Brownfields 2014  Assessment Grant  Fact Sheet
              Lorain 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 Lorain County for a brownfields
                    assessment coalition grant. Community-wide
                    hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds
                    will be used to conduct 24 Phase I and 17 Phase II
                    environmental site assessments. Grant funds also
                    will be used to develop a county-wide site
                    inventory, prepare four cleanup plans, and support
                    community outreach activities. Lorain County's
                    coalition partners are the Village of Wellington
                    and the Cities of Avon Lake, Lorain, North
                    Ridgeville, and Oberlin.
                                                      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: Lorain County,OH
                                                      440-328-2323

                                                      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-14-102
      May 2014

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