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  Brownfields  2007

  Grant  Fact Sheet

         National City

           Community

         Development

     Commission,  CA


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 National City Community Development Commis-
sion was selected to receive a brownfields assessment
grant. National City (population 54,200) is in the
southwest region of San Diego County, nine miles north
of the Mexican border. The Westside Neighborhood,
targeted for assessment, is the poorest neighborhood in
the county. The median household income is 55 percent
of the county median, and about 31 percent of resi-
dents live below the poverty level. Over 95 percent of

 Assessment Grant
 $200,000 for hazardous substances
 EPA has selected the National City Community
 Development Commission for a brownfields
 assessment grant. Hazardous substances grant
 funds will be used to develop an area-wide
 inventory of sites, perform between ten and 15
 Phase I and up to five Phase II environmental site
 assessments, and conduct community outreach
 activities in the city's Westside Neighborhood.
 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 9 Brownfields Team
 415-972-3092
 http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/
 index.html
 Grant Recipient: National City Community
 Development Commission, CA
 619-336-4250
 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.
students in the local elementary school are of Hispanic
origin. Many of the neighborhood homes are located
immediately adjacent to the industrial and commercial
businesses that use or store hazardous materials.
Assessment of brownfields is essential to determine
those sites that are impacting public health.
Brownfields redevelopment is needed to provide
affordable housing and mixed-use projects and in-
crease the walkability of the neighborhood.
                                               Solid Waste and
                                               Emergency Response
                                               (5105T)
                       EPA560-F-07-119
                       May 2007
                       www.epa.gov/brownfields

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