Transcript What is a Brownfield? - West Palm Beach, Florida

What is a Brownfield?
A brownfield is a property, the expansion,
redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential
presence of a hazardous substance,
pollutant, or contaminant.
EPA's Brownfields Program
 EPA's Brownfields Program is designed to empower
states, communities, and other stakeholders in economic
redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields.
 It is estimated that there are more than 450,000
brownfields in the U.S. Cleaning up and reinvesting in
these properties increases local tax bases, facilitates job
growth, utilizes existing infrastructure, takes development
pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and both
improves and protects the environment.
How EPA Empowers Communities to Clean up
and Reinvest in Brownfields
 Assessment Grants
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provides funding for brownfield inventories, planning, environmental
assessments, and community outreach
 Cleanup Grants
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provides direct funding for cleanup activities at certain properties with
planned greenspace, recreational, or other nonprofit uses
 Revolving Loan Fund Grants
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provides funding to capitalize loans that are used to clean up
brownfields
 Job Training Grants
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to bring together community groups, job training organizations,
educators, labor groups, investors, lenders, developers, and other
affected parties to address the issue of providing environmental
employment and training for residents in communities impacted by
Brownfields
EPA Partner HUD and their Activities
Brownfields redevelopment is the vehicle to unearth the development potential
of our urban communities. It is also the means for metropolitan areas to
grow smarter - recycling our Nation's land to promote continued economic
growth while curtailing urban sprawl and cleaning up our environment.
 How HUD helps Redevelop and Remediate Brownfields
 Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)
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benefits low and moderate income persons
prevents or eliminate slums or blight
addresses conditions that present a serious and immediate threat to the health
and safety of the community
Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program
Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI)
Empowerment Zones (EZs) and Enterprise Communities (ECs)
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to build public-private partnerships for sustainable community development
provides businesses tax incentives like tax-exempt bond financing, section 179
expensing, the work opportunity tax credit, and the welfare-to-work tax credit
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Web Links with Additional Information:
http://www.brownfieldsconference.org/en/index.aspx
http://epa.gov/brownfields/index.html
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/bedi/bfieldfinance.cfm
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/brownfields/default.htm
http://www.floridabrownfields.org/