The Brownfields Program: A Key Factor for Community Redevelopment

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The Brownfields ProgramA Key Factor for
Community Redevelopment

• Community Redevelopment Engines for Economic
  Re-Birth
• St. Thomas, USVI
• August 14, 2007

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The Brownfields Law

• Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
  Revitalization Act

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Brownfield Definition

• A Brownfield is a property, the expansion,
  redevelopment or reuse of which may be
  complicated by the presence of a hazardous
  substance, pollutant or contaminant.

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The Brownfields Program

• Purpose
• To empower states, communities and other
  stakeholders in economic redevelopment by reusing
  brownfields.
• Four goals
• Protecting the human health and the environment
• Promoting partnerships
• Promoting economic redevelopment
• Promoting sustainable reuse

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The Brownfields Program

• The Brownfields Law
• Provides up to 200 million per year for the
  Program.
• Provides grants for assessments, revolving loan
  funds, and direct cleanups.
• Expands the entities, properties, and activities
  eligible for the brownfields grants.
• Expands Program applicability to site with
  petroleum contamination.
• Provides authority for brownfields training,
  research and technical assistance.

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Brownfields Competitive Grants

• Brownfields Assessment Grants
• Hazardous Substances
• Petroleum
• Brownfields Cleanup Grants
• Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants
• Brownfields Job Training Grants

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State, Tribal and Territories Programs

• 128(a) State, Tribal and Territories Response
  Program Grants
• Authorizes up to 50 million per year for
  building and enhancing State, Tribal and
  Territories Response Programs.
• Provides protection from Superfund at sites
  cleaned up under the State Program.

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Superfund Liability Relief

• Clarifies the Superfund liability for
• Prospective Purchasers
• Innocent Landowners
• Contiguous Property Owners
• Provides liability protection for certain small
  volume contributors and contributors of municipal
  solid waste.

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Success Stories

• Emerald Gardens Site, St. Paul, Minnesota

Former Lumber Warehouse, Battery Manufacturing
Facility and Auto Repair Facility
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Success Stories

• Emerald Gardens Site, St. Paul, Minnesota

Emerald Gardens Condos
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Success Stories

• Former Auto Salvage Site, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Drum-reconditioning Facility, a Service Station
and Scrap Yard
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Success Stories

• Former Auto Salvage Site, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Transit Control Center Local Government
Facility
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Success Stories

• Hans Foreign Auto Parts Site, Osseo, Minnesota

Former Auto Salvage Yard, Repair Shop and Auto
Cleaning Business
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Success Stories

• Hans Foreign Auto Parts Site, Osseo, Minnesota

Two Office/Warehouse Buildings
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Success Stories

• Manchester Village Site, Rock Hill, South Carolina

Manchester Garbage Transfer Station
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Success Stories

• Manchester Village Site, Rock Hill, South Carolina

Manchester Cinemas
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Success Stories

• Movable Feast Site, Wilmington, Delaware

Former Painting Business, Warehouse and Office
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Success Stories

• Movable Feast Site, Wilmington, Delaware

Catering Business
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Success Stories

• Pagonis Site, Lewes, Delaware

Former Chicken Production Facility
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Success Stories

• Pagonis Site, Lewes, Delaware

Kings Mill Professional Center
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Questions
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Contact Information

• EPA Region 2 contacts
• Mr. Larry DAndrea, Chief
• Brownfields Section
• 212-637-4314dandrea.larry_at_epa.gov
• Mr. Ramon Torres Region 2 Brownfields
  Coordinator
• 212-637-4319torres.ramon_at_epa.gov