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Brownfields 2008
Grant Fact Sheet
Little Tokyo Service
Center Community
Development
Corporation, Los
Angeles, CA
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed
into law the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under this law, EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through four competitive grant programs: assessment
grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and
job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through
a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The Little Tokyo Service Center Community Develop-
ment Corporation was selected to receive a
brownfields cleanup grant. The Corporation is targeting
the PWC Family Housing site for cleanup. The target
site is located in the Historic Filipinotown area (popula-
tion 31,266) of Los Angeles in a federally designated
I
Cleanup Grant
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Little Tokyo Service Center
Community Development Corporation for a
brownfields cleanup grant. Petroleum grant funds
will be used to clean up the PWC Family Housing
site at 153 Glendale Boulevard. Oil wells operated
on the site between 1930 and 1970, and oil drilling
also may have occurred between 1982 and 1992.
The site is contaminated with petroleum hydrocar-
bons.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit
the EPA Brownfields web site at: www.epa.gov/
brownfields.
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Team
415-972-3093
http://www.epa.gov/region9/brownfields
Grant Recipient: Little Tokyo Service Center
Community Development Corporation, CA
213-473-1609
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
accuracy of this information. The cooperative
agreement for the grant has not yet been negoti-
ated. Therefore, activities described in mis fact
sheet are subject to change.
Renewal Community. Historic Filipinotown is a pre-
dominately minority community, and 51 percent of area
residents live below the poverty level. The area lacks
affordable housing. The cleanup site is part of the City
of Los Angeles' original oilfield, where hundreds of oil
wells were drilled within a two-block section along
Glendale Boulevard. When the site is cleaned up, the
Corporation plans to redevelop it with affordable multi-
family housing units.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-08-220
July 2008
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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