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Brownfields 1998 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
Toledo, 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 has selected the City of Toledo for a Brownfields
Pilot. Toledo has one of the largest railway centers in the
country and the fourth largest port on the Great Lakes.
Like many older cities in the Midwest, Toledo has seen
its factories abandon downtown locations for suburban
greenfields. The empty buildings and vacant lots within
the City have created health and safety risks and lowered
the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods. Toledo
has identified more than 100 priority brownfields sites
that have a negative impact on the City's communities.
The presence or fear of environmental contamination in
current and former industrial areas has been a deterrent
to industries seeking development and expansion
opportunities. Thus, the steady decline of Toledo's
population over past 25 years is partly attributable to a
lack of employment opportunities. Two-thirds of the
commercial/industrial real estate transactions conducted
in the City are encumbered by questions about properties'
environmental status. Twenty-five percent of the
property transactions conducted over the previous year
were aborted because of contamination concerns. In
addition, Toledo's unemployment rate is 10% higher than
the State of Ohio's as a whole, and the median household
income in the City's brownfields neighborhoods is 25%
lower than the State's median income.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 07/01/1998
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot will prioritize and then target
several sites for redevelopment from an inventory of
more than 100 contaminated properties or properties
with suspected 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 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-7576
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Toledo, OH
(419) 936-3729
Objectives
Toledo plans to use Pilot funding to gather more
information (e.g., previous use, level of contamination)
on known and suspected brownfields sites; re-establish
the Brownfields Group, a committee composed of
public and private agencies that sets cleanup and land
use goals; and leverage additional funding sources for
brownfields redevelopment activities. The Pilot will also
conduct community outreach activities in the affected
neighborhoods to ensure that residents are represented in
the decision-making process.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Prioritizing sites from the City's inventory of
more than 100 contaminated properties or
properties believed to be contaminated, and
creating a complete brownfields inventory of
known and suspected contaminated sites to more
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fully characterize redevelopment potential;
•	Conducting assessments on those prioritized sites
from the City's existing inventory;
•	Re-establishing the Brownfields Group; and
•	Conducting community outreach activities for
each brownfields site so that the needs of local
residents will be considered.
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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Brownfields 1998 Supplemental Assessment
Pilot Fact Sheet
City of Toledo, Ohio
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 Toledo supplemental assistance
for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot.
Like many older cities in the Midwest, Toledo has seen
its factories depart from their downtown locations,
leaving behind vacant buildings that have created health
and safety risks and lowered the quality of life in
surrounding neighborhoods. The city has experienced a
steady decline in population over the last 25 years. In
addition, Toledo's unemployment rate is 10 percent
higher than the statewide average, and the median
household income in the city's brownfields
neighborhoods is 25 percent lower than the statewide
median income.
While the city has been successful with industrial and
commercial redevelopment, residential redevelopment of
brownfields sites has not been common. This
supplemental grant will be used to continue assessment
work on a complex of derelict properties. One of the
properties to be assessed is the former Doehler Jarvis
manufacturing facility. This site, which is in a
low-income minority neighborhood, is being considered
for a planned residential housing project. The grant also
will be used to support the expansion of Toledo's Urban
Setting Designation (USD) to other brownfields areas.
The Urban Setting Designation is a state designation that
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/01/2002
Amount: $150,000
Profile: City of Toledo, Ohio. Toledo will use the
supplemental assistance to conduct assessments and
remediation planning for the Doehler Jarvis site and
to expand Toledo's Urban Setting Designation.
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 Toledo, OH
(419) 936-3757
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Objectives
The first objective of the supplemental assistance is to
conduct a Phase II site assessment and remediation
planning for the 12 parcels comprising the 13-acre
Doehler Jarvis site. The city anticipates developing 80
affordable single-family homes on this site. A Phase I
assessment of this older industrial area was conducted
as part of the original Pilot. The Pilot's second objective
is to compile the information necessary to expand
Toledo's USD in order to facilitate additional
brownfields redevelopment
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Conducting a Phase II environmental site
assessment of the Doehler Jarvis site;
•	Conducting community outreach and public
involvement activities; and
•	Collecting and compiling information for the
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over shallow groundwater that has been contaminated
from past industrial land uses. As long as it can be shown
that there are no potential exposures to contaminated
shallow groundwater, the law helps promote future
development of brownfields without jeopardizing
protection of public health or the environment.
expansion of Toledo's Urban Setting
Designation.
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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