Brownfields 2009 Assessment Grant Fact  Sheet
              Saginaw County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority,  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

The Saginaw County Brownfield Redevelopment
Authority was selected to receive a brownfields
assessment coalition grant. The county's coalition partners
are the City of Saginaw Brownfield Redevelopment
Authority and the Saginaw County Land Bank Authority
(combined population 206,300). Saginaw County, located
in east-central Michigan, has been severely affected by the
decline of the auto industry. There are 600 potential
brownfield properties in the county, the majority
consisting of abandoned former industrial sites and
declining commercial buildings. The City of Saginaw also
is struggling to address its many vacant residential units.
The city has lost a quarter of its residents during the past
20 years. The poverty rate in the county is almost four
percent higher than the national average. Assessment of
brownfields is expected to stimulate economic growth in
the county by removing an important barrier to
brownfields cleanup and redevelopment.
                    Assessment Grant

                    $500,000 for hazardous substances
                    $500,000 for petroleum

                    EPA has selected the Saginaw County Brownfield
                    Redevelopment Authority for a brownfields
                    assessment coalition grant. Community-wide
                    hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
                    will be used to conduct 70 Phase I and Phase II
                    environmental site assessments. Grant funds also
                    will be used to conduct 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 5 Brownfields Team
                     (312)886-7576
                     EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
                     (http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfiel ds)

                     Grant Recipient: Saginaw County Brownfield
                     Redevelopment Authority,MI
                     (989)839-2031

                     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-09-261
      May 2009

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