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Brownfields News and Events Archive - 1998
News & Events
Archives
Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.
Announcements, Press Releases, and Speeches
- Administrator Carol Browner's Speech at Brownfields '98
November 16, 1998. - EPA Announces 11 Job Training and Development Demonstration
Pilots.
Press Advisory
August 14, 1998
More information on the Job Training Pilots.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Brownfields
Economic Development Initiative
Information on the Super Notice of Funding Availability (SuperNOFA) for Economic Development and Empowerment Programs.
Application deadline was August 10, 1998.
- Administrators Browner's Remarks at the Environmental Justice
Roundtable
July 17, 1998
- Vice President Gore Announces 71 New Brownfields Redevelopment
Grants
White House Press Release
July 15, 1998More information on the Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots.
- ATSDR Announces Availability of Funds for Public Health Interventions
Around Brownfields Properties.
Application deadline was August 10, 1998.
Federal Register Notice
Volume 63, Number 126, Page 35933-35937 - Administrator Browner's letter to the U.S. Conference of Mayors
regarding Brownfields and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Federal Housing Finance Board Federal Home Loan Bank Standby
Letters of Credit
Deadline for Comments was August 6, 1998
Federal Register Notice
Volume 63, Number 126, Page 25726-25733
May 8, 1998
- Federal Housing Finance Board Proposed Rules for Community
Investment Cash Advances Program and Federal Home Loan Bank Standby
Letters of Credit
Deadline for Comments was August 6, 1998
Federal Register Notice
Volume 63, Number 126, Page 25717-25726
May 8, 1998
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Economic
Development Initiative
For information on the availability of $28 million for FY 1998 EDI grants under SuperNOFA II, click here.
Application deadline was July 30, 1998.
- EPA Announces Half Million for Projects Harmonizing Air Quality
and Economic Progress in Chicago, Dallas and Baltimore.
Press Advisory
Fact Sheet
More information on Brownfields and Title VI.
- Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking
(EMPACT) Grants Competition Announced.
The original March 2, 1998 deadline for Letters of Intent was extended. Full applications were due May 15, 1998.
Grant Competition Announcement
To go to the EMPACT Homepage, click here.
- EPA Announces 36 New Brownfields Redevelopment Grants
Press Release
May 6, 1998More information on the Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots.
- Federal Partnership Chooses 16 Brownfields Showcase Communities
Showcase Communities General Fact Sheet
Showcase Communities White House Press Release
March 17, 1998
Showcase Communities Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Press Release
March 17, 1998
More information on the Brownfields Showcase Communities.
Meetings and Deadlines
- On November 16 -18, 1998, EPA co-sponsored Brownfields '98: The
Basics and Beyond Showcasing Successful Partnerships in Los Angeles,
California.
More information on Brownfields Conferences.
- During July 12 -24, 1998, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and Morgan State University co-sponsored the EPA Summer Teachers'
Institute, for the sixth consecutive year. This year, the Institute
was held at the Morgan State University campus in Northeast Baltimore.
- National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) Meetings
- May 31-June 3, 1998 in Oakland, California
- February 23-24 1998, in Arlington, Virginia
- December 8-10 1997, in Durham, North Carolina
Notice
Go to the NEJAC Homepage.
- The Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law (JNREL)
Symposium on Brownfields was held in Lexington, Kentucky on April
3 and 4, 1998. JNREL is a legal journal published at the University
of Kentucky College of Law. The topic of this year's symposium was
brownfields law and policy.
Go to the JNREL Homepage.
- Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), an EPA cooperative
agreement recipient, hosted a grant writing workshop on February
23-24, 1998 in Denver, Colorado.
The purpose of this AIO workshop was to assist tribes in submitting Brownfields pilot grant applications for the March 23, 1998 deadline.
Go to the AIO Homepage.
Reports and Documents
- Brownfields Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund Pilot Administrative
Manual now available
More information.
- Brownfields Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund Model Term & Conditions
now available
More information.