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EPA Region 7 to Present City of Mason City, Iowa, with $500K Check for
Brownfields Grant
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 – 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa,
KS 66219
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations
LENEXA, KAN. (JUNE 13, 2023) – On Wednesday, June 14, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 will present a $500,000 ceremonial check to
the City of Mason City, Iowa. The city will host the ceremony at the River II
Apartments located at 215 2nd Street SW.
EPA has selected the City of Mason City for a Brownfields Assessment Grant.
Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 15 Phase I and eight Phase
II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to prepare a
brownfield site inventory, support reuse planning, and community outreach
activities.
The target area for this grant is the City of Mason City with a focus on its
urban core. Priority sites include a blighted strip mall, a 9-acre vacant site
that formerly manufactured steel doors, and a half-acre vacant site that once
housed a foundry.
These investments are part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda
to grow the American economy from the bottom up and middle-out – from
rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to driving over $470 billion in
private-sector manufacturing and clean-energy investments in the United
States, to creating a manufacturing and innovation boom powered by good-paying
jobs that don’t require a four-year degree, to building a clean-energy
economy that will combat climate change and make our communities more
resilient.
“EPA is proud to partner with the City of Mason City for the first time
through our Brownfields Program,” said EPA Region 7 Land, Chemical, and
Redevelopment Division Director Jeff Robichaud. “This grant will add to the
city’s ongoing efforts to provide a cleaner environment and spur economic
growth in the region.”
“Mason City is no stranger to the benefits of brownfield redevelopment,”
said City Administrator Aaron Burnett. “With the award of U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Community-Wide Assessment funding, the city’s
brownfield redevelopment objectives can proceed at a geographically broader,
much more invigorated and expeditious level, providing nearer term benefits to
both the city’s Opportunity Zone and Justice40 Disadvantaged Community
areas.”
WHO:
EPA Region 7 Land, Chemical, and Redevelopment Division Director Jeff
Robichaud
Mason City Mayor Bill Schickel
Mason City Administrator Aaron Burnett
WHAT: Brownfields grant ceremonial check presentation to the City of Mason
City, Iowa
WHEN: Wednesday, June 14, at 2:00 pm CDT
WHERE: River II Apartments, 215 2nd Street SW, Mason City, Iowa 50401
Background
EPA has selected these organizations to receive funding to address and support
the reuse of brownfield sites. EPA anticipates making all the awards recently
announced, once all legal and administrative requirements are satisfied.
EPA’s Brownfields Program began in 1995 and has provided nearly $2.37
billion in Brownfields Grants to assess and clean up contaminated properties
and return blighted properties to productive reuse. EPA’s investments in
addressing brownfield sites have leveraged over $36 billion in cleanup and
redevelopment. Over the years, the relatively small investment of federal
funding has leveraged nearly 260,000 jobs from both public and private
sources. Communities that previously received Brownfields Grants used these
resources to fund assessments and cleanups of brownfields, and successfully
leveraged an average of 10.6 jobs per $100,000 of EPA Brownfield Grant funds
spent and $19.78 for every dollar.
The next National Brownfields Training Conference will be held on Aug. 8-11,
2023, in Detroit. Offered every two years, this conference is the largest
gathering of stakeholders focused on cleaning up and reusing former commercial
and industrial properties. EPA co-sponsors this event with the International
City/County Management Association (ICMA).
Learn more about Brownfields Grants
Learn more about EPA’s Brownfields Program
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