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Brownfields and Land Revitalization
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfield sites. 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. The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002, as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development Act of 2018, was passed to help states and communities around the country clean up and revitalize brownfield sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through five competitive grant programs: Multipurpose Grants, 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.
$1,500,000
EPA has selected Greene County to lead a Brownfields Assessment Coalition Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be used to inventory sites and conduct 28 Phase I and 10 Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to develop six cleanup plans, one resource roadmap, and two area-wide plans, and to support community engagement activities. Assessment activities will focus on the Villages of Catskill and Tannersville, and the City of Hudson. Priority sites include a 1.2-acre vacant lot that formerly housed a bricklaying facility and a knitting mill, a 9.5-acre former fuel storage site, a 0.68-acre site that housed a fuel terminal and was demolished in the 1970s, a 4-acre former industrial site, a 1-acre lot used for a vehicle maintenance garage, and a 0.4-acre site used for automobile repair from 1938 until the early 2000s. Non-lead coalition members include Choose Columbia and Hunter Foundation, Inc.