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 Brownfields  2005

  Grant Fact  Sheet

     Yonkers Industrial

 Development Agency,

                   NY

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, President George
W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. 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. Addi-
tionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency was
selected to receive a brownfields assessment grant.
The target property, the Patclin Chemical site in the
City of Yonkers, a federally designated Empowerment
Zone, has recently been abandoned by its owner. It is a
key site in Yonkers' (population 196,086) plans to
redevelop the Alexander Street waterfront area. The
waterfront district includes approximately 30 sites over
a contiguous  50-acre area adjacent to the Hudson
River. The community immediately affected by condi-
tions in the waterfront district consists of four census
tracts with a total population of 15,595. The tracts
  Assessment Grant
  $44,378 for hazardous substances
  EPA has selected the Yonkers Industrial Develop-
  ment Agency for a brownfields assessment grant.
  Grant funds will be used to prepare a work plan,
  perform site investigations, develop remediation
  plans, and conduct community involvement
  activities at the Patclin Chemical site on
  Alexander Street along the Hudson River water-
  front.
  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 2 Brownfields Team
  212-637-4314
  http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/
  brownfields/
  Grant Recipient: Yonkers Industrial Development
  Agency, NY
  914-377-6619
  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
encompass both the waterfront area and the residen-
tial neighborhoods that stretch several blocks inland.
The poverty rate for the four-tract area is 30 per-
cent, and unemployment is triple the national aver-
age. Forty-seven percent of area residents are
African-American, and 40 percent are Hispanic.
Once the Patclin site has been investigated and
cleaned up, the property and two adjacent sites will
be redeveloped into new housing. The construction
project itself will create many well-paying jobs that
will be accessible to community residents. The new
residential population will help support growth in the
                                                Solid Waste and
                                                Emergency Response
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                        EPA 560-F-05-076
                        May 2005
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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local retail area. In addition, the new housing will
increase the tax base, creating revenues for the city to
spend on education, economic development, and social
programs.

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