United States
                      Environmental
                      Protection Agency
                      Washington, D.C. 20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5101)
  EPA500-F-00-148
  May 2000
  www.epa.gov/brownfields/
 <>EPA      Brownfields  Cleanup
                       Revolving   Loan  Fund   Pilot
                                                                   Lockland,  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 brownfield is 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 $200,000 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, cleanup revolving loan fund
programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds to make loans 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

Between 1990 and 1995, when several of the largest
industrial companies  abandoned their plants, the
Village of Lockland lost 2,000 jobs and more than 40
percent of its workforce. The Village also has suffered
a 40 percent decrease in overall property tax revenue.
More  than 75  percent of Lockland's land  area is
designated as brownfields. Two-thirds of Lockland's
households fall below the County's median  income
level and 17 percent of its residents live in poverty.
Lockland was awarded a Brownfields Assessment Pilot
in 1999.

BCRLF OBJECTIVES

The Village of Lockland's BCRLF goal is to assist in
restoring the Village's tax base. In pursuit of this goal,
the Village hopes to encourage the redevelopment of
non-productive  properties;  maximize  the  use  of
available local, State, and Federal incentives; encourage
the  growth  of  existing businesses; and encourage
public-private  partnerships to spur redevelopment.
Lockland's BCRLF will target the American Tissue site
and the Millcreek Sports and Commerce Park site.
Other potential  sites include the Celotex II site, the
Stearns site, and any of 15 possible properties in the
Shepherd Drive Focus Area.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
                    Date of Announcement:
                    May 2000

                    Amount: $500,000

                    BCRLF Target Area:
                    Village of Lockland
                    Lockland, Ohio
Contacts:

Village Administrator
Village of Lockland
(513)761-1124
Region 5 BCRLF
Coordinator
(312)886-7576
      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:
          http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS

The Village of Lockland will serve as lead agency and
site manager.  The fund manager  will be selected
through a competitive process. Loan amounts will be
capped at $150,000 and loan volume is expected to
range from three to five loans during the initial loan
period.

LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES

The  Village of Lockland  has  leveraged nearly $4
million for the remediation  and redevelopment of two
brownfield properties. Funding sources have included
the Ohio  Department  of Development,  Hamilton
County, the Ohio Water Development Authority, the
Ohio   Kentucky  Indiana  Regional  Council  of
Governments, and the Ohio Water Pollution Control
Fund/Ohio   EPA.    Additionally,  Lockland  will
contribute  administrative  resources to the BCRLF
program.
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                                                       Lockland, Ohio
May 2000                                                                              EPA500-F-00-148

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