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The City of South Bend proposes to use Cleanup Grant funds to remove, to the extent that is practicable, COCl from source areas. Source removal will promote monitored attenuation of down gradient (i.e., relatively dilute) portions of the aquifer. Based on the experience of the City's consultant, and considering local hydrostratigraphy and the relatively limited dimensions of the source areas, the City believes that in-situ chemical oxidation that employs a Fenton -like reaction would provide permanent and cost- effective removal of organic COCs in groundwater source.areas. The City would supplement remediation by establishing institutional control sprohibiting extraction of groundwater at the Site for potable use or uses that could result inhuman contact. To the extent possible, the City will also create an ordinance,thaf prohibits -use of groundwater for all purposes other than for non -contact industrial applications: -Finally, the City would monitor attenuation of dissolved organic COCl following removal of the source areas. It is anticipated that removal of the source areas will result in short-term elimination of the ground -to -indoor -air volatilization pathway. Furthermore, in combination with institutional controls, the remedial effort will eliminate human, health exposures, and thus the above listed health effects, related to ingestion or contaetwith contaminated groundwater. 2. The City does not believe that activit es described in -B. I.- will affect the environment. The source areas are located beneath a former automobile manufacturing facility in an industrial portion of the City. No sensitive ecological receptors`were identified on or surrounding the Site during previous environmental site assessments. The contemplated remedial technology will be focused on small areas (ie:, the source areas) and.does not result in production of toxic compounds. While out -gassing of carbon dioxide occurs during the chemical oxidation process, pressure build-up is unlikely due to the relatively uniform sand and gravel deposits that make up the unsaturated zone and aquifer beneath the site -Furthermore; the area in which"chemical oxidation would be applied is currently vacant, as is the rest of the former"stampingplant property. 3. Information regarding the populations surrounding the site was obtained online from the =. US. Census Department. The database indicates that the site lies within Census Tract area 0027.00. Within this census, tract,area, the total population is 1,422 with an average 'household income of $28,047;'Children are presumably represented within the above population: Approximately 27.5% of the households in the tract fall below the poverty line. Of the total populaiion;approximately 48% are minority with a large population of Hispanics "(44%) ''fi > -: ;✓;,: 4. Funds provided by the grant will remove health threats to sensitive populations as described in B.1 (above). In a general sense, the funded remedial activities are expected to improve the welfare of sensitive populations to the extent that these activities. promote redevelopment of the Site and provide work opportunities to underemployed sectors of the local residents. M