EPA Regional Administrator Kevin McOmber and U.S. Rep. Clay Fuller to Highlight Significant Brownfield Investments in North Georgia
EPA Regional Administrator Kevin McOmber and U.S. Rep. Clay Fuller to Highlight Significant Brownfield Investments in North Georgia
CHICKAMAUGA, Georgia (Sept. 11, 2026) – On September 18, 2026, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Kevin McOmber and U.S. Representative Clay Fuller (GA-14) will join state and local officials to highlight $6 million in brownfield funding. This investment includes $4 million to City of Chickamauga to clean up the former Crystal Springs Print Works site, so it can be returned to productive reuse; $1.5 million to Northwest Georgia Regional Commission to assess properties for potential redevelopment; and $500,000 to Rome-Floyd County Development Authority to expand the inventory of brownfield sites and assess prospective properties.
Who:
Kevin McOmber, Regional Administrator, EPA Region 4
Clay Fuller, U.S. Representative (GA-14)
Jeff Cown, Director, Georgia Environmental Protection Division
Evitte Parrish, Mayor, City of Chickamauga
Boyd Austin, Executive Director, Northwest Georgia Regional Commission
Evie McNiece, board member, Rome Floyd County Development Authority
When:
Friday, September 18, 2026
2 p.m.
Where:
Chickamauga Civic Center
1817 Lee Clarkson Rd.
Chickamauga, GA 30707
RSVP: Credentialed media who wish to attend should sign up no later than 7 p.m. ET, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026 at: https://www.epa.gov/ga/forms/epa-region-4-event-rsvp-form.
Background: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced $13.5 million in Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup (MAC) grants to accelerate the cleanup of polluted sites across Georgia. With these funds, EPA is investing directly in American communities to clean up and redevelop blighted properties, delivering on the Trump Administration’s commitment to ensure that clean air, land, and water go hand-in-hand with economic growth and opportunity.
EPA’s Brownfields Program began in 1995 and has provided over $3 billion in grant funding to assess and clean up contaminated properties and return blighted properties to productive reuse.
To date, brownfields investments leveraged more than $45 billion in cleanup and redevelopment. Over the years, the relatively small investment of federal funding was able to leverage, from both public and private sources, more than 228,900 jobs. Through fiscal year 2025, on average, $19.47 was leveraged for each EPA Brownfields Grant dollar awarded through multipurpose, assessment, revolving loan fund and cleanup cooperative agreements.
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