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                           Brownfields
                           Supplemental Assistance
                           City  of Toledo,  OH
BACKGROUND

EPA awarded the City of Toledo supplemental assistance
for its Brownfields AssessmentDemonstrationPilot. Like
many older cities in the Midwest, Toledo has seen its
factories depart from their downtown locations, leaving
behind  vacant buildings  that have created health and
safety risks and lowered the quality of life in surrounding
neighborhoods. The city has experienced a steady decline
in population over the last 25 years. In addition, Toledo's
unemploymentrateis 10 percent higher than the statewide
average, and the median household income in the city's
brownfields neighborhoods is 25 percent lower than the
statewide median income.

While the city has been successful with industrial and
commercial redevelopment, residential redevelopment of
brownfields sites has not been common. This supplemental
grant will be used to continue assessment work on a
complex of derelict properties. One of the properties to be
assessed is the former Doehler Jarvis manufacturing
facility. This site, which is in a low-income minority
neighborhood, is being considered for a planned residential
housing project. The grant also will be used to support the
expansion of Toledo's Urban Setting Designation (USD)
to other brownfields areas. The Urban Setting Designation
is a state designation that limits the liability of the owners
of properties located over shallow groundwater that has
been contaminated from past industrial land uses. As long
as it can be shown that there are no potential exposures to
contaminated shallow groundwater, the law helps promote
future development of brownfields without jeopardizing
protection of public health or the environment.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The first objective of the supplemental assistance is to
conduct a  Phase II  site  assessment and remediation
planning for the 12 parcels comprising the 13-acre Doehler
Jarvis site. The city anticipates developing 80 affordable
single-family homes on this site. A Phase I assessment of
   PILOT SNAPSHOT
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    City of Toledo, Ohio
Date of Announcement:
May 2002


Amount: $150,000

Profile: Toledo will use the
supplemental assistance to
conduct assessments and
remediation planning for the
Doehler Jarvis site and to expand
Toledo's Urban Setting
Designation.
   Contacts:

   Toledo Division of
   Environmental Services
   (419)936-3757
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA Region 5
(312)886-7257
        Visit the E PA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
          http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/

      Forfurther information, including specific Pilot contacts,
    additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
    publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
             www.epa.gov/brownfields

this older industrial area was conducted as part of the
original Pilot. The Pilot's second objective is to compile the
information necessary to expand Toledo's USD in order
to facilitate additional brownfields redevelopment.

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Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Conducting aPhase II environmental site assessment of
  the Doehler Jarvis site;

• Conducting community outreach and public involvement
  activities; and

• Collecting and compiling information for the expansion
  of Toledo's Urban Setting Designation.
ThecooperativeagreementforthisPilothasnotyetbeennegotiated;therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
                                                               Solid Waste            EPA 500-F-02-098
                                                               and Emergency         May 2002
                                                               Response (5105)       www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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