SEFft
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Solid Waste
And Emergency Response
(5401G)
EPA510-F-00-015
October 2000
www.epa.gov
Underground  Storage

Tanks  And  Brownfields  Sites

                                                             CALIFORNIA/Oakland
EPA's USTfields Initiative will fund pilots in Brownfields communities to assess and clean up petroleum contamination from
federally-regulated underground storage tanks (USTs) at idle or abandoned commercial properties. Petroleum contamination is
generally excluded from coverage under the  Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA) and is not, therefore, covered under EPA's Brownfields Program. In its USTfields Pilot Program, EPA's Office of
Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) has selected 10 state/local pilots in which the state will partner with a local area to assess
and/or clean up two or more petroleum-impacted underground storage tank sites.  Each pilot state will receive up to $100,000 of
LUST Trust funds to be used to assess and clean up the local area sites.  This will help to ready them for future reuse.
BACKGROUND

EPA selected the State of California as an USTfields
Pilot. California will choose underground storage
tank sites in the City of Oakland to benefit from
USTfields funding.  Oakland is a recipient of a
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot and a
Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund grant. The
potential sites are among the many idle or
abandoned petroleum-impacted brownfields sites
where cleanup cannot be funded through the
Brownfields program. In response to this problem,
EPA, in  partnership with the City of Oakland and the
State of California, previously created the Oakland
Urban Land Redevelopment (URL) program in an
effort to facilitate the assessment  and cleanup of
petroleum-impacted underground  storage tank
sites. This pilot will help further that effort.
OBJECTIVES

USTfields funding will be used to assess sites for
petroleum contamination, including MTBE
contamination, and to clean up prospective sites in
support of the Urban Land Redevelopment
program.  Once sites are cleaned up under this
pilot, the Urban Land Redevelopment program will
create a partnership with local  developers and
businesses to return the sites to productive use.
                               Oakland,
                               California
                                                         Region 9
                            Applicant Name: California

                            Local Partner: City of Oakland

                            Date of Selection: October2000

                            Profile: The state will assess and clean up former
                            underground storage tank sites and will then
                            coordinate with the Oakland Urban Land
                            Revelopment prog ram to plan for future reuse of
                            the sites.
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                                                 Contacts:

                                                 EPA Region 9

                                                 Matt Small
                                                 (415) 744-2078

                                                 April Katsura
                                                 (415) 744-2024
                                             California State Water
                                             Resources Control Board

                                             Liz Haven
                                             (916) 227-4351
                                                 For further information, go to www.epa.gov/oust/
                                 EPA USTfields INITIATIVE
    EPA and the state have not yet negotiated the Cooperative Agreement to fund this pilot; therefore, activities are subject to change.

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