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 Brownfields 2005
 Grant  Fact Sheet
       Bridgeport,  CT
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 City of Bridgeport was selected to receive a
brownfields cleanup grant and a revolving loan fund
grant. Bridgeport (population 139,529), located on Long
Island Sound, has been a major industrial center since
the early 19th Century, but now many of those industrial
sites lay dormant. It remains the largest and most
densely populated city in Connecticut. With more than
half the city's residents being of minority heritage, and
a poverty rate of almost 25 percent, Bridgeport is a
federally designated Enterprise Community. Unemploy-
ment rates in several neighborhoods are as high as 25
percent. The city has inventoried more than 200
potential brownfields, many of which are located within
residential areas. There is no available uncontaminated
   Cleanup Grant
   $200,000 tor hazardous substances
  EPA has selected the City of Bridgeport for a
  brownfields cleanup grant. The grant will be used
  to clean up the former Pacelli Trucking site on
  Trowel Street in the city's East End neighborhood.
  A former trucking facility, the half-acre site is
  contaminated with toxic metals, asbestos, and
  arsenic co-mingled with petroleum. Funds also will
  be used for community outreach activities.  .»A4.

  Revolving Loan Fund *New^
  Grant
   $1,000,000 for hazardous substances
   EPA has selected the City of Bridgeport for a
   brownfields revolving loan fund grant. The grant
   will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund
   from which Bridgeport will provide loans and
   subgrants to support cleanup activities for sites
   contaminated with hazardous substances. The
   fund will support the West End, East End, East
   Side, and South End neighborhoods
   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 1 Brownfields Team
  617-918-1221
  http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/
  Grant Recipient: City of Bridgeport, CT
  203-335-1562
  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
land within the city to attract new business and eco-
nomic development. Brownfields redevelopment will
                                                 Solid Waste and
                                                 Emergency Response
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                        EPA560-F-05-165
                        May 2005
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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provided much-needed housing stock, commercial
buildings that will create jobs, and recreational and
green space.

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