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Tucson, AZ
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 City of Tucson was selected to receive two
brownfields assessment grants. Tucson (population
486,699) contains an approximately 15.6-square mile
federally designated Empowerment Zone (EZ) with
nearly 48,000 residents. When compared to the rest of
the city, the EZ has twice the concentration of minority
residents and more than twice the city's unemployment
rate. Seventy percent of households in the zone are
low-income, and the median household income is 40
percent lower than that of surrounding areas. The EZ
contains several brownfields sites, including former gas
stations, dry cleaners, auto repair facilities, abandoned
warehouses, railroad facilities and various spurs, and
vacant/abandoned inner-city structures, businesses, and
motels. They are dispersed throughout the zone and, in
some cases, occupy large portions of otherwise
valuable land. Assessment of these sites will facilitate
the implementation of the master plans developed for
the area that include mixed-use developments,
greenspace/open space, and alternative transportation
throughout the Empowerment Zone.
Grant Fact Sheet
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the City of Tucson for two
brownfields assessment grants. Grant funds will be
used to develop an inventory and prioritize
properties, conduct approximately 1,000
environmental transaction screens, and perform
Phase I and II environmental site assessments at sites
throughout the city's Empowerment Zone (EZ).
Funds also will be used to track and manage the data
gathered using a geographic information system
database. Petroleum funds will be used to perform
the same tasks at sites in the EZ with potential
petroleum contamination.
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 9 Brownfields Team
(415) 972-3091
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region9/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Tucson, AZ
City of Tucson
(520) 791-5414
City of Tucson
(520) 791-5414
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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