EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfield sites. 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 Job Training Grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
$500,000
EPA has selected the City of Cincinnati for a Brownfields Assessment Grant. Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 12 Phase I and eight Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to prepare four cleanup plans and to develop and maintain a GIS-based brownfield site inventory. The target area for this grant is the City of Cincinnati with a focus on the Beekman Avenue and Spring Grove Avenue Corridors. Priority sites include a former valve foundry that contains a vacant 154,000-square-foot foundry and valve manufacturing building built in 1908; a 5-acre site used to dump foundry sand since the 1970s; and two former manufacturing facilities with multiple vacant buildings.