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HomeMy WebLinkAbout17- City Grant #2017-13 - EPA Vollmer Building Removal BOZ E MAN MT City of Bozeman Grant Routing Cover Sheet This form is used in conjunction with Administrative Order 2014-01, adopting the Grant Application and Reception Policy. When a Department Director signs grant documents under this provision, they are certifying that they understand the provisions of the grant and its impact on city operations and finances. All the required boxes must be initialed by the appropriate departments. Use a separate routing sheet for each phase of the grant process. Utilize assigned grant number for each phase for tracking purposes. EPA Brownfields Grant for Vollmer Buildings 2017-13 Grant Document Title: Grant#(issued by City Clerk): CFDA#(applies to Federal grants) Grant Total:$200,000 Grant Match:$40,000(TPL) Department: PARKS AND RECREATION-TOP Responsible Staff Member:CAROLYN POISSANT Phase of Process: 7 Notice of Intent Application Award/Contract Date Document Signed: 11/1/17 For all grants under$20,000 Department City Attorney Finance Office City Manager Original in value. Director Office -Controller Signed Grant Documents to City Clerk Does not require approval on Not Required Not Required Commission meeting agenda For all grants over$20,000 in Department City Attorney Finance Office City Manager Original value. Director Office -Controller Signed Grant Documents to *Department Director initials City Clerk verify notification to City 2, SZ7 Commission and City Manager within 30 days of grant application. REQUIRES City Commission Approval DATE of COMMISSION MEETING: NOVEMBER 13,2017 Presented by:C.POISSANT ❑� Consent Action Revised 10/10/2014 BOZ E MANMT Parks&Recrealion MEMORANDUM TO: Senior Staff FROM: Carolyn Poissant—Parks Division CC: Mitch Overton—Director of Parks and Recreation DATE: 11-1-2017 SUBJECT: Grant Application No. 2017-13—Resolution 4857 The Trust for Public Land is preparing to submit a grant application to the EPA Brownfields program for removal and asbestos abatement of the Vollmer buildings in Story Mill Park. We have already obtained the required city permits for removal. There is no city match required. The work would be completed in association with the TOP bond project.As the property owner, the city must be the applicant,however,TPL is preparing and will administer the grant. Grant Program Description: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued its Request for Proposals for the FY 2018 Brownfield Cleanup Grants. EPA's Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, or nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. The Cleanup grant program provides funds to carry out cleanup activities at a specific brownfield site owned by the applicant.An applicant can apply for up to $200,000 per brownfield site, and grant funds may be used for direct costs associated with programmatic management of the grant, such as required performance reporting, construction oversight, and environmental monitoring of cleanup work. Grant applications are due by November 16, 2017,with notice (such as posting with City Commission meeting package on November 2nd). Project Description:The Trust for Public Land is partnering with the City of Bozeman, Montana (the applicant)on a proposal for the EPA Brownfields Cleanup grant program. The site of focus is Story Mill Community Park, and specifically, a 5.68-acre site along the East Gallatin River.This property—known as the Vollmer Slaughterhouse Site—is located at 1869 Story Mill Road,just south of the intersection of the Story Mill Spur Trail and Story Mill Road, and is currently the location of two buildings(a former rendering plant and slaughterhouse). The buildings are planned to be demolished,to enable the redevelopment and restoration of the site into a key part of the broader park site.A Sketch Plan/COA/Demo Application for the Demolition of Two Structures in a Historic District was completed for this site by Intrinsik Architecture in May 2017 to support an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition of the buildings. However, with a rich history of farming, ranching, railroads, and early western settlement,there have also been significant water quality impacts, and the buildings have been found to have contaminants(such as asbestos)that need be removed using the appropriate and safe methods. This proposal requests funding for the cleanup of contaminants,which would include demolition and contamination abatement of the two existing buildings.This project is intended to primarily benefit the 40,000 people who live in Bozeman (and almost 100,000 living in Gallatin Valley), by enabling the restoration of the site to its natural state,thereby improving environmental quality and enabling active and adventure recreation. Budget Request: $200,000 ($40,000 cost share) Project Period: Begin summer/fall 2018, can use funding for up to 3 years. THE TRUST �qq Brownfield Cleanup Grants (FY 20181 FOR PUBLIC LAN' Administrating Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OLEM-OBLR-17-09 CFDA Number(s): 66.818 Program Website: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields Funding Notice: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-09/documents/epa-oblr-olem-17- 09.pdf Estimated Total Program Funding: $7.5 million Funding Award: If a site has two (2) tax ID numbers and is broken up into separate parcels, applicants can submit separate proposals for each parcel for up to $200,000 per parcel. Deadline: Applications due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on November 16, 2017 Program Intent: EPA's Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. EPA provides brownfields funding for three types of grants: 1. Brownfields Assessment Grants - provides funds to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning (including cleanup planning) and community involvement related to brownfield sites. 2. Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants— provides funding for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving fund and to make loans and provide subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. 3. Brownfields Cleanup Grants - provides funds to carry out cleanup activities at a specific brownfield site owned by the applicant. Under these guidelines, Nonprofits Organizations are only eligible to apply directly for Cleanup Grants. Brownfields Assessment Grants and Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants are open to local governments and public authorities, not Nonprofit Organizations. A brownfield site is defined as real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, controlled substances, petroleum or petroleum products, or is mine-scarred land. 1 Proposals will be evaluated, among other factors, on the extent to which the applicant demonstrates: economic and environmental needs of the targeted communities; a vision for the reuse and redevelopment of brownfield sites and the capability to achieve that vision; reasonable and eligible tasks; partnerships and leveraged resources to complete the project; incorporation of livability and sustainability principles and economic, environmental, health, and social benefits associated with the reuse and redevelopment of brownfield sites. A critical part of EPA's assessment and cleanup efforts is to ensure that residents living in communities historically affected by economic disinvestment, health disparities, and environmental contamination have an opportunity to reap the benefits from brownfields redevelopment. EPA's Brownfields Program has a rich history rooted in environmental justice and is committed to helping communities revitalize brownfield properties, mitigate potential health risks, and restore economic vitality. Description of Grant Cleanup Grants provide funding to carry out cleanup activities at specific brownfield sites owned by the applicant. An applicant can apply for up to $200,000 per brownfield site and can submit up to three site-specific cleanup proposals. Applicants that exceed the maximum number of proposals allowable for Cleanup Grants will be contacted, prior to review of any of the proposals by EPA, to determine which proposals the applicant will withdraw from the competition. A separate proposal must be submitted for each site. An applicant may request up to $200,000 to address hazardous substances and/or petroleum contamination at a specified site. An applicant requesting both hazardous substance and petroleum cleanup funding at the same site must submit one proposal, which cannot exceed $200,000 total. If the hazardous substance and petroleum contaminated areas of the site are distinguishable the proposal must indicate the dollar amount of funding requested for each type of contamination and respond to both the hazardous substance and petroleum eligibility questions. Properties eligible for hazardous substance funding are those properties with the presence of hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants and properties that are contaminated with controlled substances or that are mine-scarred lands. Proposals must indicate the dollar amount of funding requested for each type of contamination. An applicant must be the sole owner of the site that is the subject of its Cleanup Grant proposal and must own the site by November 16, 2017 in order to be eligible to receive a Cleanup Grant. For the purposes of eligibility determinations in these guidelines only, the term"own"means fee simple title through a legal document, for example a recorded deed. EPA will find applicants that do not meet this requirement by November 16, 2017 ineligible. The grantee must maintain sole ownership of the site until the grant is closed out. 2 Cleanup Grant applicants must have an ASTM E1903-11 Phase II site assessment report or equivalent site investigation report complete that indicates a basic understanding of what contaminants need to be cleaned up on the site, even if further Phase II assessment work is required prior to proposal submission. Grant funds may be used for direct costs associated with programmatic management of the grant, such as required performance reporting, construction oversight, and environmental monitoring of cleanup work. Linking to Sustainable and Equitable Development Outcomes,and Supporting Environmental Justice: Applicants should incorporate sustainable and equitable cleanup and reuse approaches into their proposed Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup project. Sustainable and equitable approaches can ensure brownfields are cleaned up and reused in ways that: • contribute to greener and healthier homes, buildings, and neighborhoods; • mitigate environmental conditions through effective deconstruction and remediation strategies which address solid and hazardous waste, and improve air and water quality; • improve access by residents to greenspace, recreational property, transit, schools, other nonprofit uses (e.g., libraries, health