Brownfields program

The remainder of this report will demonstrate the successful application of several of these innovative financial, technical, and policy approaches to a brownfields site in urban Connecticut. This case study will highlight the contribution of these new approaches to the success of this brownfield redevelopment project. Without the changes in the US brownfields program that have evolved over the past decade, this contaminated site would have continued to languish for many more years, continuing to contribute to community degradation and local blight. 

Brownfield programs (http //www.epa.gov/swer-osps/bf/glossary.htm brow)... 

What is the brownfields program Cite at least one specific example of a successful brownfields project. 

Support for this initiative has expanded greatly since 1995. In 2001, the US Congress passed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (also known as the 2002 Brownfields Law). This act, which updates the Superfund legislation, authorizes US EPA to provide up to 50 million in grants to states and tribes to establish or enhance programs to assess, cleanup, and redevelop brownfields. Each year since 2003, EPA has distributed almost 50 million in brownfields grants to states, territories, and tribal groups. 

At the Bagnoli brownfield site, Tarzia et al. (2002) (as part of his PhD program with University of Naples Federico II) carried out a study aimed to discriminate anthropogenic pollution sources from natural pollution sources. For this study, heavy metals and Pb isotope data from soils, waste materials, scum, and slag samples from the brownfield site were used. 

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