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Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, 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 has selected the Toledo-Lucas County Port
Authority for a Brownfields Assessment Pilot. The port
authority has targeted brownfields sites in the City of
East Toledo's waterfront Marina District. East Toledo
(population 35,000) is an economically disadvantaged,
predominantly African-American community situated on
the eastern bank of the Maumee River in northwestern
Ohio. Once an industrial, commercial, and transportation
hub for the Great Lakes region, Toledo has experienced a
substantial decline in its middle-class population over the
last several decades due to a decline in industry.
Consequently, the city and its environs, including East
Toledo, have witnessed a dramatic increase in poverty,
property deterioration, and abandonment. The port
authority will focus on four specific abandoned or
underused properties with land use histories that include
rail lines, a steel mill, an oil refinery, a construction and
demolition debris/stockpiling facility, a marina, and a
coke oven gas line.

East Toledo's industrial and commercial decline has
severely impacted the local community. Approximately
25 percent of East Toledo's population live in poverty,
and 72 percent are minorities. Median income in most of
East Toledo's census tracts is less than 80 percent of the
median income of the City of Toledo as a whole. East

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Pilot Snapshot

Date of Announcement: 05/01/2002
Amount: $200,000

Profile: Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, Ohio.
The Pilot targets four abandoned or underused
properties along East Toledo's waterfront for
redevelopment into an entertainment, residential, and
commercial complex.

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/Toledo-Lucas
County Port Authority,OH
(419) 243-8251 ext 139

Objectives

The port authority's long-term objective is to clean up
the waterfront of East Toledo and redevelop the land
into an entertainment, residential, and commercial
complex. As part of this objective, the Pilot will remove
the uncertainty associated with the extent of
contamination at four key sites so that cleanup may
proceed within the framework of the state's voluntary
action program. The port authority will also establish
effective community involvement activities throughout
the process, making a particular effort to involve
low-income, minority populations that might otherwise
not become involved.

Activities

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Conducting soil and groundwater sampling as

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part of a Phase II environmental site assessment
at the four targeted sites;

•	Conducting confirmatory soil sampling to
identify any areas that exceed the cumulative risk
cleanup standard established during the Phase II
environmental site assessment;

•	Completing the reporting requirements of the
Ohio voluntary action program;

•	Conducting groundwater monitoring; and

•	Conducting community forum meetings to
address environmental concerns and
environmental justice issues.

The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change.

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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