^    Brownfields 2011 Cleanup Grant Fact  Sheet
    ™         Lenawee County, 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

Lenawee County was selected to receive a brownfields
cleanup grant. Located in south-central Michigan,
Lenawee County (population 98,890) began
experiencing job losses and plant closures as its
manufacturing sector declined in the 1980s. As
companies closed or moved away, contaminated former
industrial sites were left abandoned and vacant. The
target site is in the City of Adrian, west of the
downtown area, and is surrounded by residential
neighborhoods. Contamination from the site poses
significant environmental and public health threats,
including threats to the area water supply as the site is
within the River Raisin Watershed. More than 1,000
jobs were lost recently when four businesses in Adrian
closed. The unemployment rate in the city is 15 percent.
Once the target site is cleaned up, a local firm is
interested in expanding its operations onto the site,
which would create more than 120 jobs, increase the tax
base, and help reverse the trend of disinvestment in the
surrounding neighborhoods.
                   Cleanup Grant

                   $200,000 for hazardous substances

                   EPA has selected Lenawee County for a brownfields
                   cleanup grant. Hazardous substances grant funds will
                   be used to clean up the 3.3-acre former Buckeye
                   Products site at 410 East Beecher Street in the City
                   of Adrian. From the mid-1960s to the early 1990s,
                   the site was a metal plating facility. It was later used
                   for plastic processing. Site groundwater is
                   contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), and site
                   soil is contaminated with TCE, toluene, cyanide, and
                   metals. Grant funds also will be used to support
                   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: Lenawee County,MI
                   517-264-4857

                   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)
E PA 560-F-128-083
         May 11

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