Transcript Keweenaw Bay Indian Community

Sand Point Cleanup Project
No Economic Benefits in Your
Tribal Grant Proposal? No
Problem!
Katherine Kruse
Environmental Response Program Specialist
Brownfields Conference Monday, April 4th 2011
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
• 56,698 acres
• 3,450 enrolled
members
• 80 miles of rivers
• 3,000 acres of
wetlands
• 160 lakes and ponds
• 17 miles of Lake
Superior shoreline
• Rural community
• Largely forested land
EPA’s Brownfields Program
“Provide funds to empower states,
communities, tribes, and nonprofits to
prevent, inventory, assess, clean up,
and reuse brownfield sites.”
Brownfields Funding for Tribes
• Tribal Response Program Grants
• Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Program
• Environmental Workforce Development and Job
Training
• Revolving Loan Fund Pilot/Grants
• Targeted Brownfields Assessment
• Assessment Grants
• Cleanup Grants
Cleanup Grant Application
• Community Need (15 pts)
- health, welfare, & environment
- financial need
• Project Description & Feasibility of Success (40 pts)
- project description
- budget & leveraging of other resources
- programmatic capabilities & past performance
• Community Engagement & Partnerships (15 pts)
- plan for involving community
- partnerships
-description/role of key community organizations
Cleanup Grant Application
• Project Benefits (30 pts)
- welfare and/or public health
- economic benefit and/or other non-economic benefits
- environmental benefits from infrastructure
reuse/sustainable reuse
- tracking and measuring progress
• Other Factors
- distribution between urban and non-urban areas
- distribution between 10 EPA regions
- distribution between new and previous grant recipients
- whether the applicant is a federally recognized Indian tribe
or United States territory
Sand Point Project
Before
After
Sand Point Project
• Copper mining thrived from 1860-1930
• Rock was crushed and the copper was separated by a
floatation process
• Stamp sands are the leftover finely-crushed rock
• From 1901-1919 the Michigan Mill disposed of
roughly six billion pounds of stamp sands into Lake
Superior
• Coastal currents transported the sands to their
present-day location at Sand Point
• Copper, mercury, and arsenic contamination in the
groundwater, surface water, and sediments
$ Funding Sources $
ASSESSMENT
• $200,000 Brownfields Pilot Project Assessment Grant (2001)
CLEANUP
• $200,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant -- $40,000 KBIC match
• $100,000 Great Lakes Commission Grant -- $33,500 KBIC match
• $70,000 EPA 128a Brownfields Response Program Funds
REDEVELOPMENT
• $20,000 USDA Wildlife Habitat Improvement Project -- $2,000 KBIC match
• $12,500 MDEQ Coastal Management Program -- $12,500 KBIC match
(Lighthouse restoration feasibility study)
• Great Lakes Restorative Initiative Grant – Additional stamp sand cover
Sand Point Grant Application Highlights
• Community Need
- low income and high unemployment
- health risks and social issues
- cultural and recreational resource
- lake front property
Sand Point Grant Application Highlights
• Project Description &
Feasibility of Success
- leveraging additional
resources
- >30 grants from
foundation, state and
federal sources
- assessment, QAPP,
cleanup scenarios, &
reuse plan
Sand Point Grant Application Highlights
• Community Engagement & Partnerships
- Sand Point Task Force
- Information in newspaper and Tribal newsletter
- public meeting for KBIC Elders, Tribal Council &
Community
- partnerships with local governments and organizations
Community Concerns/Wants
Quiet areas for
meditation & wildlife
viewing
•
• Preservation of
burial mounds
• Lighthouse
restoration
•Walking trails
Interpretive signs
regarding site
history
•
• Limit vehicular
access
• More picnic areas
with restrooms
• Low
impact/ceremonial
use
Sand Point Grant Application Highlights
• Project Benefits
- soil cap & vegetation reduce human exposure
- stabilize stamp sands to improve sediment and surface
water quality
- contribute to the larger restoration of the property by
minimizing human & wildlife exposure & improve
environmental quality & aesthetics
- improve the 2.5 miles of shoreline which was unusable
- create 45 acres of greenspace & contribute to
preservation of adjacent green wetlands and mixed
forest
- use of & improvement of existing roads, municipal
water, sewer & electric