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Brownfields 2005 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Yonkers Industrial Development Agency, NY
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
The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency was
selected to receive a brownfields assessment grant. The
target property, the Patclin Chemical site in the City of
Yonkers, a federally designated Empowerment Zone, has
recently been abandoned by its owner. It is a key site in
Yonkers' (population 196,086) plans to redevelop the
Alexander Street waterfront area. The waterfront district
includes approximately 30 sites over a contiguous 50-acre
area adjacent to the Hudson River. The community
immediately affected by conditions in the waterfront
district consists of four census tracts with a total
population of 15,595. The tracts encompass both the
waterfront area and the residential neighborhoods that
stretch several blocks inland. The poverty rate for the
four-tract area is 30 percent, and unemployment is triple
the national average. Forty-seven percent of area residents
are African-American, and 40 percent are Hispanic. Once
the Patclin site has been investigated and cleaned up, the
property and two adjacent sites will be redeveloped into
new housing. The construction project itself will create
many well-paying jobs that will be accessible to
community residents. The new residential population will
help support growth in the local retail area. In addition,
the new housing will increase the tax base, creating
revenues for the city to spend on education, economic
development, and social programs.
Assessment Grant
$44,378 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the Yonkers Industrial
Development Agency for a brownfields
assessment grant. Grant funds will be used to
prepare a work plan, perform site investigations,
develop remediation plans, and conduct
community involvement activities at the Patclin
Chemical site on Alexander Street along the
Hudson River waterfront.
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 2 Brownfields Team
(212) 637-4309
EPA Region 2 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region02/br ownfields/)
Grant Recipient: Yonkers Industrial Development
Agency,NY
(914) 377-6619
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
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-05-076
May 2005

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