United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-01-237
April 2001
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
<>EPA Brownfields Cleanup
Revolving Loan Fund Pilot
Mansfield, OH
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other stakeholders
in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfieldis a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and an active potential for
redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded up to $250,000 over two
years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models;job training pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected by brownfields to facilitate cleanup
of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental field; and, brownfields cleanup revolving
loan fund (BCRLF) programs (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years), to provide financial assistance for the
environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states, tribes, municipalities, and
communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods to promote a unified approach to
site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND
Mansfield is situated in the State of Ohio between
Columbus and Cleveland. The decline of heavy
industry in the late 1970's and 1980's contributed to
Mansfield's high poverty and unemployment rates,
which are 18% and 9% respectively, and has led to the
creation of many brownfields sites. A part of the
Midwest rust belt, the City's primary employment is in
the automobile and metal working industries. Today
numerous brownfields sites keep property values in
adjoining neighborhoods depressed and limit the city's
growth potential.
The City of Mansfield has a brownfields redevelopment
master plan titled the "PR Project-Path to
Revitalization" ("PR Project"). The "PR Project"
focuses on identification, assessment, cleanup,
redevelopment, and prevention of brownfields. The
City of Mansfield used its EPA Assessment
Demonstration Pilot funds to support the first steps in
its PR Project. The City intends to use its BCRLF
award to further support the PR Project and address
sites within a redevelopment zone extending from the
southern edge of downtown north through an industrial
zone, approximately six miles towards the Mansfield
Airport. This corridor represents a mix of commercial
and light and heavy manufacturing and idle and under-
used brownfields properties.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Mansfield, Ohio
Date of Announcement:
April 2001
Amount: $1.0 million
BCRLF Target Area:
"PR Project'
Redevelopment Zone
Contacts:
City of Mansfield
Economic Development Department
(419)775-9794
Region 5 Brownfields
Coordinator
(312)886-3058
Visit the EPA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
www.epa.gov/region05/waste/brown/index.htm
For further information, including specific Pilot contacts, additional
Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and publications
and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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BCRLF OBJECTIVES
The City of Mansfield's BCRLF program will be used
to cleanup brownfields sites as the next step of its PR
Project. Cleanup is expected to attract new industries to
the area, increase employment opportunities, and
restore the City' s tax base. In addition, the program will
improve neighborhood conditions and reduce health
risks. The City is considering two City-owned
properties for its BCRLF program: (1) the former
Mansfield Plastics plant, an 8-acre chrome plating
operation with suspected subsurface contaminates, and
(2) a former pump manufacturing facility with
subsurface contaminates and a 50,000 square foot
building that is slated for re-use. In addition, the Pilot
will make low interest loans available to all eligible
parties in the City's brownfields redevelopment master
plan.
FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS
The City of Mansfield's Economic Development
Department will serve as the lead agency. The Finance
Office will serve as the fund manager. The Economic
Development Department will serve as site manager.
LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES
The City will rely on the Richland Economic
Development Corporation and Mansfield Chamber
of Commerce to help with outreach to prospective
businesses on "The Benefits of Brownfields
Redevelopment." These entities will encourage
businesses and/or individuals looking to relocate or
expand within the community to consider the re-
development of existing property.
Use of BCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of
funding also apply to BCRLF funds.
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot
Apri/2001
Mansfield, OH
EPA 500-F-01-237
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