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  Brownfields  2004

  Grant  Fact Sheet

      Los Angeles,  CA




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 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. Additionally, funding
support is provided to state and tribal response pro-
grams through a separate mechanism.

Community Description

The City of Los Angeles was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. Los Angeles (population
3.6 million) is a city where unemployment exceeds nine
percent and more than 18 percent of the households
live below the poverty line. Low-income individuals and
families are clustered primarily in heavily minority
communities where unemployment and poverty levels
far exceed these levels. Both Rockwood Park, a
neighborhood within a federal Renewal Community,
and East Wilmington Park (total population 475,000)
are 97 percent non-white, primarily Hispanic. Approxi-
mately 40 percent of the residents in these neighbor-
  Assessment Grant
  $200,000 for petroleum

  EPA has selected the City of Los Angeles for a
  brownfields assessment grant. Grant funds will be
  used to conduct two Phase II site assessments:
  one at a former oil field in Rockwood Park and
  the other at a railway site in East Wilmington
  Park. The city will also conduct a petroleum
  survey and review of noncompliant, obsolete
  underground storage tanks at targeted sites in
  disadvantaged communities around Los Angeles.
  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
  415-972-3188
  http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/

  Grant Recipient: Los Angeles, CA
  213-978-0888

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
hoods have incomes below the poverty level. Assess-
ment of these petroleum sites will take the city one
step closer to improving the quality of life for the
residents of these disadvantaged neighborhoods by
providing them with much needed goods, services, and
open space.
                                                 Solid Waste and
                                                 Emergency Response
                                                 (5105T)
                        EPA560-F-04-145
                        June 2004
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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