Author(s)

S.-E. Kaiser

Abstract

In just ten years, the cleanup and reuse of brownfields in the United States has grown from a single pilot project into an award-winning national movement that has changed the way people think about contaminated land. The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Program provides the technical and financial assistance that undergirds the brownfields effort in the United States. Passage of federal brownfields legislation in 2002 expanded the Brownfields Program and created new opportunities for addressing brownfields issues. This paper describes the U.S. EPA Brownfields Program and the tools and approaches that the Brownfields Program uses to help local efforts to revitalize brownfields. Keywords: brownfields, assessment, cleanup, redevelopment, revitalization, liability, United States, funding. 1 Introduction The United S

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