Brownfields 201 1 Cleanup Grant Fact Sheet
    ™          Chicago Housing Authority, IL
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 Chicago Housing Authority was selected to receive a
brownfields cleanup grant. The Housing Authority is
targeting a site in the Bronzeville community of Chicago
(city population 2,851,268). The site is in a large public
housing development known as Stateway Gardens that is
being razed. In the mid-1980s, the Stateway  Gardens
development was located in the sixth most disadvantaged
census tract in the nation. In 2000, the Housing Authority
began a long process of demolishing the Stateway
Gardens. Bronzeville residents are primarily
African-American, and most live below the poverty level.
When the target site is cleaned up, it will be part of the
larger, citywide Plan for Transformation to provide
neighborhoods with community amenities. The city plans
to redevelop the target site and the rest of the Stateway
Gardens property with 128 new units of mixed-income
housing.
                     Cleanup Grant

                     $200,000 for hazardous substances

                     EPA has selected the Chicago Housing Authority
                     for a brownfields cleanup grant. Hazardous
                     substances grant funds will be used to clean up the
                     Park Boulevard Phase 2A site at 3555 South State
                     Street. The 1.8-acre site originally contained
                     commercial, residential, and light industrial
                     buildings, including an automotive repair facility,
                     mattress factory, and lumber shop. Site soil is
                     contaminated with heavy metals and polynuclear
                     aromatic hydrocarbons. Grant funds also will be
                     used to conduct 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: Chicago Housing Authority,IL
                     312-913-7608

                     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)
E PA 560-F-128-064
       May 2011

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