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. On January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields 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.
$600,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the A.B. Won Pat Guam International Airport Authority for three brownfields cleanup grants. Hazardous substances grant funds will be used to clean up the following sites: the 5.27-acre POI-3, the former Aircraft Graveyard at the corner of Admiral Sherman Boulevard and Neptune Avenue; OI-6, the former Ground Support Equipment Maintenance Facility on Neptune Avenue; and POI-18, VQ-5 Interceptor Drainage site on Neptune Avenue. The former Aircraft Graveyard is contaminated with volatile organic compounds, arsenic, and chromium. The former Ground Support Equipment Maintenance site consists of two buildings separated by a concrete apron where vehicle parts, machinery, and equipment were stored and parked. It is contaminated with PCBs, arsenic, cadmium, copper, and thallium.The Interceptor Drainage site contained an oil-water interceptor, an oil-water separator, and two large unlined drainage ditches. It is contaminated with volatile organic compounds, arsenic, beryllium, chromium, and manganese. The contaminants have the potential to migrate into Guam's sole source drinking water aquifer. All three sites are part of the former Naval Air Station Agana. Funds for all three sites also will be used for community outreach.