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. ------- 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 Official Business Penalty for Private Use $300 ------- |