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News

• RACER Trust Formation Announced

Important Links

• Map of Auto Legacy Sites
• RACER Trust
• U.S. EPA Targeted Assessment grants
• U.S. EPA Targeted Cleanup grants
• Ohio EPA Targeted Brownfield Assessments
• Clean Ohio Brownfield Funds

What We Do

• Clean Ohio Brownfield Fund
• Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund
• OWDA Brownfield Loan Program
• Brownfield Action Plan Pilot Program
• Job Ready Sites
• Alternative Stormwater Infrastructure Loan Program
• Ohio New Markets Tax Credit
• Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit
• Local Government Innovation Fund
• Ohio Hubs
• Auto Legacy Initiative

What is the Auto Legacy Initiative?

Since 1980, approximately 40 automotive plants with more than 50 million square feet of buildings, have closed in Ohio, including the GM Harrison Delphi plant in Dayton (shown above). While the General Motors, Delphi, and Chrysler bankruptcies accelerated this trend, Ford has also closed a number of facilities in recent years. All areas of Ohio have experienced the loss of jobs and taxes, and the burden of these often unused or underutilized places.

This concerted effort by the State of Ohio creates attractive incentive packages to remove environmental liabilities and help repurpose these properties for new jobs and economic development. The Auto Legacy Initiative:

• Creates a single point of contact to address often complex regulatory and financing issues associated with remediating and reusing automotive sites;
• Works with communities to provide a roadmap and technical assistance for addressing environmental issues at the site;
• Works with developers and end users to explain the different environmental cleanup regulations;
• Coordinates with researchers to include Ohio sites in research and data analysis to ensure they are part of the regional and national dialogue on auto industry issues;
• Works with RACER Trust Project Manager to ensure that remedial activities are designed to produce greater economic opportunities; and
• Facilitates collaboration with federal and state regulatory agencies to address regulatory requirements and accomplish remediation goals.

The Creative Technology Accelerator building, part of the Dayton Tech Town campus, was constructed on the site of the former GM Harrison Delphi plant.

Available funding