Brownfields  2014  Assessment  Grant Fact Sheet
              Northeast Ohio Four County Regional Planning and
              Development Organization, Summit County, OH
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.
                    Assessment Grant

                    $450,000 for hazardous substances
                    $150,000 for petroleum

                    EPA has selected the Northeast Ohio Four County
                    Regional Planning and Development Organization
                    for a brownfields assessment coalition grant.
                    Community-wide hazardous substances and
                    petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct up
                    to five Phase I and up to 11 Phase II environmental
                    site assessments, and prepare up to three cleanup
                    plans. Grant funds also will be used to support
                    community outreach activities. Coalition partners
                    are the Development Finance Authority of
                    Summit County and Summit County Public
                    Health. The coalition will conduct assessment
                    activities in Summit County.
                                                    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
                                                    312-886-7257
                                                    EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
                                                    (http://www.epa.gov/region5brow nfields/)

                                                    Grant Recipient: Northeast Ohio Four County
                                                    Regional Planning and Development Organization
                                                    330-252-0337

                                                    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-14-124
      May 2014

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