§ 80400 Brownfield Contamination Loan Program

• •The government has a program to lend money to people who want to check if old or unused properties are unsafe because of pollution.
• •This money can only be used for a special kind of safety check called a 'preliminary endangerment assessment'.
• •The loan cannot be used for a basic pollution check (Phase I assessment) or for the government's work in overseeing the safety check.

Imagine there's an old, empty factory in your town that nobody uses. Someone wants to buy it to turn it into a park, but they're worried the ground might be polluted and unsafe.

The government can lend money to this person to help them pay for a special check to see if the factory land is really unsafe. But they can't use this loan to pay for a basic pollution check or for the government's work in watching over the process.