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Brownfields 2004 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
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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. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed
into law the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields
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 Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority was selected
to receive a brownfields assessment grant. Detroit
(population 1 million) has several federal
Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities
(EZ/EC). A significant portion of the West Detroit
Riverfront area in southwest Detroit is in a federal EZ.
The population of southwest Detroit near the project
area is about 80,000. Detroit's poverty rate is 26
percent, 16 percent higher than that of the state, and
minorities make up 88 percent of the population.
International trade is expected to double over the next
15 years, and exert great pressure on an already
distressed riverfront community with aging
infrastructure and many brownfields. Detroit alone has
thousands of abandoned and vacant properties, many of
which are along the Detroit River, an American
Heritage River. In addition, over 2,000 brownfields
exist in Wayne county.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the Detroit/Wayne County Port
Authority for a brownfields assessment grant.
Hazardous substance funds will be used to conduct a
site inventory, perform Phase I and II and baseline
environmental assessments, prepare redevelopment
plans, and conduct outreach in southwest Detroit
and the West Detroit Riverfront. Petroleum grant
funds will be used to conduct a site inventory, Phase
I and II and baseline environmental assessments,
redevelopment planning, and outreach for sites in the
same target area.
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/R5 Brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Detroit/Wayne County Port
Authority, MI
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority
(313)331-3842
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority
(313)331-3842
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.
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