This agreement will provide funding for the city of topeka to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct cleanup planning and community involvement related activities for brownfield sites…

This Cooperative Agreement award of $300,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 provides funding to the City of Topeka, Kansas for brownfield site revitalization activities from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The funding supports inventorying, assessing, and planning cleanup of priority brownfield sites within three contiguous Opportunity Zones in Topeka, to promote redevelopment. Specifically, the City will update its brownfield site inventory, prioritize sites for assessment and cleanup, conduct community outreach, perform Phase I and II environmental site assessments, and develop reuse plans. The work directly benefits Topeka residents and supports revitalization in the target area. The funding assists objectives of the EPA's Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.818), which aims to facilitate brownfield redevelopment and reduce environmental threats.

This agreement will provide funding for the city of topeka to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct cleanup planning and community involvement related activities for brownfield sites primarily within the target area that includes three contiguous opportunity zones (OZS), which extend from the downtown north to the kansas river, and includes the north topeka arts district (noto) and surrounding north topeka neighborhoods in topeka, kansas. 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 city will update its brownfield site inventory, prioritize sites, conduct community outreach, conduct phase i and II environmental site assessments, and conduct planning related to the reuse and cleanup of priority brownfield sites to support the revitalization of the target area. Direct beneficiaries of this project include the recipient, residents of t