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V'/ Riverside, CA
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
Riverside was selected to receive a brownfields
assessment grant. Of the city's 264,541 residents,
21,768 live in the Eastside neighborhood, where
unemployment and poverty rates are several times the
national average. The property houses wrecking yards,
metal recycling facilities, aging industrial buildings, and
abuts a low-income and minority residential area. The
assessment will start the second phase of the Riverside
Marketplace Redevelopment project. The project began
in the 1980s and has successfully redeveloped about 85
acres of a 100-acre brownfield. Redevelopment of the
property into a business park is expected to spur
redevelopment of nearby parcels, generate new jobs,
and increase tax revenues.
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected Riverside for a brownfields
assessment grant. Hazardous substances grant funds
and petroleum grant funds will both be used to
evaluate the 26 parcels in a 15.2-acre brownfields
property in the city's Eastside. Funds will be used to
identify the most impacted parcels for Phase I
assessments, and conduct community outreach on
the assessment process, including findings and
conclusions.
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 9 Brownfields Team
(415) 972-3091
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region9/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Riverside,CA
(909) 826-5964
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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