w5 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 United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-98-210 Jul 98 ------- 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. United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 and Emergency Response (5105T) Solid Waste EPA 500-F-98-210 Jul 98 ------- w5 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 limi+c +hf=* linhilrftr rvwm pre nf nrrmp»rtip»c 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 United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-02-098 May 02 ------- 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. United States c Environmental anri Fmpflpn™ EPA 500-F-02-098 j. j.- a ancl Emergency .. __ Protection Agency Response (5105T) MaV02 Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- |