EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower States, communities, and
other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely
clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or
perceived contamination and an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA plans to fund at least fifty
Brownfields Pilots in 1995 and 1996, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and
demons trabonsof brownfields solutions. The Pilots are intended to provide EPA, States,Tribes, municipalities,
cind communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods to promote
a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
United States	Office of	Publication: XXXX.X-XXXX
Environmental Protection Solid Waste and
Agency	Emergency Response	July 1995
$ EPA Brownfields Pilot -
Sacramento, CA
Office of Outreach and Special Projects (5101)	Quick Reference Fact Sheet
OVERVIEW
EPA has selected the City of Sacramento for a
Brownfields pilot. Sacramento, a aty of 370,000
people, has experienced growth in the past decade
that far outpaces that of other California cities of
similar size. Nevertheless, significant amounts of
land within Sacramento's developed urban areas
remain underutilized because of contamination
Sacramento is home to at least four brownfields: two
of which are former railyards listed as California
Superfund sites, and two contaminated military
bases that were recently closed. A third Sacramento
base is included in the most recent Base Closure list
which was accepted by the President in July.
Sacramento's recent growth has bypassed these
brownfields areas and is leading to the development
of prime agricultural land in surrounding areas.
OBJECTIVES
This pilot intends to develop innovative
environmental and redevelopment programs which
will form the foundation of a substantial Brownfields
redevelopment program for the City of Sacramento
It also seeks to build community involvement m the
cleanup process and to encourage reinvestment in
brownfields by dispelling inaccurate perceptions
that often stigmatize the sites. The pilot plans to
work with lenders and developers to identify
deterrents for redevelopingbrownfields and to create
solutions to both the real and perceived problems.
The lessons learned from the interaction between the
City of Sacramento and the lenders and developers
will provide guidance which willbeshared nationally
with local governments on how to facilitate cleanup
and redevelopment and how to initiate similar
dialogue in other areas.
AcrrvrriES
Activities planned under this pilot include:
•	Developing a cooperative process among
the Federal or State cleanup agencies, the
local government, and the community that
incorporates local land use objectives at the
commencement of the cleanup planning
process;
•	Creating a cleanup and economic
redevelopment program that specifically
addresses issues unique to brownfields; and
•	Developing a streamlined, automated land
use permitting process and monitoring
system that geographically overlays
environmental information onto land use
maps and will be used to guide cleanup
planning.

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The cooperative agreement for this pilot has not yet
been negotiated; therefore, activities described in
this fact sheet are subject to change.
CONTACTS
Tom Mix
U.S. EPA - Region 9
(415) 744-2378
PrHjrMiinMfT^T
City of Sacramento
(916) 264-5738
SEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency (5202 G)
Washington, DC 20460
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