W5 Brownfields 1997 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet Chicago, IL 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 Region 5 has selected the City of Chicago as a Regional Brownfields Pilot. The west side of Chicago is characterized by mixed residential and industrial land uses. Abandoned industrial properties have created economic blight and hampered redevelopment. In 1993, representatives from the Chicago Departments of Environment, Planning and Development, Buildings, Law, and the Mayor's Office came together to develop a strategy for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of the City's brownfields. The City developed a three-pronged initiative based on this strategy. The Brownfields Forum is a broad-based public/private policy group including real estate developers, industrialists, bankers, lawyers, representatives from local, State, and Federal government agencies, environmental advocates, and community groups. Between December 1994 and June 1995, over 130 people attended a series of working meetings, developing 65 recommendations for promoting brownfields redevelopment. Forum participants formed project teams and implemented some of the recommendations including regulatory changes, influencing regional planning, involving communities and promoting pollution prevention. Also during this time period, the Brownfields Sites Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 05/13/1997 Amount: $200,000 Profile: The pilot will target brownfields sites located on the City's west side. 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 Chicago,IL (419)435-7789 Objectives The objective of this brownfields pilot is to continue the successful work begun by the City of Chicago in two important ways. The brownfields pilot will: assess the responsiveness of environmental and economic redevelopment policies devised by the City of Chicago; and develop a stakeholder participation process for three brownfields redevelopment sites. Activities Activities planned as part of this pilot include: Chicago Brownfields Forum Evaluation • Performing interviews with Forum participants to assess implementation and effects of the 1995 Action Plan; and • Recording and assessing accomplishments of the Forum's workgroups to better define future redevelopment goals. Stakeholder Participation Process • Coordinating with the City's Department of United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-97-116 May 97 ------- Program invested less than $1 million to investigate, clean up and prepare five sites for private redevelopment. The City worked with community and business groups and local, State and Federal officials which resulted in private capital investment of over $5.2 million and the creation of over 100 jobs. The Brownfields Economic Analysis studied a critical connection between economic research, public policy, and the practice of brownfields redevelopment. Research performed by economists at the University of Illinois at Chicago discovered that urban sprawl primarily benefits suburban employers, who are being subsidized by taxpayers and commuters. Environment and the Department of Planning and Development to develop brownfields site specific information including site histories, environmental problems, anticipated redevelopment, and interactions with community members; • Interviewing stakeholders to determine concerns with sites, levels of participation desired, and concerns relating to the cleanup and redevelopment process; and • Developing and implementing a stakeholder participation plan for each site. 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-97-116 j. i- a ancl Emergency .. Protection Agency Response (5105T) MaV97 Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- /r^. Brownfields 1997 Supplemental Assessment IW * Pilot Fact Sheet % City of Chicago, IL 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 awarded the City of Chicago supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Several areas of Chicago are characterized by mixed residential and industrial land uses. Abandoned industrial properties have created economic blight and hampered redevelopment. In 1993, Chicago established the Chicago Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative to revitalize the city's abandoned and contaminated properties. The Initiative currently manages about 26 sites and is comprised of an interdepartmental team of project managers from the city Departments of Environment, Planning and Development, and Law. The city's success in returning contaminated and/or abandoned sites to productive use is demonstrated through a number of ongoing redevelopment projects. For example, it was recently announced that a $190 million minority-owned television studio will be built on a former dump; and a plastics molding factory, which will employ 600 people, will be developed on another abandoned site. Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 03/01/2000 Amount: $100,000 Profile: City of Chicago, IL. The Pilot will support Chicago's successful brownfields program through supporting environmental assessments at approximately 25 brownfields sites throughout the city. 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 Chicago,IL (312)744-9139 Objectives The objective of this brownfields pilot is to continue the successful work begun by the City of Chicago through supporting additional environmental assessments at brownfield sites. More than 100 potential additional brownfield sites exist and will be evaluated based on access and control, estimates of cleanup costs, and property value. Most of these areas have received special designations (model industrial corridors, planned manufacturing districts, and tax increment financing districts). To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to: • Conduct environmental assessments at approximately 25 priority brownfield sites throughout the city; • Facilitate industrial and commercial redevelopment at abandoned industrial sites; and • Continue to draw on a variety of funding United States c Environmental anri Fmpflpn™ EPA 500-F-00-007 nil- a ancl Emergency . __ Protection Agency Response (5105*0 Apr°° Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- mechanisms for assessments and other activities necessary to redevelop brownfield sites. The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change. 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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