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    Wisconsin Plant Recovery Initiative (WPRI)

    WPRI is a DNR effort to help businesses and communities expedite the cleanup and reuse of industrial and/or commercial facilities that have or are planning to shut their doors. Besides the loss of jobs, tax revenue and local business, a plant…

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    Wisconsin Brownfields Coalition

    The Wisconsin Brownfields Coalition was created in 2003 in order to obtain federal funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for brownfields cleanup. Current members include the DNR and Wisconsin's nine regional planning commissions.…

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    Wisconsin Assessment Monies (WAM)

    The Wisconsin Assessment Monies (WAM) program provides funding to address specific brownfields sites where potential or known contamination is acting as an impediment to economic redevelopment. The DNR's Remediation and Redevelopment (RR) Program…

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    Voluntary cleanup and the Voluntary Party Liability Exemption (VPLE)

    Certain individuals, businesses or units of government that conduct an environmental investigation and cleanup of a contaminated property, while following specific state requirements with the oversight of the DNR, can receive an exemption from…

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    Contaminated soil and sediment

    The need to clean up contaminated soil is generally determined by comparing the concentrations of contaminants in samples to the respective cleanup standard (the residual contaminant level or RCL). The RCL is a calculated value that considers the…

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    RR Sites Map

    Launch RR Sites MapThe RR Sites Map is the DNR's web-based mapping system for information about contaminated properties and other activities related to investigating and cleaning contaminated soil and groundwater in Wisconsin. It is part of the DNR'…

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    Wisconsin Ready for Reuse Loan and Grant Program

    The Ready for Reuse Program is on full display in La

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    RR Sites Map layer information

    Descriptions for layers on RR Sites Map are listed below. To find more information about any RR activity, click or tap on the activity point on the map or use the Identify tool. Information about the activity will be displayed in the left-side panel…

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    Federal brownfield grants

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Brownfield Funding supports assessment and cleanup of contaminated properties through assessment, multipurpose and revolving loan fund grants. Job training and technical assistance grants are also…

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    Help for BRRTS on the Web (BOTW)

    Here are some helpful hints and general search tips to be used in BOTW. General information General information Enter or select one or more search criteria and press the enter key or click on the search button. Clicking the reset button removes…

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