(AGENPARL) – gio 25 maggio 2023 Issued: May 25, 2023 (1:52pm EDT)
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EPA awards $500K for cleanup and revitalization of properties in Great Falls
and Cascade County, Montana?
Great Falls Development Authority to use Brownfields grant to address
contamination, advance redevelopment
Contacts: 
Great Falls Development Authority: Lillian Sunwall, Vice President Business
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Great Falls, Mont. (May 25, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) today announced the Great Falls Development Authority will receive a
$500,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant to conduct environmental site
assessments and develop reuse plans at more than a dozen locations across
Cascade County, Montana. The target area for these projects includes downtown
Great Falls and small communities throughout the county.? 
“The Great Falls Development Authority continues to be a high-performing
partner in using EPA Brownfields funds to complete cleanup and redevelopment
projects in the city and throughout Cascade County,” said EPA Regional
Administrator KC Becker. “We look forward to these efforts as they address
contamination and create new opportunities for the residents of Belt, Cascade,
Great Falls, Monarch, Sun River, Ulm and Vaughn.”? 
“As a third-generation farmer, I understand the challenges rural America is
facing, including the lasting impacts of toxic waste,” said U.S. Senator
Jon Tester. “Cleaning up and revitalizing Montana’s remaining Brownfield
sites breathes new life into our communities by creating some real
opportunities for economic development. That’s why I am proud to have
secured this funding in my Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for cleanup projects
across Big Sky Country to spur economic growth and improve the quality of life
for folks from Glendive to Kalispell.” 
EPA’s award to the Great Falls Development Authority is among six grants
announced today totaling more than $5.7 million for cleanup and revitalization
projects in communities across Montana.?These funds are part of President
Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup
of brownfield sites while advancing environmental justice through the
Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup (MARC) Grant
programs. Thanks to the historic boost from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,
this funding is the largest ever awarded by the EPA’s Brownfields MARC Grant
programs.? 
“The team at Great Falls Development Authority is delighted to be awarded
this Brownfields Assessment Grant from EPA,” said Lillian Sunwall, Vice
President of the Great Falls Development Authority. “This assessment grant
will be a great tool to leverage our Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund along
with public and private investment to push the assessed sites into cleanup and
redevelopment.?We look forward to building on the success that has already
been created by our completed brownfields projects.” 
Great Falls Development Authority will use the EPA funding to address several
priority properties selected because they offer significant redevelopment
potential, lack traditional economic support and/or are located near sensitive
populations. These sites include, but are not limited to:? 
Energy West Gas Manufacturing Plant, Great Falls? 
Former Dick Grieb Buick, Great Falls?? 
Quality Life Concepts, Great Falls?? 
Westside Animal Clinic, Great Falls? 
Discount Parts, Belt?? 
Antiques Café, Sun River?? 
Contaminants associated with the properties listed above include gasoline and
diesel fuels, metals, pesticides, wood treatment chemicals, asbestos,
lead-based-paint and methamphetamine.?? 
The Great Falls Development Authority identified several reuse opportunities
for these sites. For example, cleanup of potential petroleum contamination at
the Dick Grieb Buick property will remove obstacles to redevelopment
opportunities as a storefront and residential housing. Additional Brownfields
throughout the county include railroad property and fuel warehouses and
storage sites, which represent possible sources of petroleum and hazardous
substance contamination.?? 
Other Brownfields grants announced in Montana today include:? 
Sweetgrass Development Corporation, north-central Montana: $1 million 
Montana West Economic Development Foundation, Inc, Kalispell, Flathead County:
$500,000? 
Big Sky Economic Development, Billings: $1 million 
Great Northern Development Corporation, Glendive: $2,250,000? 
Beartooth Resource Conservation and Development, Stillwater, Carbon and Big
Horn Counties and the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Indian Reservations:
$460,000 
Background? 
Thanks to the historic $1.5 billion boost from President Biden’s Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, EPA’s Brownfields Program is helping more communities
than ever begin to address the economic, social and environmental challenges
caused by brownfields and stimulate economic opportunity and environmental
revitalization in historically overburdened communities.  
EPA’s Brownfields Program also advances President Biden’s Justice40
Initiative to direct 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal
investments to disadvantaged communities. Approximately 84% of the MARC
program applications selected to receive funding proposed to work in areas
that include historically underserved communities. 
EPA’s Brownfields Program began in 1995 and has provided nearly $2.37
billion in Brownfield Grants to assess and clean up contaminated properties
and return blighted properties to productive reuse. EPA’s investments in
addressing brownfield sites have leveraged more than $36 billion in cleanup
and redevelopment. Communities that previously received Brownfields Grants
used these resources to fund assessments and cleanups of brownfields, and
successfully leverage an average of 10.6 jobs per $100,000 of grant funds
spent and $19.78 for every dollar. 
More on Brownfields Grants.?? 
More on EPA’s Brownfields Program.? 
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