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  Brownfields  2004

  Grant Fact  Sheet

  East Bay Asian Local

         Development

          Corporation,

        San Pablo,  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 East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
was selected to receive  a brownfields cleanup grant.
San Pablo's population of 30,215 is over 68 percent
minority, with Asian and Hispanic populations repre-
senting the fastest-growing ethnic groups. Over the
past two decades, a large number of manufacturing
jobs have been lost in the region due to plant closures
and relocations. The neighborhoods surrounding the
targeted site struggle with poverty, high housing costs,
and high unemployment rates. More than 18 percent of
city residents live below the poverty level, and the
  Cleanup Grant
  $200,000 for hazardous substances
  EPA has selected the East Bay Asian Local
  Development Corporation for a brownfields
  cleanup grant. The grant will be used to clean up a
  2.6-acre trucking and container storage facility
  located at the site of a proposed seven-acre Giant
  Road Family Apartments complex, a planned
  mixed-income residential community. The site,
  which has formerly been used for various indus-
  trial and commercial purposes including transpor-
  tation of petroleum and tetraethyl lead, requires
  additional surface and subsurface remediation to
  build 86 units of affordable multi-family housing.
  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: East Bay Asian Local Develop-
  ment Corporation, CA
  510-287-5353
  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
unemployment rate is 9.5 percent. Over half of the
city's residents spend more than 30 percent of their
income on housing, and 10,000 households are on the
waiting list for public housing. Once cleaned up, the
site will be redeveloped into the Giant Road Family
Apartment complex, which will provide affordable
housing units to disadvantaged community members.
The residential complex also will incorporate smart
growth and green building concepts into its design.
                                                Solid Waste and
                                                Emergency Response
                                                (5105T)
                        EPA560-F-04-128
                        June 2004
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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