This fiscal year 2021 brownfield community-wide assessment cooperative agreement will provide funding for the NEZ perce tribe to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct cleanup planning and…

This Fiscal Year 2021 Cooperative Agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 will provide $300,000 to the Nez Perce Tribe to address brownfield sites in the Clearwater River Corridor Target Area within the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho. Under the Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.818), the Tribe will inventory, assess, and conduct cleanup planning and community involvement activities for priority brownfield sites from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. These sites include a closed fueling station, automobile junkyard and gravel mine, three unused lumber mills, and the site of a former federal military fort with unoccupied blighted buildings. Funding will support environmental site assessments, cleanup and reuse planning, and community involvement to facilitate redevelopment of these contaminated properties in the target area.

This fiscal year 2021 brownfield community-wide assessment cooperative agreement will provide funding for the NEZ perce tribe to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct cleanup planning and community involvement related activities for brownfield sites in the clearwater river corridor target area within the NEZ perce reservation, idaho. 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. Funding will be used to conduct environmental site assessments, cleanup and reuse planning, and conduct community involvement activities. Priority sites include a closed fueling station, an automobile junkyard and gravel mine, three unused lumber mills, and the site of a former federal military fort that includes unoccupied blighted buildings which once housed a boarding school and tuberculosis sanitorium.