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 Brownfields  2006

  Grant Fact Sheet

 California  Department

  of Toxic Substances

 Control,  Los Angeles

   and  San  Francisco,

                 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. 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 California Department of Toxic Substances
Control (DTSC) was selected to receive a brownfields
revolving loan fund grant. The target communities in
the state (population 35,400,000) are the densely
populated cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco as
well as rural areas throughout the state that have been
  Revolving  Loan  Fund
  Grant
  $2,500,000 for hazardous substances
  $500,000 for petroleum

  EPA has selected the California Department of
  Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) for a
  brownfields revolving loan fund grant. The grant
  will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund
  from which the DTSC will provide loans and
  subgrants to support cleanup activities at sites
  contaminated with hazardous substances and
  petroleum. Grant funds also will be used to
  conduct cleanup activities, and implement
  community involvement activities in Los Ange-
  les, San Francisco, and rural areas of the state.
  The coalition partners are the City of Los Ange-
  les and the Redevelopment Agency of the City
  and County of San Francisco.
  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
  415-972-3092
  http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/
  index.html

  Grant Recipient: California Department of Toxic
  Substances Control, CA
  916-324-3148

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
affected by the closure of businesses and industries. San
Francisco and Los Angeles contain some of the state's
most disadvantaged neighborhoods, and have large
                                             Solid Waste and
                                             Emergency Response
                                             (5105T)
                        EPA560-F-06-172
                        May 2006
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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minority populations. Both cities include federally
designated Renewal Communities and Enterprise
Communities, and Los Angeles also includes a feder-
ally designated Empowerment Zone. Los Angeles has
an unemployment rate of 9.3 percent, and 18.6 percent
of the households live below the poverty level. Rural
areas of the state have poverty levels as high as 19
percent. California has an estimated 100,000
brownfields sites. More than 50,000 mining sites have
contaminated streams, soil, and groundwater with
metals and carcinogens. Brownfields redevelopment
will create jobs, increase tax revenues and commercial
activity, help meet housing demands, improve the
health of urban centers, strengthen communities in
rural areas, and reduce health risks.

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