This action approves funding in the amount of $300,000 to the 79TH street corridor neighborhood for brownfields activities

This $300,000 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 supports brownfields activities in the 79th Street Corridor neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Under the EPA's Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.818), the 79th Street Corridor Neighborhood Initiative Inc. will inventory, characterize, assess and develop cleanup planning for brownfield sites. Specific deliverables will include site assessment reports, technical documents and a community involvement plan. The funding aims to ready properties for redevelopment and create jobs and leveraged funding. Awarded October 1, 2021, the project concludes September 30, 2024 and targets an area designated as a Community Redevelopment Area and Opportunity Zone to benefit local residents.

Such activities to be performed may include inventory, characterization, assessment, and development of cleanup planning and community involvement related events for brownfield sites in the city of miami, florida. Anticipated deliverables and expected outcomes for this project will include site assessment reports, other technical reports, and a community involvement plan. More specifically, outcomes may include jobs and leveraged funding, and properties made ready for reuse. Brownfields are real property, the expansion, development or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. The target area for this grant is the 79TH street corridor (census tract 10.04) in downtown miami near the port. The residents of census tract 10.04, which is a community redevelopment area (CRA) and is designated as a federally qualified opportunity zone, empowerment zone and enterprise zone, are the intended beneficiaries of this project.