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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfield Program

The EPA Brownfield Program provides grants and technical assistance to communities, states, tribes and others to assess, safely clean up and sustainably redevelop contaminated properties.

Examples include abandoned gas stations, dry cleaners, industrial and commercial properties.

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Brownfields Basics

What is a brownfield?

The term brownfield typically refers to land that is abandoned or underused, in part, because of concerns about contamination. The federal government defines brownfields as “abandoned, idled or underused industrial and commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.”

Brownfields may make you think of dirty, blighted, abandoned industrial property, but that image is too narrow. Though some brownfields are old industrial sites, others are commercial buildings with little or no environmental contamination.

Brownfields could be:

former service stations,
former dry cleaners,
factories,
warehouses,
parking lots,
hangers,
lots where heavy machinery was stored or repaired,
abandoned railroads,
former railroad switching yards,
air strips,
bus facilities,
landfills,
and many more types of facilities.

Many of these brownfields could be turned from possible liabilities into successful developments.

Is there a brownfield in your community?

Southwest GA Regional Commission assures that no person shall, on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, family or religious status, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Federal Transit Laws, 49 CFR Part 21 Unlawful Discrimination, Nondiscrimination In Federally-Assisted Programs Of The Department Of Transportation and as per written guidance under FTA Circular 4702.1B, dated October 2012, be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination or retaliation under any program or activity undertaken by the agency.