E.P.A. Declares $15 Million in Supplemental Funds to Clean up and Redevelop Contaminated Brownfields Sites Across the Country
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Category: Hazardous WasteType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Monday, July 15th, 2013
· The City of Brea, Calif., will use its supplemental backing to clean sections of a former rail line, which will be reused as a rails-to-trails plan for alternative transportation and recreation options.
· Cleanup of a downtown property in Great Falls, Mont., will allow Easter Seals Good Will to move forward with a $2.5 million redevelopment, which will create numerous construction and permanent jobs.
· A loan from the Indiana Finance Authority will go toward cleanup of the former Carpenter Manufacturing site, which will be redeveloped into a business park redevelopment creating approximately 100 jobs.
· The Land-of-Sky Regional Council will use the additional backing for cleanup at the former Chatham Mill in Salem, N.C. Once cleaned, developers project to rehabilitate the 300,000 square foot structure into approximately 150 multifamily rental units.
· In Nassau County, N.Y., funds will be used to address the last un-remediated parcel of Glen Cove's 52 acre waterfront redevelopment area.
There are an estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated sites in the United States. EPA's Brownfields plan targets these sites to encourage redevelopment, and help to provide the opportunity for productive community use of contaminated properties. EPA's Brownfields investments overall have leveraged in excess of $20 billion in cleanup and redevelopment backing from public and private sources and on average, $17.79 is leveraged for every E.P.A. Brownfields grant dollar spent.
The funds have enabled the support of 90,000 jobs in cleanup, construction and redevelopment.
More information on EPA's Brownfields program:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
More information on Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund grants:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/rlflst.htm
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