United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-01-311
April 2001
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
SEPA Brownfields
Supplemental
Assistance
Lockland, OH
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, and safely clean up
brownfields to promote their sustainable reuse. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and
commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental
contamination. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years,
with additional funding provided for greenspace) to test assessment models and facilitate coordinated assessment
and cleanup efforts at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels; and job training pilot programs (each funded up to
$200,000 over two years) to provide training for residents of communities affected by brownfields to facilitate cleanup
of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental field; and, cleanup revolving loan
fund program (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) to provide financial assistance for the environmental
cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states, tribes, municipalities, and
communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods to promote a unified
approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND
EPA has selected the Village of Lockland to receive
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields
Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Lockland was hard
hit when a number of its largest industrial employers
closed in the early 1990s, leaving behind antiquated
buildings and eliminating 40 percent of the village' s
job opportunities. This lowered property values by
30 percent and tax revenues by 40 percent. More
than 75 percent of Lockland's industrial land—over
200 acres—became brownfields. Currently, two-
thirds of Lockland's households fall below the
county's median income level, and 17 percent of
residents live in poverty.
The supplemental assistance will expand on work
begunduringthe original PUotonthreeheavy industrial
sites (Mill Creek Commerce Park, Celotex II, and
Stearns Complex) and address a new site—
CertainTeed, a 32-acre site that closed in December
2000. CertainTeed previously manufactured asphalt
asbestos shingles. Two developers are interested in
redeveloping this property for mixed-use office space
if potentialenvironmentalproblemscanbe addressed.
The other three sites were used for heavy industrial
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Announcement:
April 2001
Amount: $150,000
Profile: The Pilottargetsfour
heavy-industry brownfields in
the most economically
depressed area of Lockland.
The targeted sites have the
potential to provide over
1,000 new jobs for residents.
Lockland, Ohio
Contacts:
Village of Lockland
(513)761-1124
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 5
(312)353-6571
Visit the E PA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
Forfurtherinformation,includingspecific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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purposes. A developer has expressed interest in
building its corporate headquarters at the Mill Creek
site, which comprises 20 percent of Lockland's
overall brownfields, if environmental concerns can
be addressed. All of the proposed sites are
contaminated or suspected of being contaminated,
and many are in neighborhoods plagued with high
crime levels and other social problems.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The use of supplemental assistance will focus on
Lockland' s major brownfields areas and encourage
redevelopment of several targeted sites by performing
environmental assessments consistent with the Ohio
Voluntary Action Program. Supplemental assistance
will be used to continue assessment activities at the
Mill Creek Commerce Park, Celotex n, and Stearns
Complex, and to begin new assessment activities at
CertainTeed. Supplemental assistance also will be
used to conduct a public outreach program and
encourage property owners to participate in the
Ohio Voluntary Action Program.
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Performing three Phase I environmental site
assessments;
• Performing four Phase II environmental site
assessments;
• Conducting one risk assessment at the Mill Creek
Commerce Park site; and
• Providing a public outreach program that informs
thepubliconPilotactivitiesandencourages property
owners to participate in the Ohio Voluntary Action
Program.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Lockland, Ohio
April 2001 EPA500-F-01-311
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