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Brownfields News and Events Archive - 2001

Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.

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

Announcements, Press Releases, and Speeches

• Whitman Applauds Senate Passage of Brownfields Legislation
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    December 21, 2001
    
    
• Administrator Whitman Announces 10 Brownfields Job Training Grants
  Ten new Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots were announced by EPA Administrator Christie Whitman on December 21, 2001.
  
  
  • News Release - Brownfields Communities in Nine States and D.C. Get $2 Million for Job Training
    December 21, 2001
    
    For more information, visit the Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots page.
    
    
• New Cost Study Announced on Six Common Cleanup Technologies
  
  
  • Press Advisory
    EPA Document Number R-151
    September 7, 2001
    
    
• Five RCRA Brownfields Prevention Pilots Chosen
  
  
  • EPA Press Advisory
    August 30, 2001
    
    
  • RCRA Brownfields Prevention Pilots Fact Sheet (PDF) (5 pp, 297K, about PDF)
    August 2001
    
    
  For more information, visit the RCRA Brownfields page.
  
  
• EPA Administrator Whitman Announces $4 Million Pilot Project To Clean up Underground Storage Tank Sites
  
  
  • News Release
    August 23, 2001
    
    
  • Federal Register Notice
    August 23, 2001
    
    
• Administrator Whitman Reaffirms Commitment to Environmental Justice
  EPA Administrator Christine Whitman, in a recent memo to top agency officials, reaffirmed the agency's commitment to environmental justice and its integration into all programs, policies, and activities consistent with existing environmental laws and their regulations.
  
  For more information, see the About Environmental Justice page.
  
  
• National Endowment for the Arts Invites Applicants for New Public Works Program
  The National Endowment for the Arts will make a limited number of grants for design competitions to stimulate excellence in design in the public realm. This initiative is intended to bring institutions from across the country together with the best design talent, to raise the expectations and aspirations for public work, and to increase popular awareness of the importance of design in daily life.
  
  
  • News Release
    August 8, 2001
  
  
  For more information, visit NEA's New Public Works Webpage at:
  http://apps.rgp.ufl.edu/research/fyi/back_issues/v27n11/fyi038.cfm. 
  
  
• Department Of Housing and Urban Development Invites Applications for Seven Urban Empowerment Zones and Forty Renewal Communities
  The Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000 (CRTR Act) authorizes the designation of nine Round III Empowerment Zones (EZs). Seven of the Round III EZs are to be designated in urban areas by the Secretary of HUD. The remaining two Round III EZs are to be designated in rural areas by the Secretary of Agriculture. This Notice invites applications for designation of nominated areas as Empowerment Zones.
  
  
  • Federal Register Notice
    (Vol. 66, No. 139, p. 37877)
    July 19, 2001
  
  Additionally, the CRTR Act authorizes HUD to designate up to 40 Renewal Communities within which special tax incentives would be available. The Notice invites applications for designation of nominated areas as Renewal Communities
  
  
  • Federal Register Notice
    (Vol. 66, No. 152, p. 41432)
    August 7, 2001
  
  For More Information, visit HUD's Initiative for Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities Web site at:
  http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm
  
  
• ATSDR announces availablity of Funds for "Enhancement of State, County or Local Public Health Departments Participation in Brownfields Decisions and Action."
  
  The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2001 funds for a Cooperative Agreement program for a pilot activity with a select number of local health departments to demonstrate effective public health actions around Brownfields properties. This program addresses the "Healthy People 2010" focus area(s) of Environmental Health.
  
  
  • Federal Register Notice
    (Vol. 66, No. 124, p. 34201)
    June 27, 2001

  For more information, view Program Announcement 01126 from Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at: http://www.cdc.gov/page.do

  
  
  
• Official Statements about Passage of Senate Brownfields Legislation S. 350
  
  
  • Statement by The President
    White House Press Release
    April 25, 2001
    
    
  • EPA Press Release
    April 25, 2001

    For more information on this bill, visit the Library of Congress web pages providing Bill Summary & Status for Senate Legislation S. 350.
    
