United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
 EPA 500-F-00-014
 April 2000
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
   &EPA   Brownfields Supplemental
                   Assistance
                   Downriver Community Conference,  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

EPA awarded the Downriver Area Brownfield
Consortium (DABC) supplemental assistance for its
Brownfields Assessment Pilot and additional funding
for assessments at a brownfield property to be used
for greenspace purposes.  The DABC consists of
nine communities in southeastern Michigan. The
purpose of the DABC is to develop, test, and implement
a program for Downriver communities to redevelop
brownfield properties.  The communities that make
up the DABC are varied, ranging  from older urban
communities to suburban communities with industrial
areas.  These communities also range in population
from 20,000 to  90,000.   Industrial use  in these
communities ranges from light to heavy.

Through its Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative,
the DABC has played a role in the construction of
facilities for commercial, industrial, residential, and
recreational use.  These facilities  have provided
employment opportunities, facilitated addressing the
problem of contaminatedproperties,andadded value
to the city's tax base.
PILOT SNAPSHOT

                       Date of Announcement:
                       March 2000

                       Amount: $150,000
                       Greenspace: $50,000

                       Profile: The Pilot will target
                       several  sites in  nine
                       communitiesin the Downriver
DownnverCommumtyConference,  AreaBrownfie|dConsortium
        Michigan          (DABC)
Contacts:
Development Department
Southgate, Michigan
(734)281-0700
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 5
(312)886-1960
     Visit the EPA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
        http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/

   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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OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The DABC will use the supplemental assistance at
priority sites for which cleanup and redevelopment
can improve environmental quality, enhance the tax
base, and meet the overall needs of the community. In
addition, by performing these assessments, the DABC
proj ects will become eligible for additional Michigan
Department of Environmental  Quality (MDEQ)
funding, which is used for cleanup activities.

The Pilot will use the greenspace funding to target a
25-acre privately  held  parcel that has state and
national historical significance as an 18th century
settlement and  site of Michigan's largest battles as
part of the U.S. Northwest Campaign in the  1800s. It
is  the intent  of DABC to facilitate planning and
assessment actions to revert the vacant, former paper
production facility on the property to an open space
formonumentation, interpretation, andarcheological
research.

To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

• Consider several  criteria to identify potential sites
 within the DABC for redevelopment;

• Conduct Phase I  and Phase II site assessments to
 determine the nature and extent of contamination;
 and

• Prepare redevelopment reports and plans  based on
 the results on the assessments and the  intended
 future use of the  sites.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
 Brownfields Supplemental Assistance
 April 2000
Downriver Community Conference, Michigan
                   EPA 500-F-00-014

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