This agreement will provide funding to the city of gatesville, texas to clean up a brownfield site at the former rotunda nursing home, 2525 osage road, gatesville, texas

The City of Gatesville, Texas will receive $220,091 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by September 30, 2024. The funding supports cleanup activities at the former Rotunda Nursing Home site under the Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.818). Specifically, the City will demolish the deteriorating 2525 Osage Road structure contaminated with asbestos-containing materials to abate health and safety hazards. Brownfields redevelopment supports local community needs by addressing contaminated sites that could otherwise limit expansion, redevelopment or reuse. No subawards are associated with this Cooperative Agreement to clean up the Gatesville brownfield.

The deteriorating structure is contaminated with asbestos containing materials in the form of textured walls and ceilings, flooring and mastic. With the structural integrity of the building being found to be severely compromised by structural engineers, this grant will be used to abate the asbestos containing materials through the process of demolition. There will be no subawards under this agreement. Brownfields are real property, the expansion, development or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. These activities will directly benefit the city of gatesville and the surrounding neighborhoods including elementary, middle, junior high and high schools as well as the boys and girls club, all within a few blocks of the site, by cleanin