    

• EPA Administrator Whitman Announces $38 Million To Make Abandoned Properties Thrive
  
  
  • EPA Press Advisory, April 20, 2001
    
    
  • List of Assessment Pilot Awards
    
    
  • List of 32 Supplemental Funding Awards for Existing Assessment Demonstration Pilots
    
    
  • List of 25 New US EPA Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots
    
    

Meetings and Deadlines

• December 10, 2001 - Deadline for FY 2002 Assessment Demonstration Pilot Applications
  EPA expects to select up to 38 additional National assessment pilots by April 2002. All proposals must be postmarked by USPS or delivered at U.S. EPA Headquarters by other means, no later than December 10, 2001, and a duplicate copy sent to the appropriate U.S. EPA Regional Office.
  
  
  • Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots (PDF) (22 pp, 971K, about PDF)
    Publication Number: EPA 500-F-01-343
    September 2001
  
  
  More information on Assessment Pilot Application Guidelines
  
  
• November 26, 2001 - Deadline for Proposals for Supplemental Assessment Pilot Funding
  Assessment pilot communities that have received EPA funding on or before September 30, 2000, may apply for supplemental funding during FY 2002. All proposals must be postmarked by USPS or delivered at U.S. EPA Headquarters by other means, no later than November 26, 2001, and a duplicate copy sent to the appropriate U.S. EPA Regional Office.
  
  
  • Proposal Guidelines for Supplemental Assistance for Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots (PDF) (16 pp, 969K, about PDF)
    EPA Document Number: EPA 500-F-01-344
    September 2001
  
  
  More information on Supplemental Assistance for Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots
  
  
• November 19, 2001 - Deadline for Submitting Proposals for USTfields Pilots
  EPA is accepting proposals for financial assistance for USTfields Pilots. EPA is inviting states (including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), federally-recognized Indian tribes, and eligible intertribal consortia to submit up to three proposals each to compete for these pilots.
  • Federal Register Notice
    October 2, 2001
  
  
  For More information, visit EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks USTFields Web page.
  
  
• November 15, 2001 Deadline for the FY 2002 Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund (BCRLF) Pilots.
  Proposals must be post-marked by the U.S. Postal Service or sent to U.S. EPA Headquarters via registered or tracked mail by the proposal deadline.
  
  
  • Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (PDF) (47 pp, 379K, about PDF)
    Publication Number: EPA 500-F-01-348
    September 2001
  
  
  More information on the Brownfields Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund Pilots.
  
  
• November 2, 2001 - Deadline for Renewal Community Designation Applications
  For More Information, visit HUD's Initiative for Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities Web site at:
  http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm
  
  
• October 19, 2001 - Deadline for Proposals for Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots
  The Environmental Protection Agency will accept applications for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstraton Pilots through October 19, 2001. EPA expects to select approximately 10 Brownfields Environmental Job Training and Development pilots by the end of December 2001.
  
  
  • Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstraton Pilots (PDF) (17 pp, 217K, about PDF)
    Publication Number: EPA 500-F-01-328
    July 2001
  
  
  For more information, visit Proposal Guidelines for Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots
  
  
• October 22, 2001 - Deadline for Round III Empowerment Zones Applications
  For More Information, visit HUD's Initiative for Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities Web site at:
  http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm
  
  
• September 24 -26, 2001 - Brownfields 2001 Conference
  McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL
  Presented by the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania
  Co-Sponsored by The U.S. EPA, Co-Sponsors, and the City of Chicago Brownfields Initiative
  Information on
  
  
• August 15, 2001 - Deadline for Applications for Enhancement of State, County or Local Public Health Departments Participation in Brownfields Decisions and Actions.
  
  
  • Federal Register Notice (Vol. 66, No. 124, p. 34201)
    June 27, 2001
    
    
• Call For Presentations deadline extended to: April 27, 2001
  For more information, visit our Brownfields Conferences page.
  
