Brownfields Area-Wide Plannini
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Pilot Project Fact Sheet
Ironbound Community Corporation,
Newark, NJ
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communi-
ties, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent,
assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brown-
fields. A brownfield 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. In 2002, the Small
Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization
Act was passed to help states and communities around
the country clean up and revitalize brownfields sites. Un-
der this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible
applicants to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot
Program
EPA is piloting an area-wide planning approach to com-
munity brownfield challenges, which recognizes that
revitalization of the area surrounding the brownfield site(s)
is just as critical to the successful reuse of the property as
assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of an individual
site. The pilot program will help further community-based
partnership efforts within underserved or economically
disadvantaged neighborhoods by confronting local envi-
ronmental and public health challenges related to brown-
fields, while creating a planning framework to advance
economic development and job creation.
Pilot Project Description
EPA has selected the Ironbound Community Corporation as a
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Program recipient. The
Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) will focus its project
on the Ironbound community, in the East Ward of Newark,
home to over 50,000 residents. The community contains the
remnants of a once vibrant economy, anchored by a large
brewery that closed in the 1970s. Many manufacturing opera-
tions have closed, leaving behind contaminated sites and
deteriorating infrastructure. The area is economically distressed
with the poverty rate as high as 55 percent. The community
Pilot Program Description
EPA is awarding approximately $4 million
in total across 23 recipients. Recipients will
each receive up to approximately $175,000
in EPA cooperative agreement and/or direct
technical assistance. Assistance will help
recipients initiate development of an area-
wide plan and identify next steps and resources
needed to implement the plan.
Contacts
For additional information, brownfields news and
events, and publications and links, visit the EPA
Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.aov/brownfieldsy
EPA's Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
(202) 566-0633
Assistance Recipient:
Ironbound Community Corporation, NJ
(973)589-3353, ext. 213
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from
the project proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of
this information. The cooperative agreement and/or direct
technical assistance have not yet been negotiated. Activi-
ties described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
contains more than 100 brownfields, many located near
residential and recreational areas. The ICC will build upon
existing revitalization and redevelopment efforts to develop a
brownfields area-wide plan to create sustainable recreational
and mixed-use development throughout the Ironbound
community. Development of the plan is expected to facilitate
brownfield assessment activities, identify cleanup goals based
on the anticipated reuse of properties, assess reuse and
linkages to infrastructure, and reconnect the community to local
job opportunities, commercial, and recreational areas.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-10-003M
October 2010
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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