Brownfields 2009  Assessment Grant
              Fact Sheet
              Tampa,  FL
                                                        RECOUERY.GOV
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. On
February  17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into
law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The
Recovery Act is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart our
economy, and create or save millions of jobs. This law
provided stimulus funds to the Brownfields Program to
award grants to evaluate and clean up former industrial
and commercial sites. Under this law, EPA will provide
financial assistance to eligible applicants through four
competitive grant programs: assessment grants, revolving
loan fund grants, cleanup grants,  and job training grants.

Community Description

The City of Tampa was selected to receive two
brownfields assessment grants. Tampa (population
332,888) is focusing its assessment efforts on four
Community Redevelopment Areas: the East Tampa, Drew
Park, Tampa Heights, and Central Park communities
(combined population 32,733). The target areas contain
numerous brownfield sites, including 25 of the city's 69
illegal dump sites. These communities have substantially
higher poverty and unemployment rates than the city and
nation. The poverty rates range from 23 to 69 percent, and
the per capita income in two of the communities is less
than $10,000 annually. In East Tampa, the largest of the
communities, 80.3 percent of residents are
African-American, and 19.3 percent are Hispanic.
Brownfield assessments are expected to facilitate site
cleanup and redevelopment, which in turn will bring
properties back to productive reuse and improve public
health.
                    Assessment Grant
                     $200,000 for hazardous substances
                     (Recovery Act Funding)
                     $200,000 for petroleum (Recovery Act
                     Funding)

                     EPA has selected the City of Tampa for two
                     brownfields assessment grants. Community-wide
                     hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
                     will be used to conduct 26 Phase I and 8 Phase II
                     environmental site assessments. Grant funds also
                     will be used to conduct public health monitoring,
                     cleanup planning, and 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 4 Brownfields Team
                     (404) 562-8792
                     EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site
                     (http://www.epa.gov/region4/was te/bf)

                     Grant Recipient: City of Tampa,FL
                     (813)274-7315

                     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)
EPA 560-F-09-055
      May 2009

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