How can we get help to clean up old industrial property in our community?

"EPA's Brownfields Program is designed to empower states, communities, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. It is estimated that there are more than 450,000 brownfields in the U.S. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties increases local tax bases, facilitates job growth, utilizes existing infrastructure, takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and both improves and protects the environment." This information is from the Brownfields and Land Revitalization Basic Information Web page at: http://epa.gov/brownfields/basic_info.htm.

The Brownfields and Land Revitalization Web site is located at: http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/index.html

For more information about the EPA's Brownfields Program or the clean up of old properties, you can contact the Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization at:

U.S. EPA
Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Mail Code 5105 T
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20460

Phone:  (202) 566-2777
Fax: (202) 566-2757
Contact Us Web form:  http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/comments.htm

You can locate regional Brownfields Program contact information at the Where You Live page at: http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/bfwhere.htm