O - Brownfields 2022 Revolving Loan Fund Grant Fact Sheet

Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating 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.

Revolving Loan Fund Grant

$1,000,000

EPA has selected the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency for
a Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Coalition Grant. The grant
will be used to capitalize a revolving loan fund from which the Northeast
Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency will provide loans and subgrants to
support cleanup activities. Grant funds also will be used to support
community outreach activities. RLF activities will focus on Ashtabula
Township, the City of Cleveland, the City of Lorain, the Village of
Chippewa Lake, and the Village of Middlefield. Priority sites include the
1,000-acre Ashtabula Lakefront property, the former Chippewa Lake
Amusement Park, a former foundry and heavy metal processing site, and
a former rubber processor. The Agency's coalition member is the
Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium.

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: Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, OF!
(216) 242-2414 ext 308

Hie 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-22-210
May 2022

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