Brownfields 2010 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
St. Clair County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, Ml
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 St. Clair County Brownfield Redevelopment
Authority was selected to receive a brownfields
assessment coalition grant. The Authority's coalition
partners are the St. Clair Land Bank Authority, the
Cities of Port Huron and Marysville, and Port Huron
Township. St. Clair County (population 168,894) is
located along the east coast of Michigan's "thumb"
adjacent to Lake Huron. The county's largest city, Port
Huron, serves as a crossroads for several major
expressways, rail lines, and shipping routes linking
Canada and the United States. Despite the county's
prime location and natural resources, a decline in the
automotive and other manufacturing sectors has
resulted in dramatic population losses, high
unemployment rates, and a significant increase in the
number of brownfield sites. Unemployment rates in the
county and Port Huron City are 19.2 and 24.8 percent,
respectively. Brownfield assessments will increase
public awareness about the sites, provide data to support
cleanup activities, and help leverage additional
redevelopment funding.
Assessment Grant $689,000 for hazardous
substances $311,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the St. Clair County Brownfield
Redevelopment Authority for a brownfields
assessment coalition grant. Community-wide
hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
conduct up to 35 Phase I and 22 Phase II
environmental site assessments. Petroleum grant
funds will be used to conduct up to 20 Phase I and
14 Phase II environmental site assessments. Funds
from both grants also will be used to develop an
inventory of brownfields, prepare cleanup plans, and
conduct community outreach 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: St. Clair County Brownfield
Redevelopment Authority,MI
(810) 989-6950 ext 6228
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-10-110
Apr 10
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