This action approves an award in the amount of $300,000 to provide funding for the town of siler city

This $300,000 cooperative agreement award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 will support brownfield site assessment and community involvement activities in Siler City, North Carolina through September 2024. Funded under EPA's Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program, the Town of Siler City will inventory, characterize, and assess brownfield sites. They will also develop cleanup planning and host community involvement events. Anticipated deliverables include site assessment reports, technical documents, and a community involvement plan. The award aims to make properties ready for reuse, potentially creating jobs and leveraging additional funds. The target areas are the 11th Street Corridor, 2nd Avenue, and Main Street - located in or near an Opportunity Zone and the impaired Loves Creek Watershed. Brownfield redevelopment can drive economic development in impacted communities.

Activities to be performed may include inventory, characterization, assessment, and development of cleanup planning and community involvement related events for brownfield sites in the town of siler city, north carolina. Anticipated deliverables and expected outcomes, and intended beneficiaries, for this project will include site assessment reports, other technical reports, and a community involvement plan. More specifically, outcomes may include jobs and leveraged funding, and properties made ready for reuse. 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. The target areas for this project are the 11TH street corridor, the main east to west entrance into town of siler city and 2ND avenue, and the north to south running &quotandmain street,&quotand which are in or adjacent to an opportunity zone and proximal to loves creek watershed, a listed impaired watershed.