clinics, youth centers, etc.), and healthy and affordable food; • improve employment and affordable housing opportunities for local residents; • reduce toxicity, illegal dumping, and blighted vacant parcels; and • retain residents who have historically lived nearby the affected by brownfields. Sustainable development practices facilitate environmentally-sensitive brownfields cleanup and redevelopment while also helping to make communities more attractive, economically stronger, and more socially diverse. While ensuring consistency with community-identified priorities, sustainable development approaches encourage brownfleld site cleanup and reuse in ways that provide new jobs, commercial opportunities, open space amenities, and/or social services to an existing neighborhood. Brownfields site preparation strategies that prevent contaminant exposure through green building design, materials recycling, enable urban agricultural reuse, promote walkability to/around the site and contribute to community walkability, and on-site stormwater management through green infrastructure, among other approaches, can contribute to sustainable development outcomes. Equitable development occurs when intentional strategies are put in place to ensure that low income and minority communities not only participate in but also benefit from decisions that shape their neighborhoods and regions. There are many different approaches that promote equitable development, such as ensuring a mix of housing types across a range of incomes; access to fresh food; access to jobs; and access to local capital. Programs or policies can be put in place to help ensure creation or integration of affordable housing; local or first-source hiring; minority contracting; 3 inclusionary zoning (where a percentage of new housing is designated as affordable housing); healthy food retailers in places where they do not exist (e.g. food deserts); co-operative ownership models where local residents come together to run a community-owned, jointly owned business enterprise; rent control or community land trusts (to help keep property affordable for residents); supportive local entrepreneurial activities; and adherence to equal lending opportunities. Environmental justice can be supported through sustainable and equitable development approaches. EPA defines environmental justice as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. EPA has this goal for all communities and persons across the nation. Environmental justice will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision- making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work Community Notification The applicant must provide the community with notice of its intent to apply for an EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grant and allow the community an opportunity to comment on the draft proposal.The community notification ad (or equivalent), public meeting and other requirements discussed below must be current and related to this specific proposal. Failure to demonstrate community notification will result in disqualification of the proposal. Applicants who are proposing multiple sites within the same proposal or submitting more than one proposal may plan to have a single community notification ad (or equivalent) and meeting to address multiple sites/proposals. However, all target communities must receive the notification and be provided an opportunity to comment on the proposal(s) relevant to their community. Eligible Applicants: General Purpose Unit of Local Government; Land Clearance Authority; Government Entity Created by State Legislature; Regional Council; Redevelopment Agency; State; Indian Tribe; and Nonprofit Organizations. Grant Process: Final applications must be submitted through Grants.gov on or before 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on November 16, 2017. Subject to the availability of funds, review of applications will occur during the 6-7 months following the full applications due date. EPA anticipates that funding decisions on applications will be made during spring 2018. The brownfield Cleanup Grant will be awarded in the form of a cooperative agreement. Cooperative agreements permit the EPA Project Officer to be substantially involved in overseeing the work performed by the selected recipients. EPA anticipates notification to successful applicants will be made via telephone or electronic or postal mail by spring 2018. Funding for successful applicants is expected to begin during summer/fall 2018 for most approved projects. The performance period is three years for Cleanup Grants. Geographic Focus: Nationwide projects accepted. 4 Matching Requirements: Applicants must provide a 20 percent non-Federal cost share for Cleanup Grants. For example, a $200,000 Cleanup Grant will require a $40,000 cost share. The cost share, which may be in the form of a contribution of money, labor, material, or services, must be for eligible and allowable costs under the grant and cannot include administrative costs. Applicants may request a waiver of the 20 percent cost share requirement based on hardship. EPA will consider hardship waiver requests on a case-by-case basis and will approve such requests on a limited basis. Eligible Expenses: Funds can be used to provide for staff costs associated with programmatic management of the grant, such as required performance reporting, construction oversight, and environmental monitoring of cleanup work; capital and acquisition costs are ineligible. 5