United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA500-F-00-211
July 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
&EPA Brownfields Cleanup
Revolving Loan Fund Pilot
Trenton, Ml
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
Trenton, Michigan, located ten miles south of Detroit,
is focusing its BCRLF on brownfield sites abutting the
Trenton Channel and the Detroit River. Once the home
of thriving steel and automobile manufacturing
industries, Trenton's economy has suffered from the
closing and downsizing of many manufacturing
facilities. The neighborhoods in the vicinity of the
target sites meet the criteria for inclusion into the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development's low-
and moderate-income neighborhoods. The Detroit
River has been designated an Area of Concern by the
United States/Canada International Joint Commission.
Industrial activities and runoff from Trenton
brownfields contribute to continued pollution of the
Detroit River. Trenton has been working through the
Downriver Area Brownfield Consortium to identify and
assess brownfield sites. Four Phase I and II Baseline
Environmental Assessments have been completed. The
Downriver Area Brownfield Consortium was
designated a Brownfields Assessment Pilot in 1997.
BCRLF OBJECTIVES
Trenton's BCRLF goals are to:
Provide loan funds to encourage brownfields
redevelopment;
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Announcement:
July 2000
Amount: $500,000
BCRLF Target Area:
Brownfields along the Trenton
Channel and Detroit River
Trenton, Michigan
Contacts:
Community Development
Director
(734) 675-8251
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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• Bridge financing gaps to enable completion of
cleanups;
• Give priority to projects with completed
assessments, specific development plans, active
community support, and job creation benefits;
• Oversee the cleanup of at least four privately
owned properties that are known to be
brownfields; and
• Work with site owners to redevelop targeted sites
into mixed use or clean-operating industrial use.
Trenton's BCRLF will target brownfields abutting
the Trenton Channel of the Detroit River.
FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS
The Trenton Brownfields Redevelopment Authority
will serve as the lead agency. The Trenton Community
Development Director will act as both the fund
manager and site manager. The term of loans will be
for five years and repayments will begin one year from
the date of loan closure. The maximum amount of a
loan will be $430,000.
LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES
The BCRLF will leverage Downriver Area Brownfields
Consortium funds for brownfields assessments and
Clean Michigan Initiative waterfront revitalization
grant funds for brownfields cleanups. To further
leverage the BCRLF, Trenton will encourage the use of
its Brownfields Tax Increment Financing Authority to
repay loans and will investigate the use of U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers Section 206 funds to reestablish a
natural shoreline along the Trenton Channel and
Detroit River.
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 Trenton, Michigan
July 2000 EPA500-F-00-211
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