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Brownfields 2004
Grant Fact Sheet
Cleveland, OH
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up,
and sustainably reuse brownfields. Abrownfield 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, the President
signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields RevitalizationAct. Under the Brownfields
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 pro-
grams through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The City of Cleveland was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. Heavy manufacturing,
which once dominated the city's economic profile, has
decreased significantly and left an estimated 4,500
acres of brownfields. The unemployment rate of
Cleveland (population 478,803) is double that of the
state. The majority of the city's approximately 350
brownfields are in the most disadvantaged neighbor-
hoods that include the target areas. In the four target
neighborhoods, 52,497 residents live in poverty, on
average 66 percent are minorities, and the combined
unemployment rate is 16.4 percent. African-Americans
represent 93 percent of the 43,706 residents living in
Cleveland's federal Empowerment Zone on the eastern
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the City of Cleveland for a
brownfields assessment grant. Hazardous sub-
stances grant funds will be used to perform com-
munity outreach, training, and approximately five
Phase I and five Phase II site assessments on
vacant, industrial properties in the urban core
neighborhoods of Cudell, Central, Stockyards, and
South Collinwood that have most of the city's
abandoned manufacturing sites. Petroleum grant
funds will be used to perform community outreach,
training, and approximately ten Phase I and ten
Phase II site assessments at sites with potential
petroleum contamination in the same urban areas.
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 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-7576
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
Grant Recipient: Cleveland, OH
216-664-3611
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
side of the central target area where the poverty rate is
35 percent. Nearly a third of African-American
households lack access to an automobile to reach jobs
outside the city. Assessment and cleanup of the city's
contaminated properties will reduce development costs
for industries looking to expand or build in the city and
hire former manufacturing workers.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-04-123
June 2004
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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