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EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states.
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield 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. In
2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help
states and communities around the country cleanup and
revitalize brownfields sites. 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 Village of Dixmoor was selected to receive a
brownfields cleanup grant. Dixmoor (population 3,934),
an inner-ring suburb of Chicago, has some of the
highest levels of poverty and unemployment in Illinois.
International competition and industrial modernization
have resulted in closures of many traditional heavy
industries during the last several decades. The closures
have created extensive tracts of vacant industrial
properties, including the target site, and increased
economic stress. About 21 percent of Dixmoor
residents live below the poverty level, and 57 percent of
residents are African-American. Per capita incomes are
about half those of Chicago as a whole, and the
unemployment rate is 16.4 percent. Cleanup of the
Dixmoor Parcels site is expected to reduce
environmental public health concerns, facilitate the
site's redevelopment as part of the Dixmoor-Harvey
Industrial Park, and serve as a model redevelopment for
about 12,000 additional acres of similar brownfields in
the southern Chicago area.
                   Cleanup Grant

                   $150,000 for hazardous substances
                   $50,000 for petroleum

                   EPA has selected the Village of Dixmoor for a
                   brownfields cleanup grant. Hazardous substances
                   and petroleum grant funds will be used to clean up
                   the  13-acre Dixmoor Parcels site  at 14451 S. Wood
                   Street. Former heavy industry on the site included
                   crankshaft and parts manufacturing for the
                   automotive and aircraft industries, forging, and
                   foundry operations. Site soil and  groundwater are
                   contaminated with metals and petroleum. Grant
                   funds also will be used to monitor soil and water
                   quality, and support community involvement
                   activities.

                   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
                   (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).

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

                   Grant Recipient: Village of Dixmoor,IL
                   (773) 269-4023

                   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 negotiated.
                   Therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are
                   subject to change.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-09-217
        May 09

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