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Brownfields 1998 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet

Cleveland, 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 selected the City of Cleveland for a Brownfields
Pilot. This Pilot award was preceded by the Cuyahoga
County Brownfields Pilot of the greater Cleveland area.
Due to the efforts of the Cuyahoga County Brownfields
Working Group, there is now growing interest and
activity in redeveloping older portions of the city. The
City of Cleveland will build on the Cuyahoga County
Pilot's successes and continue revitalization efforts
through a new Pilot project on the west side of the city.

The target area is located in a region that represents
one-fifth of the city's total manufacturing employment
base. Of the households in this region, 27 percent have
annual incomes less than $10,000, and unemployment
has reached 12 percent as the manufacturing base
continues to erode. The Pilot will focus its efforts on two
areas: the Stockyards neighborhood and the
Western-Elmwood-Berea area.

Pilot Snapshot

Date of Announcement: 09/01/1998
Amount: $200,000

Profile: The Pilot will focus its efforts on an area
that represents one-fifth of the city's total
manufacturing employment base.

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 Cleveland,OH
(216) 664-2406

Objectives

A primary objective for the city is to create at least 10
new jobs for every brownfield acre redeveloped. As a
first step in this effort, Pilot funding will be used to
assess environmental contamination on seven sites
within the targeted area. From these initial
investigations, the Pilot expects to develop cleanup and
redevelopment plans for approximately three of these
sites. The Pilot will conduct community outreach
activities to inform residents in brownfields
communities about Pilot activities and to solicit their
input.

Activities

The Pilot has:

•	Formed a working group of a variety of
stakeholders, including city, county, state,
developer, and neighborhood representatives;

•	Compiled an inventory of 16 brownfields
properties; and

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•	Compiled an inventory of 16 brownfields
properties; and

•	Developed an ABP web site to serve as an
information resource about Pilot activities; and

The Pilot is:

•	Performing Phase I and II environmental
assessments on seven priority sites;

•	Holding community outreach meetings designed
to update affected neighborhoods about Pilot
activities and to solicit residents' input; and

•	Developing site cleanup and redevelopment
feasibility plans.

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
Protection Agency
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