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Brownfields 2008
Grant Fact Sheet
Michigan Department
of Environmental
Quality, Detroit, Ml
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. Abrownfield 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 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 Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
was selected to receive two brownfields cleanup
grants. The Department of Environmental Quality
(state population 10,095,643) will clean up two sites in
the City of Detroit (population 871,121), a federally
designated Renewal Community. Detroit is the largest
city in the state but remains far below the state aver-
ages for many economic measures. The poverty rate in
the city is 30.1 percent, and the unemployment rate in
Wayne County, where Detroit is located, is nine
percent. There are 7,437 abandoned properties in the
Cleanup Grants
$220,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality for two brownfields
cleanup grants. Petroleum grant funds will be used
to clean up the former John's Tire Repair site at
665 East Philadelphia Street and the former
Samuel B. Jolly gas station at 3445 West Warren
Avenue, both in Detroit. The John's Tire Repair
site was formerly a filling station with under-
ground storage tanks and is contaminated with
petroleum substances, including volatile organic
compounds. The Samuel B. Jolly site had been
used since 1897 as a delivery service, gas station,
and towing service. It contains underground
storage tanks and is contaminated with petroleum
substances, including benzene and xylenes. Grant
funds also will be used to develop cleanup plans
and 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 at: www.epa.gov/
brownfields.
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-7576
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields
Grant Recipient: Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality
517-373-4805
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 negoti-
ated. Therefore, activities described in this fact
sheet are subject to change.
city, of which more than 260 are potentially contami-
nated. The city also contains at least 40 abandoned
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-08-257
July 2008
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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underground storage tank sites. The former John's Tire
Repair site is in a neighborhood where the poverty rate
is 40 percent, and the per capita income is $8,363.
Five schools are within about half a mile of the site.
When the site is cleaned up, it is expected to provide
temporary or permanent greenspace. The former
Samuel B. Jolly gas station is in a neighborhood where
the poverty rate is 44 percent, and the per capita
income is $9, 111. Two schools are within about half a
mile of the site. When the site is cleaned up, it may be
redeveloped for mixed residential-commercial use or
greenspace.
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