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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;
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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.
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