Are there any sites that are excluded by their nature from getting a brownfields agreement?
Two types of sites are excluded from obtaining a brownfields agreement. The first is National Priorities List sites. These are sites on the federal Superfund program’s worst sites list. There are only 29 of these sites in North Carolina. The second type of excluded sites is underground petroleum storage tanks sites that are subject to the Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund, and which are excluded only if that’s the only type of contaminant on the site. Mixed contamination sites that include UST contamination with contamination from another source are still eligible for brownfields agreements (as are sites contaminated by releases from aboveground petroleum tanks). If you have questions regarding this point you may refer to Issue 8 under the Brownfields Program Guidelines and Issue Resolutions.
