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  Brownfields  2004

  Grant  Fact  Sheet

             Miami,  FL




EPA Brownfields  Program

EPA s Brownfields Program empowers states, com-
munities, and other stakeholders in economic develop-
ment 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 Miami was selected  to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. Of the city's 362,470
residents, 29,128 live in the target neighborhood of
Little Haiti, a two-mile corridor in northeast Miami that
contains commercial and industrial facilities intermixed
with low-income residential housing. The Little Haiti
area is an impoverished, immigrant community where
38 percent of the population live below the poverty
level, and 14.9 percent are unemployed or out of the
labor force. This predominantly minority, Haitian-
American community is 82 percent African-American,
and 13 percent Hispanic. It is one of the poorest areas
in the city, with minimal green space or buffers be-
tween residential and commercial/industrial land.
  Assessment Grant
  $200,000 for hazardous substances
  $200,000 for petroleum

  EPA has selected the City of Miami for a
  brownfields assessment grant. Hazardous sub-
  stances grant funds and petroleum grant funds will
  both be used to conduct an inventory of potential
  brownfield sites in the Little Haiti area, and
  conduct eight Phase I and four Phase II assess-
  ments at priority sites. Grant funds will also be
  used to conduct redevelopment and health/risk
  planning, and community outreach activities.
  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 4 Brownfields Team
  404-562-8493
  http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/bf/index.htm

  Grant Recipient: Miami, FL
  305-416-1453

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, the activities
  described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Hundreds of sites in the area could be characterized as
brownfields contaminated with hazardous substances
or petroleum. A lack of resources and opportunities,
deterioration of buildings, unemployment, and the
perception of high crime rates all plague Little Haiti,
creating instability. Grant funds will encourage sustain-
able, ongoing redevelopment, and address issues of
environmental justice, public and environmental health,
and economic development.
                                                  Solid Waste and
                                                  Emergency Response
                                                  (5105T)
                         EPA560-F-04-149
                         June 2004
                         www.epa.gov/brownfields

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