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Brownfields 2003
Grant Fact Sheet
Focus: Hope
Revitalization, Detroit, Ml
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
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. On January 11, 2002, President George
W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the
Brownfields 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
Focus: Hope Revitalization was selected to receive a
cleanup grant. This nonprofit organization has targeted
an obsolete structure in Detroit's inner city, left behind
by the city's industrial past. The 2,550 residents
surrounding the target site are predominantly minorities
who suffer from a poverty rate of 43 percent. Cleanup
of the site will provide access and parking for the
adjacent Yellow Pages building, which will house
Focus: Hope's Information Technology Center after
renovation. Focus: Hope has established mechanisms
for involving affected communities and has already
reached out to the neighborhood surrounding the site.
Cleanup Grants
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected Focus: Hope Revitalization for
a cleanup grant. The grant will be used to help
clean up the deteriorated Federal Engineering
Building at 850 Oakman Boulevard in Detroit,
Michigan. Contamination of the site occurred
during 45 years of use as a stamping press
manufacturing facility. Assessments of the site
have identified asbestos, transformers, process
waste pits, sumps with unknown contents, and
probable underground storage tanks.
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 at: www.epa.gov/
brownfields.
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-7576
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
Grant Recipient: Focus: Hope Revitalization, MI
313-494-4306
Prior to receipt of these funds in fiscal year 2003, Focus:
Hope Revitalization has not received brownfields grant
funding.
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not yet been
negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are
subject to change.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 500-F-03-095
June 2003
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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