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Brownfields
2012 Revolving Loan Fund
Grant
Fact Sheet
Northampton County, PA
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and communities around the country cleanup and revitalize brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through four competitive grant programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
Revolving Loan Fund Grant
$650,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the County of Northampton for a brownfields revolving loan fund grant. The grant will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from which the County of Northampton will provide loans and subgrants to support cleanup activities for sites contaminated with hazardous substances. The county anticipates providing two or three loans and two or three subgrants. Grant funds also will be used for management and community involvement activities.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional grant information, brownfields news and events, and publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 3 Brownfields Team
215-814-3246
EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/bf-lr/)
Grant Recipient: County of Northampton, PA
601-559-3200
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. The cooperative agreement for the grant has not yet been negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.