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| Brownfields 2015 Area-Wide Planning Grant Fact Sheet
South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, NY
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 clean up and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through competitive grant
programs for brownfields site assessment, site cleanup,
revolving loan funds, area-wide planning, and job training.
Additional funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program
EPA's Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program assists communities in responding
to local brownfields challenges,
particularly where multiple brownfield
sites are in close proximity, connected by
infrastructure, and limit the economic,
environmental and social prosperity of
their surroundings. This program enhances
EPA's core brownfields assistance
programs by providing grant funding to
communities so they can perform the
research needed to develop an area-wide
plan and implementation strategies for
brownfields assessment, cleanup, and
reuse. The resulting area-wide plans
provide direction for future brownfields
area improvements that are protective of
public health and the environment,
economically viable, and reflective of the
community's vision for the area.
Project Description
$200,000.00
EPA has selected the South Bronx Overall
Economic Development Corporation (SoBRO) as
a Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant
recipient. SoBRO will work with the community
and other stakeholders to develop an area-wide
plan and implementation strategy for the Bronx
River-Sheridan Expressway Corridor. This
750-acre area has over 28 acres of brownfields
and a population of nearly 75,000 that has
significantly higher unemployment and poverty
rates than both Bronx County and the New York
City metropolitan area. The proposed Area-Wide
Planning project will build from the U.S.
Department of Transportation-funded 2013
Sheridan-Hunts Point Land Use and
Transportation Study, and create a detailed
framework for industrial, residential, commercial,
and open space uses that seeks to unite and
revitalize brownfield neighborhoods on both sides
of the Bronx River. The project will identify
potential brownfield clusters, establish a
community-driven vision for their repurposing,
and identify potential issues and resources for
their remediation. Key partners who will work
with SoBRO on this project include the Bronx
Office of the NYC Department of City Planning,
and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice.
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 2 Brownfields Team
(212)637-3260
EPA Region 2 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-new-jersey-n
ew-york-puerto-rico-and-us-virgin)
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-15-006
March 2015

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Grant Recipient: South Bronx Overall Economic Development
Corporation, NY
(718)732-7561
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
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
Solid Waste
EPA 560-F-15-006
March 2015

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