Aurora, Colorado The City of Aurora is making a $250,000 subgrant to the Aurora Housing Authority from its EFA capitalized Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) for asbestos abatement prior to the demolition of the Housing Authority's aging Buckingham Garden Town- homes. The demolition will make way for the new Village at Westerly Creek (225 housing units). The first phase of the project, which includes 55-units of public housing for seniors and people with disabilities, has already been completed and residents started moving in at the end of August. A few of the amenities of the new senior housing includes open space, walking paths, heated sidewalks, community garden plots, energy star appliances, and photovoltaic panels used to light hallways and common areas. In addition to cleanup funding, EPA also conducted a Targeted Brownfields Assessment on the property to help the Housing Authority determine the extent of asbestos containing mate- rials in the building and estimate abatement and disposal costs. Click here to read the Aurora Sentinel's news story on the Village at Village at Westerly Creek, Aurora, Colorado. Top photo is courtesy Westerly Creek Redevelopment. of Eiarchitecture.com. Lower photo is courtesy of Aurora Housing Authority. Doors Open at the New Shoshone-Bannock Hotel and Event Center in Fort Hall, Idaho For years, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe has discussed how to bring much needed jobs to the area. In 2010, the tribe decided job growth could be achieved through the devel- opment of a state-of-the-art hotel and event center that would comple- ment the Fort Hall Casino. Plans for construction were drafted but, be- fore the ground could be broken, developers were faced with the all- too-familiar plague of contamination. The 83-acre development site housed a number of facilities includ- ing a trading post, restaurants, and a variety of clothing and jewelry stores. Additionally, there was an old gas station which had been found to have leaking underground storage tanks. Using funds and assistance from the EPA Brownfields Tribal Response Program, The Shoshone-Bannock Tribe was able to conduct a series of Phase I and Phase II assessments on the properties that cost approxi- mately $ 15,000. Asbestos was found to be the key contaminant of con- cern in 4 of the buildings. A total of nearly $46,000 was used for further sampling and removal of the asbes- tos, which allowed for the subse- quent safe deconstruction of the buildings. With the remaining prop- erty cleared of possible contamina- tion, the site was finally ready for construction to begin in 201 I. The Hotel and Event center, which was funded through private bank loans, cost nearly $50 million to complete. An average of 100 work- ers were employed on site during the 14-month construction period, and a similar number will be em- ployed through the direct operation of the expansive facility. The 164,000 square foot, 5 story hotel boasts 156 rooms, a sports grill, and a 1400- seat event center with meeting, con- ference, and banquet venues. Tribal members see this vast accomplish- ment as just the first phase of the larger Fort Hall Casino expansion. Click on the link and visit your Region's EPA Brownfield Webpage: Region 8. Region 9 & Region 10. ------- |