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I JBt | Brownfields 2006 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet
Toledo and Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, OH
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 Toledo and Toledo-Lucas County Port
Authority was selected to receive two brownfields
assessment grants. Toledo (population 313,619) is an
older industrial city in northwestern Ohio with
approximately 200 brownfields sites, in addition to the
city's abandoned gas stations. The vast majority of these
commercial and industrial sites are located in the city's
Brownfield Impact Area (BIA), an area that is home to
nearly 38 percent of Toledo's residents. Twenty-six
percent of residents in the BIA live in poverty, and the
unemployment rate in the BIA is approximately ten
percent. Residents currently located in the BIA are
increasingly becoming elderly or chronically unemployed
or underemployed. As a result, many local businesses
have closed or relocated. Assessment and eventual
cleanup of the BIA's dilapidated and vacant commercial
and industrial properties will help facilitate
redevelopment of the brownfields properties, improve
public health, and enhance the environmental quality of
the area. Revitalization of the BIA will provide
employment opportunities to neighborhood residents,
raise property values, and boost the local tax base.
Assessment Grants
$200,000 for hazardous substances
$200,000 for petroleum
EPA has selected the City of Toledo and
Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority for two
brownfields assessment grants. Hazardous
substances grant funds will be used to conduct
community outreach activities, perform Phase I
and II environmental site assessments, and prepare
cleanup plans for sites in the Brownfield Impact
Area of the city. Funds also will be used to
investigate and evaluate the impacts of exposures
on at-risk populations and to monitor institutional
controls at given sites. Petroleum grant funds will
be used to perform the same tasks at sites 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 5 Brownfields Team
(312) 886-7576
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfiel ds)
Grant Recipient: City of Toledo/Toledo-Lucas
County Port Authority,OH
(419) 936-3757
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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Environmental	anri Fmpflpn™	EPA 560-F-06-136
Protection Agency	Response (5105T)	May 2006
Washington, DC 20450	Kesponse (si us )

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