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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 clean up and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA  provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through competitive grant
programs for brownfields site assessment, site cleanup,
revolving loan funds, area-wide planning, and job
training. Additional funding support is provided to state
and tribal response programs through a separate
mechanism.

Brownfields  Area-Wide  Planning
Program

EPA's Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program assists communities in responding to
local brownfields challenges, particularly where
multiple brownfield sites are in close proximity,
connected by infrastructure, and limit the
economic, environmental and social prosperity
of their surroundings.  This program enhances
EPA's core brownfields assistance programs  by
providing grant funding to communities  so they
can perform the research needed to develop an
area-wide plan and implementation strategies for
brownfields assessment, cleanup, and reuse. The
resulting area-wide plans provide direction for
future brownfields area improvements that are
protective of public health and the environment,
economically viable, and reflective of the
community's vision for the area. Recipients
selected under this program will receive up to
$200,000 in EPA grant funding.

                    Project  Description

                     $200,000

                    EPA has selected the Environmental Health
                    Coalition as a Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
                    grant recipient. Environmental Health Coalition
                    will work with the community and other
                    stakeholders to develop a community-driven
                    area-wide plan and implementation strategy to
                    create a green industrial park in a brownfield area.
                    The industrial park will accommodate auto body
                    and auto painting shops currently operating in the
                    residential Westside section of National City. The
                    goal of the process is to plan for the cleanup and
                    redevelopment of a brownfield site as a
                    state-of-the-art green industrial park comprised of
                    relocated businesses, and the transformation of the
                    currently polluted Westside neighborhood into a
                    healthy, thriving residential/commercial area. Key
                    partners for this project include the City of
                    National City, National City Chamber of
                    Commerce, San Diego Organizing Project,
                    Kimball Elementary School, and Paradise Creek
                    Educational Park, Inc.
                    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 9 Brownfields Team
                    (213)244-1821
                    EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
                    (http://www.epa.gov/region9/bro wnfields)

                    Grant Recipient: Environmental Health
                    Coalition,CA
                    619-474-0220 ext 104

                    The information presented in this fact sheet comes
                    from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-13-028
      April 2013

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                                                           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)
EPA 560-F-13-028
       April 2013

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