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Brownfields Assistance Program - Page 2
Brownfields Representatives
City leaders who are eager to
return brownfields properties to productive use soon find it can be a complicated
process. Local governments may lack the expertise and resources needed to locate
funding, negotiate property transactions, perform environmental investigations and
cleanups, and resolve legal concerns. Staff from the OBA, called Brownfields Representatives,
regularly assist cities in taking on those vacant factories and closed gas stations.
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Brownfields Representatives will travel
to communities and sit down with city leaders upon request to:
· Explain
cleanup options, regulatory program
requirements, and environmental liability status;
· Help
municipalities secure public and private financial assistance; and
· Guide
potential grant and loan recipients
through the brownfields cleanup
and redevelopment process. |
Illinois
Municipal Brownfields
Redevelopment Grant Program
The
Municipal Brownfields Redevelopment
Grant Program offers grants worth a maximum of $240,000 each to municipalities to investigate
and clean up brownfields properties. Grants may be used to perform environmental
site assessments and fund actual cleanup activities.
Grant recipients are required to share in any grant award through a 70/30 match.
The OBA steers municipalities to brownfield grant opportunities, reviews and
approves grant applications, observes grant activities, and reviews reimbursement
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Illinois Brownfields Redevelopment
Loan Program
The Illinois Brownfields Redevelopment
Loan Program offers low interest loans to support efforts by local governments and
private parties to clean up brownfields sites that have already been assessed for
contamination. These cleanups take place under the Illinois EPA's voluntary Site
Remediation Program. The loans will pay for limited investigation, remediation, and
demolition costs at brownfields sites. The maximum loan amount for any single loan
application is $500,000.
The OBA administers the loan program, which includes soliciting loan applications
and managing funds. |
Using a drill rig, environmental
contractors collect soil samples to measure the extent of petroleum contamination.
Their work is funded by a brownfields redevelopment grant obtained by city officials
aiming to bring a new business to this former gas station site. |
For More Information
To request the services of a
Brownfields Representative, please call: 217-782-6761.
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Bureau of Land
Office of Brownfields Assistance
1021 North Grand Avenue East
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276 |
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