W5 Brownfields 1998 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet Dayton, OH EPA Brownfields Initiative 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. Background EPA selected the City of Dayton for a Brownfields Pilot. Dayton (population 182,005) was a prosperous factory town until the late 1960s, when jobs and workers began moving to the suburbs-a demographic shift that has occurred in many U.S. cities. Between 1970 and 1990, the city lost more than 45,000 jobs and 60,000 residents. Today, abandoned factories are a common sight. The average income in the city is 74 percent of the national average, and the minority population is 42 percent. Several poor neighborhoods in the city have been designated as federal Enterprise Communities. Dayton has identified 10 area brownfields, covering more than 135 acres of land, as priority sites for cleanup and redevelopment. These 10 downtown sites are located in economically disadvantaged and minority neighborhoods. Dayton's comprehensive city development plan identified the tooling and machine industries as potential suppliers of more than 5,600 new jobs. To meet this demand, the city created a concept known as "Tool Town" that concentrates tooling and machining companies, support services, and training opportunities on redeveloped brownfields sites. Dayton will initially target a 3 5-acre former automobile factory as the first stage of Tool Town's development. The abandoned factory is in a prime location near the Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 09/01/1998 Amount: $200,000 Profile: The Pilot targets an abandoned 35-acre former automobile factory located in the downtown area for cleanup and redevelopment as part of the city's Tool Town concept. 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/R5Brownfields) Grant Recipient: City of Dayton,OH (937)443-3670 Objectives Dayton will use its Pilot funding to assess and plan for the cleanup of the former automobile factory for the Tool Town redevelopment project. The Pilot will also develop a plan to encourage community involvement in Pilot activities through a series of public meetings. A Brownfields Resource Team, which supports the city's Brownfields Redevelopment Authority, will coordinate Pilot activities. Activities The Pilot has: • Compiled an inventory of 10 brownfields and targeted the Harrison Division site, a former automobile factory. The Pilot is: • Completing environmental assessments of the targeted site; United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-01-034 Jun 01 ------- downtown area, existing businesses, a community college, transportation routes, and a potential work force, but suspected environmental contamination at the site has hindered redevelopment. • Developing cleanup plans for the site; • Identifying potential funding sources for future cleanup and redevelopment; and • Facilitating public forums to encourage community involvement and obtain input from affected neighborhoods on environmental concerns and redevelopment plans for the targeted site. A total of $450,000 in redevelopment funding has been leveraged to date for the Tool Town concept. The Dayton Tooling and Machining Association provided $250,000, and the U.S. Congress provided Dayton with $200,000. 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 c Environmental anri Fmpflpn™ EPA 500-F-01-034 _ . . and Emergency . _. Protection Agency Response (5105T) Jun 01 Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- |