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

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded a $300,000 cooperative agreement to the City of Danville, Kentucky, to support activities under the Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program. Funded activities will include inventory, characterization, assessment, and development of cleanup planning and community involvement events for brownfield sites in Danville from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. Key deliverables will be site assessment reports, other technical reports, and a community involvement plan. The award will provide opportunities to assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield properties in the community while potentially creating jobs and leveraging additional funds. Brownfield sites involve real property complicated by hazardous substances under the Brownfields program.

Activities to be performed may include inventory, characterization, assessment, and development of cleanup planning and community involvement related events for brownfield sites in the city of danville, kentucky. Anticipated deliverables and expected outcomes 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 direct beneficiary is the city of danville, the funding will provide an opportunity for the community to be involved in the assessment, cleanup, and reuse of brownfield sites.