Brownfields News and Events Archive - 2000

Note: This information is provided for reference purposes only. Although the information provided here was accurate and current when first created, it is now outdated.

• Announcements, Press Releases, and Speeches
• Meetings and Deadlines
• Reports and Documents

Announcements, Press Releases, and Speeches

• Outreach Memo to RCRA Community - "Round 2 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Brownfields Pilots: Application Guidelines, Selection Process, and Criteria"
  
  Memorandum
  [ HTML (6K) | PDF (272K) 2 pages ]
  December 22, 2000
  
  
• Memo to EPA Regional Policy Managers - "Upcoming CY2001 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Brownfields Pilots: Application Guidelines, Selection Process, and Criteria"
  
  Memorandum
  [ HTML (16K) | PDF(924K) 5 pages ]
  December 22, 2000
  
  
• Outreach Document -- "Frequently Asked Questions: EPA's RCRA Brownfields Prevention Initiative Pilots" Questions and Answers
  [ HTML (14K) | PDF (20K) 6 pages ]
  
  For more information, visit our Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Brownfields Initiative page.
  
  

• EPA announces nine new Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots
  
  
  • Press Release
    [HTML (21K) | PDF (15K) 4 pages]
    December 21, 2000
  
  
• Brownfields Showcase Communities
  In October 2000, 12 Showcase Communities were designated. They include nine federally designated Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities, four small/rural communities, two tribes, and one Base Realignment and Closure Community (BRAC).
  • Brownfields Showcase Communities Fact Sheet
    [HTML (11K) | PDF (189K 4 pages)]
    Publication Number: EPA 500-F-00-240
    October 2000

  • Press Release
    [HTML (5K) | PDF (8K 1 page)]
    October 2000
    
    For more information, visit our Brownfields Showcase Communities page.
  
  
• Housing Secretary Cuomo Announces Grants and Guaranteed Loans: $129 MILLION IN HUD FUNDS TO BRING JOBS, REVITALIZE ENVIRONMENTALLY DISTRESSED AREAS IN 22 U.S. COMMUNITIES
  
  
  • HUD Press Release
    [ HTML (17K) | PDF (17K) 3 Pages ]
    August 11, 2000
  
  
• New US EPA Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots Announced for:
  Clairton, PA; Dearborn, MI; Duquesne, PA; Lehigh County, PA; Luzerne County, PA; McKeesport, PA; Trenton, MI
  July 2000.
  
  
• EPA'S BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM RECOGNIZED AS INNOVATION LEADER
  
  EPA Note to Correspondents
  [ HTML (5K) | PDF (9K) 2 Pages ]
  July 10, 2000
  
  
• Brownfields Showcase Communities - Round 2 Finalists Announced
  
  Finalist List
  [ HTML (2K) 1 Page]
  June 5, 2000
  
  For more information, visit our Brownfields Showcase Communities page
  
  
• VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES OVER $35 MILLION IN BROWNFIELDS GRANTS TO REVITALIZE CONTAMINATED PROPERTIES
  

• White House Press Release
  [ HTML (5K) | PDF (9K) 2 Pages ]
  May 18, 2000
  

• White House Press Fact Sheet
  [ HTML (58K) | PDF (19K) 6 Pages ]
  May 18, 2000
  
  
• Fifty-six New US EPA Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots Announced
  [ HTML (11K) | PDF (11K) 3 Pages ]
  May 2000
  
  For more information and fact sheets on these pilots, visit the Brownfields Pilots/Grants page
  
  
• Thirty New US EPA Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots Announced
  [ HTML (4K) | PDF (143K) 1 Page ]
  May 2000
  
  For more information and fact sheets on these pilots, visit the Brownfields Pilots/Grants page.
  

• Sixteen New US EPA Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots Announced
  
  [ HTML (4K) | PDF (5K) 1 Page ]
  May 2000
  
  For more information and fact sheets on these pilots, visit the Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots page.
  

• Vice President Gore Awards Supplemental Assistance to Communities for Assessment Demonstration Pilots.
  
  White House Press Release
  [ HTML (13K) | PDF (9K) 3 Pages ]
  April 12, 2000

EPA Presents Philadelphia $150,000 for Brownfields
EPA Region 3 Press Release
[ HTML (6K)]
April 11, 2000

EPA AWARDS $200,000 GRANT FOR STOCKTON WATERFRONT RENEWAL PROJECT; SECTION OF STOCKTON CHANNEL HIDDEN FOR 50 YEARS WILL SOON EMERGE
EPA Region 9 Press Release
[ HTML (8K)]
April 11, 2000

Alphabetical List of Pilots Awarded

For more background information, view on the Supplemental Assistance Award Guidelines.

• Solicitation of Statements of Interest from Communities Interested in Being Designated as Brownfields Showcase Communities
  
  Press Advisory
  [ HTML (10K) | PDF (159K) 2 pages]
  March 16, 2000
  
  Federal Register Notice
  Deadline: April 17, 2000
  [ HTML (10K) | PDF (159K) 2 pages]
  March 16, 2000
  
  For more information, visit the Showcase Community page.
  
  Federal Register Notice
  [ HTML (13K) | PDF (16K) 8 pages]
  March 15, 2000
  For more information, visit the Showcase Community page.
  
  
• Four Brownfields Prevention Initiative Pilots Chosen
  
  Press Advisory
  [ HTML (10K) | PDF (159K) 2 pages]
  March 16, 2000
  
  Fact Sheet-RCRA/Brownfields Prevention Pilots
  [ HTML (13K) | PDF (15K) 2 pages]
  Publication Number: EPA 500-F-00-058
  March 2000

Meetings and Deadlines

• December 18, 2000 - Deadline for Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Applications
  
  For more information, visit Brownfields Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund Pilots.
  
  
• October 11 - 13, 2000 - Brownfields 2000 Conference
  Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey

  For more Information visit the Brownfields 2000 Web Site, http://www.brownfields2002.org/proceedings2000/

  Presented by The Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania
  Co-Sponsored by EPA and Others
  Information on Previous Brownfields Conferences



• March 3, 2000 - Job Training and Development and Demonstration Pilot Application Deadline
  The Environmental Protection Agency will begin accepting applications for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots through March 3, 2000. The application period will close March 3, 2000 and the Agency intends to competitively select ten Pilots by May, 2000.

  For more information, visit the Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilot Application page.
  

• Feb. 16, 2000 - EPA Expects to Fund 50 New Brownfields Pilots in 2000
  EPA is accepting proposals for the National Brownfields Assessment Pilots which are each funded up to $200,000 over two years. EPA expects to select 50 National brownfields assessment pilots by April 2000. All applications must be postmarked no later than Feb. 16, 2000.

  For more information, visit our Brownfields Application Information page.
  
  

• January 8, 2000 - Deadline for Supplemental Assistance for Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots Applications
  
  For more information, visit Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots.
  
  

Reports and Documents

• Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Marketing Guide and Tool Kit
  [ PDF (1,244K) 64 pages ]
  Publication Number: EPA 500-R-00-006
  May 2000