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  Brownfields 2008

  Grant  Fact Sheet

         Gahanna,   OH


EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. Abrownfield 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. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed
into law the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under this law, EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through four competitive grant programs: assessment
grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and
job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through
a separate mechanism.

Community Description

The City of Gahanna was selected to receive a
brownfields revolving loan fund grant. Located in the
Columbus metropolitan area in central Ohio, Gahanna
(population 34,469) is a suburban community that has a
shrinking supply of developable land. Despite the city's
small size, it contains at least 71 brownfields.
Brownfields inhibit development in commercial and
industrial areas that provide much of the city's tax
revenue. They also threaten the region's shared natural
resource, the Big Walnut Creek. Several brownfields
are in the city's Industrial District where Jefferson
Township's public water supply well field is located.
The city will target brownfields that have the greatest
potential to affect this drinking water supply.
Brownfields cleaned up through the RLF grant are
expected to spur development on tracts of underused
 Revolving Loan Fund
 Grant
 $942,000 for hazardous substances
 $58,000 for petroleum

 EPA has selected the City of Gahanna for a
 brownfields revolving loan fund grant. The grant
 will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from
 which the City of Gahanna will provide loans and
 subgrants to support cleanup activities for sites
 contaminated with petroleum and hazardous
 substances. Grant funds also will be used to market
 the revolving loan fund and conduct and oversee
 site cleanups.
 Contacts
 For further information, including specific grant
 contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
 news and events, and publications and links, visit
 the EPA Brownfields web site at: www.epa.gov/
 brownfields.

 EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
 312-886-7576
 http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields

 Grant Recipient: City of Gahanna, OH
 614-342-4015

 The information presented in this fact sheet comes
 from the grant proposal;  EPA cannot attest to the
 accuracy of this information. The cooperative
 agreement for the grant has not yet been negoti-
 ated. Therefore, activities described in this fact
 sheet are subject to change.
and abandoned properties that have the potential to
generate positive economic and environmental
impacts on the city.
                                                 Solid Waste and
                                                 Emergency Response
                                                 (5105T)
                        EPA560-F-08-137
                        April 2008
                        www.epa.gov/brownfields

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