Brownfields 2022 Assessment Grant Fact Sheet

j- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

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. The Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002, as amended by the
Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development
Act of 2018, was passed to help states and communities around
the country clean up and revitalize brownfield sites. Under this
law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through five competitive grant programs: Multipurpose Grants,
Assessment Grants, Revolving Loan Fund Grants, Cleanup
Grants, and Environmental Workforce Development and Job
Training Grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to
state and tribal response programs through a separate
mechanism.

Assessment Grant

$1,998,725

EPA has selected the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for a
Brownfields Community-wide Assessment Grant for States and Tribes.
Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 16 Phase I and 16
Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to
develop four reuse plans, six cleanup plans, and two area-wide plans and
to support community outreach activities. The target areas for this grant
are the City of East Cleveland, the Village of Bellaire, and the Village of
Newcomerstown, which are small, distressed communities in eastern
Ohio. Priority sites include three parcels of vacant land that were former
automobile repair shops, a former railroad yard, a former dry cleaner, and
a former manufacturing site that now houses vacant structures and
concrete slabs.

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)886-5740

EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/r5)

Grant Recipient: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, OH
(614)644-2295

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

Land and
Emergency
Management (5105T)

EPA-560-F-22-211
May 2022

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