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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 Cuyahoga County Planning
Commission (CPC) as its first Brownfields Pilot in
September 1993. To date, the CPC brownfields project
has leveraged an additional $3.2 million to support
environmental cleanup and property improvements at the
Pilot site. Payroll tax base improvements alone have
netted over $ 1 million for the local government, and
more than 170 new jobs have been created.
Pilot Fact Sheet
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 09/01/1993
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets regulatory, economic, and
community organization efforts at three contaminated
sites.
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: Cleveland, OH
CPC
(216) 443-3716
Tri-C
(216) 987-4327
Objectives
The CPC's objective has been to focus cleanup
decisions on future reuse of the site and ensure that
decisions about cleanup and redevelopment are
consistent with the needs and expectations of the
community. The CPC has garnered input and assistance
from lending institutions, developers, regulatory
agencies, and the community to ensure a holistic,
coordinated approach. CPC's strategy involves all
parties that have a stake in the redevelopment and
provides each of them with an opportunity to
communicate their concerns and help develop solutions.
This includes ensuring that minorities and economically
disadvantaged people actively participate in the
brownfields efforts.
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Activities
The Pilot has:
•	Selected three sites for redevelopment: the Sunar
Hauserman site; the Mid-Town Corridor site; and
the Collinwood Railyard site;
•	Performed three site assessments; and
•	Worked with the Cuyahoga Community College
(Tri-C), a community/business task force, to
insure broad participation and input in the
brownfields effort. This task force will be a key
link to ensure that Cleveland has the trained
workforce needed to assess, clean up, and
redevelop contaminated properties.
The Pilot is:
•	Performing a final review of the draft
community manual prepared by the Community
Strategies Team; and
•	Developing a GIS system to support brownfields
redevelopment decision-making. This tool will
provide organizations and individuals with
up-to-date information which many communities
across the country already provide for economic
development and marketing for local properties.
Experience with the Cleveland Pilot has been a catalyst
for related activities including the following.
•	Under the auspices of the Cleveland Pilot, the
Sunar Hauserman property has become a
successful demonstration site. $4.2 million has
been leveraged for environmental cleanup and
property improvements after the bankruptcy of
the original site owners. The site is now home to
several new businesses which provide 181 jobs,
income and revenue generation of more than $ 1
million per year, and approximately $ 1 million
dollars in property improvements. The property
has changed ownership and the new owner has
begun cleanup activities which will consist
primarily of soil vapor extraction and
groundwater remediation. A "comfort letter"
from EPA Region 5 provided the assurance to
make this activity possible.
•	Working with the Cleveland State University
(CSU), which received a two-year grant to
support the creation of a Brownfields
Redevelopment Finance Center which will
develop models and strategies for resolving
brownfields issues in EPA Region 5.
The Cuyahoga County Council developed a revolving
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loan fund for site assessments. The fund will generate
money for the redevelopment of brownfields within
Cuyahoga County and possibly be used as a model
throughout the State of Ohio.
•	Tri-C is developing programs to provide trained
and capable workers to support the
redevelopment of brownfields. Efforts are
underway to recruit local minority residents into
these programs.
•	Tri-C held a forum to discuss the risks posed by
brownfields as part of its outreach efforts.
•	The City is assisting the Tri-C in developing a
high school curriculum on environmental issues
to encourage interest and awareness among
students.
•	The City and Tri-C are conducting outreach
activities to recruit minorities and other citizens
to provide information to environmental justice
neighborhoods.
•	The Mid-Town corridor site has been expanded
and now covers an area which includes over 200
parcels. Future uses of the area include food
processing, light and heavy manufacturing, and
service sector businesses.
•	Phase I audits have been completed at over 150
parcels done in large part by Ohio EPA with
EPA Site Assessment financial support. Phase II
field work is scheduled for summer/fall 1997.
•	The Collinwood Railyard site is a joint
County/City effort that will transform an idle
Conrail property into a commercial/retail center
on Cleveland's northeast side. Ohio EPA is again
providing technical assistance through the
Region's Site Assessment mechanism.
•	In August 1996, CSU released survey results of
municipal industrial land capacity within various
cities in the Region that could be developed as
brownfields. The survey results were reported at
a symposium organized by the University.
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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