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 Brownfields  2006

  Grant Fact  Sheet

   Toledo and  Toledo-

   Lucas County Port

        Authority,  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 the
Brownfields 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. Addi-
tionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.

Community Description

The City of Toledo and Toledo-Lucas County Port
Authority was selected to receive two brownfields
assessment grants. Toledo (population 313,619) is an
older industrial city in northwestern Ohio with ap-
proximately 200 brownfields sites, in addition to the
city's abandoned gas stations. The vast majority of
these commercial and industrial sites are located in the
city's Brownfield Impact Area (BIA), an area that is
home to nearly 38 percent of Toledo's residents.
Twenty-six percent of residents in the BIA live in
poverty, and the unemployment rate in the BIA is
  Assessment Grants
  $200,000 for hazardous substances
  $200,000 for petroleum

  EPA has selected the City of Toledo and Toledo-
  Lucas County Port Authority for two brownfields
  assessment grants. Hazardous substances grant
  funds will be used to conduct community out-
  reach activities, perform Phase I and II environ-
  mental site assessments, and prepare cleanup
  plans for sites in the Brownfield Impact Area of
  the city. Funds also will be used to investigate
  and evaluate the impacts of exposures on at-risk
  populations and to monitor institutional controls
  at given  sites. Petroleum grant funds will be used
  to perform the same tasks at sites with potential
  petroleum contamination.
  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/R5 Brownfields/

  Grant Recipient: City of Toledo/Toledo-Lucas
  County Port Authority, OH
  419-936-3757

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
approximately ten percent. Residents currently located
in the BIA are increasingly becoming elderly or chroni-
cally unemployed or underemployed. As a result, many
local businesses have closed or relocated. Assessment
and eventual cleanup of the BIA's dilapidated and
vacant commercial and industrial properties will help
facilitate redevelopment of the brownfields properties,
                                                Solid Waste and
                                                Emergency Response
                                                (5105T)
                         EPA560-F-06-136
                         May 2006
                         www.epa.gov/brownfields

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improve public health, and enhance the environmental
quality of the area. Revitalization of the BIA will
provide employment opportunities to neighborhood
residents, raise property values, and boost the local tax
base.

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