CUMBERLAND VALLEY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
USEPA Assessment Grant
PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The CVADD is one of 15 area development districts located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Area development districts were developed in the late 1960s to stimulate Kentucky’s counties in economic development through involvement of locally-elected officials, business and civic leaders, and representatives of minorities and the poor. CVADD has a history of working toward economic development of an eight-county region in southeastern Kentucky along the Tennessee border. CVADD acts as a liaison among state and local governments, whose important initiative is to assist state government in distributing funding made available to local governments. This includes grant writing, grants administration, and provision of a specialized professional staff. The CVADD staff includes professionals with a wide range of backgrounds in such areas as development, human services, management, planning, and GIS mapping. By sharing the expertise found at the area development district level, local governments are collectively able to have the professional staff that many counties and cities could not otherwise afford.
OUTCOME:
In conjunction with the CVADD public meetings were conducted within all eight counties of the district; a Brownfields Advisory Committee was formed; “visioning sessions” were conducted at public meetings; Brownfield sites were inventoried and sites were ranked and prioritized; Phase I and Phase II ESAs and ABCA plans were written for over 20 sites; two cleanup grant applications were written for properties assessed during the grant. CVADD was awarded another Assessment Grant in 2022 with a number of sites already identified as needing additional assessment.
Project Dates & Dollar Value:
2009 to 2012: $400,000
2015 to 2018: $400,000
2022 to Current: $500,000