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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