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.
$400,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the City of Bridgeport for two brownfields cleanup grants. Grant funds will be used to clean up the former Chrome Engineering site, an electroplating and metal grinding facility, and the Mt. Trashmore site, a former trucking terminal and demolition debris storage area. Cleanup work entails site preparation and excavation and disposal of pre-existing structures and contaminated soils. The sites will be redeveloped as part of a broader plan involving infill housing on more than 50 lots in the East End neighborhood of Bridgeport.