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State Brownfields Program offers assessment grants, resources for Beaver County reuse
Summary
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality presented Brownfields tools and state-funded assessment grants that Beaver County officials say they may use to study and redevelop underused properties such as the county's old hospital and Main Street parcels.
Bill Reed, manager of the Brownfield Voluntary Cleanup Program at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, told the Beaver County Commission on Feb. 18 that brownfields'properties where redevelopment is complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances'are common in both rural and urban Utah and that federal and state tools exist to address them.
"Brownfields are really a real property where the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse is complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollution, or contaminant," Reed said during a presentation to the commission and city staff. He described typical sites as former gas stations, dry cleaners, abandoned rail spurs and old industrial parcels and showed photos of Utah properties where assessment and cleanup enabled reuse.
The presentation explained how…
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