  
• March 2, 2001 - Deadline for applications for the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) 2001 Brownfields Peer Exchange.

  For more information and to download a Peer Exchange application form, visit http://icma.org/go.cfm?cid=2&gid=8&sid=15&did=959  

• Guidelines for Second Round of Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) Brownfields Prevention Pilots -- Application Process Closes on February 16, 2001.
  
  
  • "Deadline Extended for Additional Brownfields Projects"
    Press Release
    January 19, 2001
    
    For more information on the RCRA Brownfields Pilots application, visit our Brownfields Application Information page.
    
    
  • "Brownfields Initiative Seeks Second Round of Projects"
    Press Release
    January 5, 2001
    
    
• February 16, 2001 - Deadline for applications in the Economic Development Administration's second annual Award for Excellence in Economic Development competition.

  For more information, or to download the application packet in Portable Document Format (PDF), visit the EDA Web site at http://www.doc.gov/eda/html/1a13_excellenceaward.htm
  
  

• January 12, 2001 - Deadline for Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots Applications
  
  For more information, visit Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots.

Reports and Documents

• Reusing Brownfields Protects Greenfields
  "Public Policies and Private Decisions Affecting the Redevelopment of Brownfields: An Analysis of Critical Factors, Relative Weights and Areal Differentials" - Final Report

  A recent report published by the George Washington University (GWU), under cooperative agreement with EPA, examines the relationship between reusing brownfields and preserving greenfields, using information from brownfields projects underway across the nation.

  • Final Report 
    (http://www.gwu.edu/~eem/Brownfields/project_report/report.htm)
    September 2001
  
  
  For more information, visit the GWU/EPA Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Cooperative Agreement Web Site at: www.gwu.edu/~eem/Brownfields/ 
  
  
• RCRA Brownfields Prevention Initiative Pilot Project 2000 Summary Report (PDF) (26 pp, 311K, about PDF)
  
  • Publication Number: EPA 500-F-01-350
    September 2001
  
  
  For more information, visit the RCRA Brownfields page.
  
  
• Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund Pilots
  EPA is accepting proposals for Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots until November 15, 2001. The pilots, which are funded up to $1,000,000, test cleanup and redevelopment planning models, direct special efforts toward removing regulatory barriers without sacrificing protectiveness and facilitate coordinated environmental cleanup and redevelopment efforts at the federal, state and local levels.

  • Federal Register Notice
    September 20, 2001
    
    

  • Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (PDF) (47 pp, 379K, about PDF)
    Publication Number: EPA 500-F-01-348
    September 2001
    
    More information on the Brownfields Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund Pilots.
    
    
  • Remediation Technology Cost Compendium - Year 2000 (PDF) (77 pp, 692K, about PDF)
    Order EPA 542-R-01-009 
    EPA Document Number: 542-R-01-009
    September 2001
    
    
  • New Cost Study Announced on Six Common Cleanup Technologies
    Press Advisory
    EPA R-151
    September 7, 2001
    
    
  • Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstraton Pilots
    News Release
    August 23, 2001
    
    
  • Federal Register Notice
    August 23, 2001
    
    
  • Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstraton Pilots (PDF) (17 pp, 217K, about PDF)
    Publication Number: EPA 500-F-01-328
    July 2001
    
    For more information, visit Proposal Guidelines for Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots
    
    
  • Brownfields Tax Incentive Guidelines EPA Document Number: EPA 500-F-01-338
    June 2001
    
    
  • "Enhancement of State, County or Local Public Health Departments Participation in Brownfields Decisions and Actions"
    Federal Register (Vol. 66, No. 124, p. 34201) (PDF) (3 pp, 82K, about PDF)
    June 27, 2001
    
    
  • Memorandum: Financial Structure of Cooperative Agreement Funds Under the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (BCRLF) Program - Timothy Fields, Jr. (PDF) (13 pp, 304K, about PDF)
    January 10, 2001

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